Intel SSD 510 Series 120GB Crystal Disk Mark Performance on SATA2 SATA3 RAID0 Linus Tech Tips
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·2011-05-08
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so today I actually have something pretty interesting to show you guys I
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recently did my unboxing of the Intel SSD 510 series a code name Elm Crest SSD
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and I've actually got some results for you guys so this video is going to focus
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on crystal dismark which is a pretty wellestablished uh dis benchmarking tool
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these days and I've benchmarked a variety of different configurations for
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the purpose of finding out a couple of things this is a synthetic Benchmark
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okay so bear in mind that the result to not necessarily always comparable from
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one drive to another and it's not always necessarily an indication of real world
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performance but I wanted to find out in a synthetic Benchmark how a single 510
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series SSD compares to two 510 series ssds as well as how using the
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onboard SATA 3 6 gbit per second Port
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versus using the onboard SATA 2 3 gbit per second ports affect the performance
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of this drive so I'm going to walk you guys through this one by one here we
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have a single drive with uh SATA 3 6
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gbit per second you can see here that the right speeds are largely unaffected
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by the uh The Wider uh data bus however
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the read speeds especially these sequential results are well mostly the
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sequential results are significantly higher if you give it a pipe that's
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twice as wide to move the data through so that's uh that's how the performance
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compared as far as single Drive goes
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okay so then we've got our dual Drive configuration so here I've configured it
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in raid Zero running off the integrated SATA 3 6 GB per second controller on my
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p67 motherboard you can see right here
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that the sequential read scale incredibly well this is the best results
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I've seen out of a two Drive configuration for straight reads ever
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we're up near a 1 gbyte per second read
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speed sequential and we're over 400 megab per second right speed so it's
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phenomenal ever you can see here that once again WR speeds are largely
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unaffected by the larger datab bus and it's mostly the read speeds especially
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once again sequential that are going to benefit from that larger datab bus the
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reason for that is that when you're writing reading and writing more complicated data it becomes more
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controller bound and less Bound by the
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actual uh by the actual interface itself
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so just as points of comparison I have included results with these dual 510
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series ssds running off an LSI 9268 I RAID controller card these are
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the best results that I was able to obtain with the raid card over here so
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you can see that there are slight differences actually here I'm going to
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move this window over so you can compare them a little bit more easily between
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the onboard raid and the raid cards particularly uh in the 512k sequential
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results right here uh everything else is pretty close although we did manage to
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get better 4K reads but actually slower 4K r rights now that was with a fair
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amount of tinkering around with the settings but I'm sure as the firmware
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gets updated on these on the high-end RAID controller cards and as the
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community Tinkers around with them and finds out how to get the most
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performance out of a 510 series SSD we're probably going to see better
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results I've also included the results from a Revo Drive X2 240 gig so that's
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what I've actually got on the test bench down here right now and you can see that
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sequentially bearing in mind we're using random data with Crystal mark this time
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around so sandforce is at a bit of a disadvantage here but you can see that
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sequentially it is not as strong of a performer as two 120 gig SSD 510 series
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drives however when you look at the high
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load random reads and wrs it absolutely
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destroys the Dual 510 series SSD setup
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so it's all about what kind of workloads you're going to be using and thank you
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for checking out my video on the crystal Mark performance of the Intel sist d510
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