RunCore Pro V SSD review Part 2 of 3

Sun, 22/08/2010 - 10:29

Benchmarks

Fort he Benchmarks i used some common tools to measure the overall performance.

- ATTO
- HD Tune Pro
- HD Tach
- AS SSD
- CrystalDiskMark

ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.34

„The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously. Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.

- Transfer sizes from 512KB to 8MB
- Transfer lengths from 64KB to 2GB
- Support for overlapped I/O
- Supports a variety of queue depths
- I/O comparisons with various test patterns
- Timed mode allows continuous testing
- Non-destructive performance measurement on formatted Drives"

The first screenhot is showing you a performance, when you don’t set the right allignment on the SSD. the performance is poor: only 170MB/s write and 270MB/s read:

But when you set the allignment right you’ll get a stunning performance:

Allign 16k:

Allign 32k:

Allign 64k:

HD Tune Pro V 4.01

„HD Tune is a hard disk utility with many functions. It can be used to measure the drive's performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S.M.A.R.T.), securely erase all data and much more. HD Tune Pro gives us accurate read, write and access time results and for the last couple of years has been gaining popularity amongst reviewers. It is now considered a must have application for storage device testing.“

HD Tach V 3.04

„HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), 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 possible.“

As you can see from the HD Tach benchmark results, the RunCore SSD beats even a RAID 0 out of 2xWDC Raptor HDDs.

AS SSD V 1.5.3784.37609

"AS SSD Benchmark is especially developed for Solid State Drives. The benefits of this benchmark:

- Good precision of results
- Simplicity of use
- Optimized for SSD
- Screenshot-function"

32k not alligned:

Allign 16k:

Allign 32k:

Allign 64k:

Allign 128k:

Allign 512k:

It’s all about the right allignment of your SSD. if there was no allignment, i got only 17MBps read and 12MBps write 4K blocks. the performance increased to 54Mbsp in write. When your SSD is set up right you’ll get nearly 32.000 IOps in read and 24.000 IOps in write. This is a performance no HDD can reach at all.

CrystalDiskMark V3.0

„CrystalDiskMark is a benchmark tool for disks. Features:

- Measure sequential reads/writes speed
- Measure random 512KB, 4KB, 4KB (Queue Depth=32) reads/writes speed
- Select test data (Random, 0Fill, 1Fill)
- Theme support
- Multi-Language support“

Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 219.138 MB/s
Sequential Write : 99.100 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 209.401 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 101.954 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 20.160 MB/s [ 4921.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 60.750 MB/s [ 14831.6 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 117.689 MB/s [ 28732.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 86.862 MB/s [ 21206.6 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [R: 0.1% (0.1/186.3 GB)] (x5)

OS : Windows Vista Business Edition SP2 [6.0 Build 6002] (x86)

next: RunCore Review Part 3 (Apple Tests, Verdict)

previous: RunCore Review Part 1 (Introduction, Look&Feel)

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