Mushkin Atlas 480GB SSD Review – Performance Meets Capacity In The Ultra World

ANVIL STORAGE UTILITIES PROFESSIONAL (BETA)

You may not see this for long (and its definitely not common) but you get a freebee simply for reading!  Over the last little while, we have been assisting with beta testing new benchmark software called Anvil Storage Utilities which is an absolutely amazing SSD benchmarking utility.  Not only does it have a preset SSD benchmark, but also, it has included such things as endurance testing and threaded I/O read, write and mixed tests, all of which are very simple to understand and utilize in our benchmark testing.

Anvil Storage Utilities seems to highlight the low IOPS results that are well below the specifications of 78,000 IOPS.  AS these results demonstrate oFill or highly compressible data testing, they are better than we have seen in AS SSD and the Crystal DiskMark result while testing in highly incompressible data.

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 the tests are complete. The simulations are as follows:

• Windows Defender In Use
• Streaming Data from storage in games such as Alan Wake which allows for massive worlds and riveting non-stop action
• Importing digital photos into Windows Photo Gallery
• Starting the Vista Operating System
• Home Video editing with Movie Maker which can be very time consuming
• Media Center which can handle video recording, time shifting and streaming from Windows media center to an extender such as XBox
• Cataloging a music library
• Starting applications

MUSHKIN ATLAS 480GB MSATA VANTAGE RESULTS

In testing the Atlas 480GB SSD in PCMark Vantage HDD Suite, we were able to reach a Total Point Score of 65248 with a high transfer speed of 400MB/s while testing in Media Player.  In checking out the individual results of each test, transfer speeds reached the SATA 3 level in 5 of 8 tests.

This chart provides a hierarchy of all mSATA SSDs tested to date and is based ONLY on the PCMark Vantage SATA 3 results.  No other benchmarks have been incorporated into these results, although they typically fall in line.