OCZ Vertex Limited Edition, SandForce Powered SSD

Simpli Software's HD Tach is described on the company's web site as such: "HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives, flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device being tested."

HD Tach v3
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OCZ Vertex LE

 


Micron RealSSD C300 (SATA 3G)

 


Intel X25-M Gen 2


OCZ Vertex


In HD Tach testing, the OCZ Vertex LE showed anything but variance in its graph plot across the volume.  The drive chalked up slightly better write performance at 234MB/sec on average versus its 222MB/sec for reads.  Again, the Vertex LE drops in just ahead of the Micron drive in write performance and just behind it for read bandwidth.

David Altavilla

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Dave Altavilla is the founder, Editor In Chief and Publisher of HotHardware.com. With decades of experience as a semiconductor sales engineer, Dave Altavilla founded HotHardware.com over 25 years ago. Dave is also a published contributor to various technology-based publications and is a featured Tech Analyst expert on various network media shows. 

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