Toughbook SSD thread

I figured we would have some fun and post some speed tests on some SSD's we have in our Toughbooks to compare all in one thread. This isn't a install guide or a tweak guide. Just posting what we are using and what we got for results.


To keep this even we will need to use this software.

Bootracer 4.6
CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.2.2012



Please post in this format, Pictures are optional.

TOUGHBOOK: CF-U1 MK1

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO (32bit)

DISK: SAMSUNG 16GB 1" SSD (ATA5) MCBQE16G \ MPP-M1A

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 5.8

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.2.2012:

SEQ: 53.86 READ / 31.94 WRITE
512K: 52.79 READ / 7.071 WRITE
4K: 8.992 READ / 0.132 WRITE
4K QD32: 16.48 READ / 0.141 WRITE

START UP SPEED: (NOT TESTED YET)


TOUGHBOOK: CF-T7 MK1

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO SP1

DISK: INTEL X25 G2 40 GB SSD

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 7.7

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.2.2012: (TOUGHBOOK IS AT HOME, WILL UPDATE)

SEQ: READ / WRITE
512K: READ / WRITE
4K: READ / WRITE
4K QD32: READ / WRITE

START UP SPEED: Having issues running program, coming soon)


TOUGHBOOK: CF-19 MK3

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO SP1 (32 bit)

DISK: INTEL X25 G2 160 GB SSD

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 7.2

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.2.2012:

SEQ: 133.1 READ / 90.17 WRITE
512K: 120.0 READ / 90.76 WRITE
4K: 8.363 READ / 22.28 WRITE
4K QD32: 90.81 READ / 78.90 WRITE

START UP SPEED: 28 seconds to desktop (bootracer)


PICTURES:


CF-U1 MK1




CF-T7 MK1


CF-19 MK3

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-19 MK5

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO

DISK: INTEL 320 600 GB SSD

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: unkown

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.2.2012:

SEQ: 261.8 READ / 219.2 WRITE
512K: 174.1 READ / 199.8 WRITE
4K: 18.33 READ / 33.60 WRITE
4K QD32: 134.6 READ / 106.1 WRITE

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-53 MK1

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO (64bit)

DISK: Kingston HYPER X 3K 240GB

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 5.9

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.2.2012:

SEQ: 456.7 READ / 234.9 WRITE
512K: 402.4 READ / 221.6 WRITE
4K: 26.39 READ / 46.42 WRITE
4K QD32: 198.4 READ / 233.0 WRITE

START UP SPEED: 18 Seconds (BootRacer)

 

bootracer was 17 seconds

 

I am going to download boot racer and try that out. Any other software you think would be good for comparing?

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-53 MK1

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO (64bit)

RAM: 8GB Samsung

SSD: Intel 320 160GB (SSDSA2BW160GL)

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 5.9

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.2.2012:

SEQ: 255.0 READ / 167.9 WRITE
512K: 171.4 READ / 164.1 WRITE
4K: 18.01 READ / 30.82 WRITE
4K QD32: 140.1 READ / 93.61 WRITE

START UP SPEED: 15.5 Seconds (BootRacer)

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-74 Mk3

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO 32 bit

DISK: INTEL x25 40 GB

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 5.9

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.2.2012:

SEQ: 180.1 READ / 42.08 WRITE
512K: 153.9 READ / 42.54 WRITE
4K: 18.28 READ / 31.80 WRITE
4K QD32: 112.8 READ / 40.84 WRITE

START UP SPEED:12 seconds to log on / 19 seconds to desktop

 

I just added the link to http://forum.notebookreview.com/pan...sting-ultimate-toughbook-resource-thread.html

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-74 Mk4

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO 32bit

DISK: INTEL x25 80 GB

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 7.2

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.2.2012:

SEQ: 139.8 READ / 72.76 WRITE
512K: 127.4 READ / 47.55 WRITE
4K: 18.13 READ / 21.73 WRITE
4K QD32: 97.67 READ / 42.55 WRITE

START UP SPEED:17 seconds to log on / 26 seconds to desktop

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-19 Mk1

OS: WINDOWS XP PRO 32bit

DISK: INTEL x25 40 GB

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: Non - using XP

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.2.2012:

SEQ: 135.2 READ / 40.02 WRITE
512K: 120.5 READ / 43.54 WRITE
4K: 11.55 READ / 19.86 WRITE
4K QD32: 75.32 READ / 42.85 WRITE

START UP SPEED:15 seconds to log on / 35 seconds to desktop

(Didn't have this unit back in my hands much, It was just to fix the sound that quit, (turned off in advanced settings) I did some software updates as well. The test was run on battery.) ( XP has been running a year on this 19 Mk1 and the SSD still shows no degrading still shows 100% and it is used daily as a web browsing pc, 1814 power on times, 1292 hrs run, 1.39tb host writes according to Crystal disk Info.)

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-S10 MK2

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO (64bit)

DISK: Intel SSDSC2CT240A4 240GB

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 7.8

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.3 x64

SEQ: 260.0 READ / 237.9 WRITE
512K: 236.6 READ / 226.3 WRITE
4K: 14.19 READ / 28.12 WRITE
4K QD32: 177.9 READ / 189.8 WRITE

START UP SPEED: Windows boot: 9 sec / desktop: 8 sec / total: 17.39 sec.

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-74 MK4

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO (64bit)

DISK: Intel SSDSA2M160G2GC 160GB

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 7.2

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.3 x64

SEQ: 137.8 READ / 91.47 WRITE
512K: 126.8 READ / 92.22 WRITE
4K: 16.51 READ / 32.10 WRITE
4K QD32: 105.1 READ / 79.69 WRITE

START UP SPEED: Windows boot: 13 sec / desktop: 8 sec / total: 21.973 sec.

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-74 MK2

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO (32bit)

DISK: Intel SSDSA2M080G2GC 80GB

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 7.2

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.3

SEQ: 138.3 READ / 80.65 WRITE
512K: 128.0 READ / 83.18 WRITE
4K: 17.50 READ / 30.66 WRITE
4K QD32: 104.9 READ / 75.76 WRITE

START UP SPEED: Windows boot: 12 sec / desktop: 13 sec / total: 25.455 sec.

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-52 MK2

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO (64bit)

DISK: Intel SSDSA2M160G2GN 160GB

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 7.2

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.3 x64

SEQ: 139.8 READ / 91.62 WRITE
512K: 128.6 READ / 92.76 WRITE
4K: 16.75 READ / 27.88 WRITE
4K QD32: 106.1 READ / 67.83 WRITE

START UP SPEED: Windows boot: 17 sec / desktop: 10 sec / total: 27.056 sec.

 

It is not in the Ultimate Toughbook Resource Thread, the link to this thread takes you to a blank page. I had to search, using your 'TEST' search, to locate this thread. FYI.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/pan...mlNew to SSD's. Well check out the below link

Above is the link in the resource thread, it's just broken the words "New to SSD's well click the below link" added to it" Blair can have this cleaned up quick when he gets on.

 

Once I get home from work I will fix it. Smart phones are not the best on fixing stuff like that.

 

No worries. Like I said, FYI.

Going to post results for a couple CF-19, later today.

Thanks.

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-19 MK3

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO (32bit)

DISK: Intel SSDSC2CT180A4 180GB

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 3.1

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.3

SEQ: 135.1 READ / 130.4 WRITE
512K: 129.1 READ / 128.1 WRITE
4K: 13.54 READ / 28.70 WRITE
4K QD32: 84.89 READ / 0.531 WRITE

START UP SPEED: Windows boot: 11 sec / desktop: 12 sec / total: 23.859 sec.

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-19 MK4

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO (32bit)

DISK: Crucial M4-CT128M4SSD2 128GB

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 3.5

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.3

SEQ: 207.4 READ / 176.4 WRITE
512K: 189.5 READ / 172.5 WRITE
4K: 12.62 READ / 19.26 WRITE
4K QD32: 183.5 READ / 160.0 WRITE

START UP SPEED: Windows boot: 10 sec / desktop: 10 sec / total: 20.757 sec.

 

TOUGHBOOK: CF-M34 Mk7

OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO (32bit)

DISK: Samsung 64GB

WINDOWS 7 EXPERIENCE SCORE: 4.9

CRYSTAL DISK MARK 3.0.3

SEQ: 30.53 READ / 30.03 WRITE
512K: 30.25 READ / 3.304 WRITE
4K: 11.78 READ / 4.840 WRITE
4K QD32: 12.94 READ / 0.432 WRITE

START UP SPEED: Not checked yet.

 

Why on earth is this thing so slow in it's SSD?? is it almost full?

 

umm...I need a tiny bit more info..

 

It's a 1.8" SSD attached to a 2.5 IDE male x 1.8" SATA female adapter. So it's on a IDE channel, Once I get more tweaks done I will do it again and update my first post about it as needed. More about that computer on TBT in the CF-M34 section. It's part of a project of running some of these adapter in older toughbooks to see how they run speed wise.

 

CF-M34 MK7

OS : WINDOWS XP PRO

INSTAL DATE: SEPTEMBER 2010 (YES)

DISK : SAMSUNG MCAQE32G5APP 32 GB SLC Parallel ATA UDMA/66
POWER ON COUNT : UNKNOWN

BOOT TIME (GLARY UTILITIES) : 24 SECONDS

:

 

Toughbook CF-30mk3

4gb ram

60gb OCZ drive

OS: Windows 7 pro. 32 bit

Windows experience score : 3.4

This is the US Navy mk3 with bios pass,I have done nothing to tweak it,just tossed a drive I had into it.



Boot time 34 seconds by Glary.

 

Toughbook: CF-52MK1

OS: Windows 7 Pro 32 bit

Disk: Intel 530 Series 180GB SSD

Windows 7 Experience Score: 7.7 for the SSD

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3

Seq: 255.6 Read / 222.5 Write
512K: 230.7 Read / 219.1 Write
4K: 15.75 Read / 31.38 Write
4K QD32: 155.1 Read / 137.2 Write

Start up speed (BootRacer 4.6): Windows boot:13 sec. Desktop: 6 sec. Total: 19.9 sec

 

CF-19 MK2

OS: Vista (from recovery CD, only for testing purpose...)

Windows experience score: 3.0

SSD: SanDisk EXTREME II 120GB

Boot Time (Glary Utilities): 30 sec

 

Since Ador posted this link in another thread... I thought I would put in some info I recently ran across. I've bought several SSDs over the past few days for different builds. I used to use the Samsung 840EVO, Kingston 300 or Kingston HyperX. While comparing prices between Newegg and Amazon I ran across the reviews on Amazon. Apparently the Kingston SSDs have dropped off VERY sharply in quality over the past 6-8 months. They are starting to pile up terrible reviews! Just FYI...

 

My choice is Samsung
It's a pity we don't have mSATA slot

 

Samsung is good in my book, Intel is proving to be really good as well. Sandisk is still new, but still looking good in my very limited experience.

Had some corsairs force lately that where almost DOA. Had 5 of them, 3 of them where dead within the hour. Some firmware thing, but not user repairable. Send the lot back and got some Sandisk Extreme III's back. Worked nice, and even 10 bucks cheaper!
I have had really bad experience with OCZ vertex. Can't remember 2 or 3, but ordered 3 and 2 where DOA, third died within weeks. All of them exchanged at the time for Samsungs, never had any problem with those.

 

Yup... All I buy is the Samsung 840 EVO now. I just used my last Kingston in my wife's CF-52M build. I'll keep tabs on it...

 

I have had my Kingston Hyper X for a little over a year and no problems at all but I have been buying Samsung from Newegg these last few months but only because of the price.

 

I put a Samsung 500GB SSD in my CF-30 build (at the forum's recommendation) and have had zero issues with it so far. I did follow a link from here to a site about optimizing SSD's and followed about 2/3 of the recommendations. I have about 100GB filled so far.

 

Same CF-53 a year later. Boot times have slipped to around 17 sec.
Just put in a new Samsung 840 EVO 250GB (Thanks, Rob!) and re-tested.

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
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Sequential Read : 486.955 MB/s
Sequential Write : 472.686 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 437.633 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 363.188 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 29.403 MB/s [ 7178.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 48.493 MB/s [ 11839.0 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 394.501 MB/s [ 96313.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 305.714 MB/s [ 74637.2 IOPS]
OS : Windows 7 Professional SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)


BIG increase in performance with this 840 EVO, sequential writes about tripled! Boot time was varying 15-19 seconds at first with the new 840 EVO, then I used Samsung Magician to optimize system settings and now getting solid 15's. Samsung setup it's own power profile so I changed back to Panasonic power saver and boot times seem the same.

Then I setup "Over Provisioning" using Magician with the recommended setting of 10% and selecting the Reliability option. Rebooted and re-ran CDN:
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
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Sequential Read : 504.608 MB/s
Sequential Write : 478.510 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 450.137 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 343.795 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 30.071 MB/s [ 7341.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 51.441 MB/s [ 12558.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 392.317 MB/s [ 95780.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 297.164 MB/s [ 72549.8 IOPS]
OS : Windows 7 Professional SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

Most of the scores improved a few percent with OP, although Random Write 512 slipped a few. Overall a very impressive drive especially considering that Panasonic probably slowed down the sata interface on this 53 for heat control and/or reliability (?) as they are prone to doing

 

Toughbook: CF-30MK3

OS: Windows 7 Pro 32 bit

Disk: Samsung 470 256GB

Windows 7 Experience Score: 7.1 for the SSD

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3

Seq: 152.8 Read / 149.5 Write
512K: 151.7 Read / 143.3 Write
4K: 12.71 Read / 29.98 Write
4K QD32: 87.1 Read / 83.2 Write

Start up speed (BootRacer 4.6): Boot time to full function: 28 seconds. This figure is very variable as we all have a different # of programs starting up at boot.

Considering the SSD is a tad shy of 4 years old I can't complain.

 

I use Samsung 850 too but today I got this emailed: https://blog.algolia.com/when-solid-state-drives-are-not-that-solid/

"
Broken SSDs:

• SAMSUNG MZ7WD480HCGM-00003
• SAMSUNG MZ7GE480HMHP-00003
• SAMSUNG MZ7GE240HMGR-00003
• Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series
  recently blacklisted for 8-series blacklist
• Samsung SSD 850 PRO 512GB
  recently blacklisted as 850 Pro and later in 8-series blacklist

Working SSDs:

• Intel S3500
• Intel S3700
• Intel S3710

 

Same problem here - tried two OCZ Vertex drives and one was DOA and the second failed very quickly. Went with Sandisk Ultra in the end - the price was good and performance has been impressive (How well it stacks up against other SSD's, I'm not sure).

 

Looks like Intel's blog )
Just bought 500GB Samsung 850 Evo at Amazon. USD 180.

 

See my new post for more information on this issue. 840s apparently not affected. http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/alert-for-ssd-optimizers.777431/
CAP

 

I first started off with Intel way back when. I currently have 5 Samsungs running everyday that have never let me down. Fingers crossed!


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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OBRE5UE?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
USD 162,16 for 500GB Samsung 850 EVO.
Works in SATA 3 mode on CF-19 MK5.

 

That's a good price. I paid almost that for my Samsung 250GB when I got my CF-53.

 

Hey, folks!

Sorry for necro-posting here.
"Rocking" a CF-53mk2 here. After installing an SATAIII capable SSD I notice that this toughy only uses SATAII [3gb/s] capabilities, whereas the chipset has SATAIII built in.
Is this by design in the CF-53 [energy consumption, what have you...], or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!!

 

No necro posting, this is one of the threads we keep up from time to time to put what speeds we got from the toughbook on here for others to compare to theirs.

You guessed it the speed is locked down by the factory. I don't have that exact model to compare but maybe someone else does. Run crystal disk mark and post your score up. If you don't want to install the program there is a portable version.

 

FYI, some Disk Mark results of PassMark Performance Test 8.0 in MegaByte/second

CF-19mk6 with Samsung 850Pro on Win7 gets these results:
194,9MBs SeqRead, 182,4MBs SeqWrite, 115,7MBs Random RW

CF-19mk3 with Samsung 830 on Win8.1 gets these results:
80,3MBs SeqRead, 84,9MBs SeqWrite, 73,8MBs Random RW

 

Hi there!

Getting speeds typical for SATA2 on a CF-53 mk2. HDD is a SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD 240GB.

@Springfield I wonder how you're attaining those results in CDM. Those are SATA3 not SATA2 speeds. Was there a bios update in the meantime?

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CrystalDiskMark 5.1.0 x64 (C) 2007-2015 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 284.822 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 268.079 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 81.895 MB/s [ 19993.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 72.901 MB/s [ 17798.1 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 261.125 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 251.837 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 22.905 MB/s [ 5592.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 26.101 MB/s [ 6372.3 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [C: 13.4% (29.9/222.8 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2015/12/29 12:49:30
OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 10586] (x64)

 

CF-54
Samsung SSD 850 Pro 512GB