OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD Performance Preview
Test System SANDRA Physical Disk Tests
Our Test Methodologies: Under each test condition, the SSDs tested here were installed as secondary volumes in our testbed, with a standard spinning hard disk for the OS and benchmark software installations. The SSDs were left blank without partitions wherever possible, unless a test required them to be partitioned and formatted, as was the case with our ATTO, Vantage, and CrystalDiskMark benchmark tests, as well as one of the IOMeter runs. Windows firewall, automatic updates and screen savers were all disabled before testing. In all test runs, we rebooted the system and waited several minutes for drive activity to settle before invoking a test.
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Motherboard - Video Card - Memory - Audio - Hard Drives -
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Hardware Used: Intel Core i7-970 Intel DX58SO2 (X58 Chipset) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 6144MB Kingston DDR3-1333 Integrated on board WD Caviar Black 1TB (OS Drive) OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480GB PCIe LSI WarpDrive 300GB PCIe OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB PCIe OCZ RevoDrive 120GB PCIe OCZ IBIS 240GB HSDL Fusion-io ioDrive 160GB Fusion-io ioXtreme 80GB PCIe OCZ Z-Drive R4 1.6TB PCIe |
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Relevant Software: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Intel 9.1.1.1025 DirectX 11 NVIDIA GeForce, latest WHQL Benchmarks Used: IOMeter 2010 ATTO v2.46 CrystalDiskMark v3.1 PCMark Vantage SiSoftware Sandra 2011 HH Custom File Transfer Tests |
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For our first set of tests, we used 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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