today I've got a pretty interesting video for you guys this is featuring the
Intel SSD 510 series
SSD anyway I ran some PC Mark Vantage
benchmarks on these particular ssds I actually ran them with an Intel p67
motherboard so I've got a few different configurations to show you first of all
I ran single drive on the SATA 36 gbit
per second controller as well as on the SATA 2 3 GB per second controller and
the objective of that was to demonstrate how much of a performance Advantage you
get by pairing this SSD up with a proper SATA 3 6 GB per second controller versus
running it on an older Legacy SATA 2 controller I also ran the two Drives
together in raid zero again in both configurations so on both different
speed controllers to see what kind of a performance benefit we get from jumping
from one SSD to two ssds uh just as a
point of comparison I compare the onboard raid against an LSi 926 8i raid
card um which I believe is configured optimally but I'm not actually an expert
at configuring The Raid bio so I'm sure as the community plays around with these
more they will find ways to eek more performance out of it and also for
context I've compared these two ssds against an ocz Revo Drive X2 to 40 gig
so that's going to show us what four sand Force drives so that is 4 60 gig
sand Force drives essentially in raid zero will be able B to do against these
all right so you can come in close here and have a look but basically I'll we'll
go we'll go from by column so the First Column here is our single drive
performance and you can see that we actually gain 30% performance going from
a SATA 2 3 GB per second connection to a
SATA 3 6 GB per second connection now when we actually go down to the hard
drive Suite results we can see which applications are really making use of
this extra bandwidth so there's certain things that actually don't get nearly as
much benefit as others so when you're talking small files okay so such as
adding music to Windows Media Player you're not going to see as huge a
performance benefit as when you look at much bigger files like say for example
video editing using Windows Movie Maker so basically the larger the files are
and the more sequentially we're reading from them or writing to them the more
benefit we're going to get from that wider interface so as we move over here
I'm just going to bring these back up to show you guys the total scores as we
move over we find our raid zero results so you can see that on the SATA 2
connection we actually get more benefit from raid Zero versus on the SATA 3
Connection and I guess the reason for that would be that what we're doing when
we add raid zero is we are doubling the amount of bandwidth available although
we're doubling the number of drives so certain things are going to be less
bottlenecked and certain things are going to be equally bottlenecked so
let's have a look at where the SATA 3 6
GB per second interface is really able to pull away from the slower interface
and there aren't as many huge examples of that but you look
at video editing again so that's where you're looking at a huge performance
benefit from The Wider interface okay
Vista startup once again gets a lot of benefit actually I'm going to scroll
down over here and let's see how much Vista start up yeah so that one actually
didn't improve much from the sing Drive configuration H
interesting okay so let's move over let's have a look at our raid Card
results so here we can see that it
actually doesn't score as high as the onboard raid okay but some of the
results here are actually better so you can see here Windows Defender actually
performed significantly better than the onboard raid we're talking on the order
of about 15% better so the reason for
that I would spe calculate based on the crystal dis Mark results that we saw
before is that the onboard the onboard
RAID controller doesn't perform as well as the dedicated RAID controller in
random reads and writes gaming once again the dedicated RAID controller
absolutely blows away the onboard in fact many of these results are
significantly better than the onboard raid the only reason that we're seeing
this low overall score seems to be that Windows Media Center doesn't perform
nearly as well on the dedicated raid card so that's something to bear in mind
when you're looking at the overall results where you see the onboard raid
just destroying well you know hundreds of dollars dedicated RAID controller so
let's move on down here to the revo Drive X2 once again we see a very low
overall score but as we move down and
try it here you know what I'm going to move this one next to it or above it so
that we can have an easier point of comparison so this is the revo Drive X2
this is 2 510s on the board RAID controller because that's sort of the
configuration I'd consider most likely we see that there oh okay that won't fly
okay we see that the revo Drive X2 actually does outperform the Dual 510s
in some applications but there are others where it just gets demolished
such as the video editing uh Benchmark where yeah there's absolutely no
comparison but you look at some things like application loading as well as the
antivirus test and it actually outper performs it so that probably again also
reflects the better performance that the revo Drive X2 has in random uh heavy
usage scenarios versus the Dual Drive
config so thank you for checking out my PC Mark comparison uh of the Intel SSD
510 against itself on a SATA 2 versus a
SATA 3 interface as well as a couple other points of reference for us don't
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