so today I actually have something pretty interesting to show you guys I
recently did my unboxing of the Intel SSD 510 series a code name Elm Crest SSD
and I've actually got some results for you guys so this video is going to focus
on crystal dismark which is a pretty wellestablished uh dis benchmarking tool
these days and I've benchmarked a variety of different configurations for
the purpose of finding out a couple of things this is a synthetic Benchmark
okay so bear in mind that the result to not necessarily always comparable from
one drive to another and it's not always necessarily an indication of real world
performance but I wanted to find out in a synthetic Benchmark how a single 510
series SSD compares to two 510 series ssds as well as how using the
onboard SATA 3 6 gbit per second Port
versus using the onboard SATA 2 3 gbit per second ports affect the performance
of this drive so I'm going to walk you guys through this one by one here we
have a single drive with uh SATA 3 6
gbit per second you can see here that the right speeds are largely unaffected
by the uh The Wider uh data bus however
the read speeds especially these sequential results are well mostly the
sequential results are significantly higher if you give it a pipe that's
twice as wide to move the data through so that's uh that's how the performance
compared as far as single Drive goes
okay so then we've got our dual Drive configuration so here I've configured it
in raid Zero running off the integrated SATA 3 6 GB per second controller on my
p67 motherboard you can see right here
that the sequential read scale incredibly well this is the best results
I've seen out of a two Drive configuration for straight reads ever
we're up near a 1 gbyte per second read
speed sequential and we're over 400 megab per second right speed so it's
phenomenal ever you can see here that once again WR speeds are largely
unaffected by the larger datab bus and it's mostly the read speeds especially
once again sequential that are going to benefit from that larger datab bus the
reason for that is that when you're writing reading and writing more complicated data it becomes more
controller bound and less Bound by the
actual uh by the actual interface itself
so just as points of comparison I have included results with these dual 510
series ssds running off an LSI 9268 I RAID controller card these are
the best results that I was able to obtain with the raid card over here so
you can see that there are slight differences actually here I'm going to
move this window over so you can compare them a little bit more easily between
the onboard raid and the raid cards particularly uh in the 512k sequential
results right here uh everything else is pretty close although we did manage to
get better 4K reads but actually slower 4K r rights now that was with a fair
amount of tinkering around with the settings but I'm sure as the firmware
gets updated on these on the high-end RAID controller cards and as the
community Tinkers around with them and finds out how to get the most
performance out of a 510 series SSD we're probably going to see better
results I've also included the results from a Revo Drive X2 240 gig so that's
what I've actually got on the test bench down here right now and you can see that
sequentially bearing in mind we're using random data with Crystal mark this time
around so sandforce is at a bit of a disadvantage here but you can see that
sequentially it is not as strong of a performer as two 120 gig SSD 510 series
drives however when you look at the high
load random reads and wrs it absolutely
destroys the Dual 510 series SSD setup
so it's all about what kind of workloads you're going to be using and thank you
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