Our feature picture depicts the new Samsung PM800 mSATA 128GB SSD as it sits on top of our new Samsung 9 Series laptop. A few months ago, we reviewed the Samsung 470 Series 256GB SSD and were the first to identify it as a top tier SSD. The results and review did so well that Samsung as well as other …
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Samsung PM800 128GB mSATA SSD Review – Test Bench and Initial Tests
TEST SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY This is The SSD Review Test Bench and a quick click on the photo will bring it up full size for closer inspection. Our main goal in testing is to ensure that all test results are as accurate as they can be and no anomalies slip through. We conduct all tests three times and, if necessary, …
Read More »Samsung PM800 128GB mSATA SSD Review – Crystal Diskmark and AS SSD Testing
CRYSTAL DISKMARK X64 VER 3.0 Crystal confirms our ATTO benchmarks and goes one step further by showing the excellent and all important low 4kb random write transfer speed of 52MB/s. I wonder how this will fare against the Intel 310 mSATA SSD we reviewed a few weeks back? AS SSD DISK BENCHMARK VER. 1.5 AS SSD Disk Benchmark is perhaps …
Read More »Samsung PM800 128GB mSATA SSD Review – HDTune Pro Testing
HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 BENCHMARK READ AND WRITE HDTune Pro is a great software program that lets us have a look at all aspects of testing through several separate tests: HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 FILE BENCH HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 RANDOM HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 EXTRAS Pg1 – Introduction Pg2 – Test Bench and Initial Tests Pg3 – Crystal and …
Read More »Samsung PM800 128GB mSATA SSD Review – PCMark Vantage and Conclusions
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 …
Read More »Crucial M4 512GB SATA 3 SSD Review – Top Tier Performance at an Unmatched Price
Our review today is going to focus on the Crucial M4 512GB SSD and the most noteworthy thing about this SSD needs to be said right off. At under $1000, it sells for almost half of that of competitor new generation SATA 3 SSDs and its performance easily ranks it amongst the best in Gen 2 top tier 6Gbps solid …
Read More »Crucial M4 512GB SATA 3 SSD Review – Test Bench and Protocol
TEST SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY This is The SSD Review Test Bench and a quick click on the photo will bring it up full size for closer inspection. Our main goal in testing is to ensure that all test results are as accurate as they can be and no anomalies slip through. We conduct all tests three times and, if necessary, …
Read More »Crucial M4 512GB SATA 3 SSD Review – ATTO Disk Benchmark and Crystal Diskmark
ATTO DISK BENCHMARK 2.46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is perhaps one of the oldest benchmarks going and is definitely the main staple for manufacturer performance specifications. For our testing, 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. Manufacturers prefer this method of testing as it …
Read More »Crucial M4 512GB SATA 3 SSD Review – AS SSD Benchmark
AS SSD BENCHMARK VER. 1.5 AS SSD Disk Benchmark is perhaps the only benchmark program that was created for solid state drives. AS SSD does a good job of showing us that the drive betters Crucials listed specifications of 50,000IOPS. Two other results also stand out, the first of course being the great 4k random results that we discussed earlier. …
Read More »Crucial M4 512GB SATA 3 SSD Review – HDTune Pro Tests
HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ BENCHMARK READ AND WRITE HDTune Pro is a great software program that lets us have a look at all aspects of testing through several separate tests: HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ FILE BENCH HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ RANDOM HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ EXTRAS There is nothing much more that can be said here …
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