BENCHMARK PROTOCOL AND THE TEST BENCH This is The SSD Review Test Bench Number One. A quick click on the photo will give you a better look. In testing, our main objective is to obtain results as pure and as accurate as possible and we want to ensure that no anomalies slip through. Simply put, we want to provide you …

CRYSTAL DISK BENCHMARK VER. 3.0 X64 Crystal Disk Benchmark is used to measure read and write performance through sampling of raw (0/1 Fill/compressible) or random data which is, for the most part, incompressible. Many new SSD owners who can’t wait to test the performance of their SSD often grab this program and run a quick test, not realizing that they …

If you were with us at Computex, you may remember that we pushed the bar just a bit by being the first technology site to do actual benchmark testing during our SSD manufacturer interviews.. I can say that some were none too impressed with the lack of advance notice and declined the opportunity while others such as Kingston, Super Talent …

PCMARK VANTAGE X64 HDD SUITE The SSD Review uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience. There are eight tests in all and the tests performed record the speed of data movement in MB/s to which they are then given a numerical score after all of …

Today’s review is on the Super Talent RC8 50 GB USB Flash Drive which just may be the most powerful flash drive on the planet.  Who would expect more from a ‘SandForce Driven’ product pushing 8 channels of NAND flash memory? Lets not confuse things though as this USB 3.0 flash drive is a solid state drive through and through.  …

Corsair announced new capacities available for its Force GT Series SSD today right on the heels of its recently release of new capacities for the Series 3 line as well. As a bit of refresher, we reviewed the GT 120GB here and the Series 3 120GB here where we detailed the difference in performance between the two through use of …

Crucial has posted a firmware update (0009)  for its M4 line which can be downloaded at Crucial.Com by M4 owners. The good news is that the firmware provides significant performance increase for all capacities of the M4 SSD and Crucial has all capacities of their M4 SSD on sale now at great prices. We initially thought this to be a …

INTERIOR COMPONENTS The Runcore T50 SATA 3 mSATA 120GB SSD is assembled on a printed circuit board (pcb) which measures 51mm x 32mm x 4mm and weighs under 30 grams.  The easiest way to understand how small this is has been depicted in the phot on the first page of this report.  It is exactly 1/3rd the size of the …

ATTO DISK BENCHMARK VER. 2.46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is perhaps one of the oldest benchmarks going and is definitely the main staple for manufacturer performance specifications. ATTO uses RAW or compressible data and, for our benchmarks, we use a set length of 256mb and test both the read and write performance of various transfer sizes ranging from 0.5 to 8192kb. …

HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 BENCHMARK HDTune is a great software program which covers all areas of our testing and does a great job of showing how capable this drive truly is. FILE BENCHMARK RANDOM TESTING EXTRAS All of the HDTune tests seem to be in order except for the ‘Sequential Outer’ result in this test above.  In most other SATA …