Next we ran SiSoft SANDRA, the the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. Here, we used the Physical Disk test suite and provided the results from our comparison SSDs. The benchmarks were run without formatting and read and write performance metrics are detailed below.
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SiSoft SANDRA 2011 |
Synthetic HDD Benchmarking |
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The upcoming OCZ Vertex 3 put up some excellent scores in the SANDRA Physical Disk benchmark. Here, only the Vertex 3 Pro managed a better read speed, but the standard Vertex 3 has the best write performance. Even when connected to a SATA II / 3G port, the Vertex 3 bests the previous-gen drives.