Samsung 470 Series 256GB SSD Review
Test System and HD Tune Pro
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Motherboard - Video Card - Memory - Audio - Hard Drives -
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Hardware Used: Intel Core i7 930 Asus P6X58D Premium (X58 Express Chipset) ATI Radeon HD 5850 6144MB Corsair DDR3-1333 CAS 7 Integrated on board Corsair Nova Series V128 128GB Intel X-25M Gen2 80GB Kingston SSDNow V Series 64GB OCZ Vertex 2 100GB Samsung 470 Series 256GB |
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Relevant Software: Windows 7 Professional Intel 9.1.1.1020 w/ Matrix Storage DirectX 11 AMD Catalyst 10.10 Benchmarks Used: HD Tune Pro HD Tach v3.0.1.0 ATTO v2.46 CrystalDiskMark v3 PCMark Vantage SiSoftware Sandra 2010 SP1 |
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The latest version of HD Tune Pro (v4.60) offers improved support for SSDs and we use it here to test both read and write performance broken up into minimum transfer rate, maximum transfer rate, average transfer rate, access time, burst rate, and CPU usage. What this does is a paint an overall picture of performance rather than zero in on just the average score. By doing so, we can see which drives might suffer from a stuttering problem or otherwise run inconsistently..
As far as HD Tune Pro is concerned, Samsung has clearly put together a formidable controller that's more than capable of holding its own next to the competition. The Samsung SSD turned in the second highest average read speed punctuated by the highest minimum transfer rate. The two DRAM chips are clearly paying dividends here, as less than 5MB/s separate Samsung's lowest and highest read rates.
There's a little bit of a bigger gap between minimum and maximum transfers when it came to writes, though still not much. And once again, Samsung didn't turn in the highest average transfer rate, but it did come awfully close and trounced the competition in minimum transfers. What this all means is that over the long haul, the Samsung drive should, in theory, perform more consistently no matter what the task.
