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    New SoliWare MLC SSD sample test - 110M/S write speed !

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by roamer, Oct 28, 2008.

  1. roamer

    roamer Newbie

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    Just got one 128G MLC SSD sample from a new local SSD vendor called SoliWare in China, and then conducted a simple test in my desktop, the testing platform as following

    M/B: ASUS P5B SE with ICH9
    1G DDR2 and Celeron 420 1.6G CPU
    WD 160G HDD in XP PRO SP3 and set the SSD as slave
    1) HD Tach full long bench for sustained transfer rate : 111M/S Wite and 104.2M/S Read Random Access Time: 0.1M/S , and it is a flat curve.
    2) ATTO Total Testing Length 256M : 114M/S and 113M/ Wite
    3) IOMeter in raw to detect the random 100% random write IOPS at 512B: the max is around 287 and avg. is around 230.

    testing results as attached
     

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  2. highlandsun

    highlandsun Notebook Evangelist

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    wow, writes faster than reads? how bizarre. Sounds like a nice drive though.
     
    highlandsun, Oct 29, 2008
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  3. amphibia

    amphibia Notebook Guru

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    It seems to me it is a typical MLC drive with normal sequential read/write speed but terrible random write and I/O speed.

    Look at the "Average I/O response time" and "Maximum I/O response time". They are not acceptable.

    But thanks for doing the test.
     
    amphibia, Oct 29, 2008
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  4. Michel.K

    Michel.K 167WAISIQ

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    Thanks for the test!

    And i must agree with amphibia. The maxmimum I/O response time should be atleast what the SSD should do at average(or even minimum) to be a really good SSD.
    HDD's has far better I/O's than that! And I/O's are the most important feature of a drive IMHO, especially if you wanna use it as an OS-disc.
     
    Michel.K, Oct 29, 2008
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