Let us continue with the benchmark results.
The SATA3 drives are currently tested with an ASRock 890GX Extreme3 motherboard.
At present, Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition is used as the operating system.
The SSD drive speed was examined and compared with the following benchmark software:
AS SSD Benchmark 1.4.3704.27281 – Download
ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.46 – Download
For the RAID test, first we tested as comparison a benchmark of one SSD without RAID 0 array at the RAID controller, then two SSDs were tested as RAID0 with 64KB block size at the RAID controller and then again two SSDs were tested at the RAID controller as RAID0 with 128KB block size.
In order to get a somewhat better overview, in this RAID test we skip the other benchmark tests, which we use additionally for the SSD reviews at ocinside.de.
The SSD benchmark values offers a very good reference point of the maximal possible reading and writing performance, the speed with smaller files and the respective access time.
In RAID mode the SSD reached like the previously tested SSDs in IDE mode a much slower performance as in AHCI mode.
The maximum transfer rate of the Serial ATA 2.0 interface was not exceeded with approximately 186,39 MB/s, so that a SATA3 interface would not be necessary for this benchmark.
The write performance in RAID mode reached slow 56,28 MB/s.
In comparison to this value, the Mach Xtreme Technology MX-DS Fusion 60GB reached in AHCI mode a read performance of 198,90 MB/s and a write performace of 73,24 MB/s (see Mach Xtreme Technology MX-DS Fusion 60GB single test).
So in RAID mode the MX-DS Fusion reached with these values a total score of 196 points and in comparison to this the score in AHCI mode was about 268 points.
Here is a Snipping screenshot of the AS SSD benchmark results (SATA3, 1x SSD at RAID controller):
The overall capacity of the RAID0 array remains approximately at the 2x 60 GB, thus approx. 120 GB (117,34GB with 64KB and 119,13GB with 128KB block), but the performance increases clearly and that is exactly what we wanted to reach.
In RAID 0 with 64KB block size the two Mach Xtreme Technology MX-DS fusion 60GB SSDs reached approximately a read value of 350,11 MB/s and a write value of 114,51 MB/s.
The benchmark values are thereby almost twice as high as the values of one single SSD.
As RAID 0 the total score of the two MX-DS Fusion reached with these values 333 points, in comparison to this the score of an ADATA S511 120GB in IDE mode was 311 points and in AHCI mode it was 488 points and the so far fastest Crucial m4 256GB SSD reached in IDE mode 325 points and in AHCI mode about 530 points.
Here is a Snipping screenshot of the AS SSD benchmark results (SATA3, 2x SSD at RAID controller as RAID0 64KB):
In RAID 0 with 128KB blocksize both Mach Xtreme Technology MX-DS Fusion 60GB SSDs reached a bit slower results but at a higher total capacity of 119,13 GB instead of 117,34 GB at 64 KB block size.
Here is a Snipping screenshot of the AS SSD benchmark results (SATA3, 2x SSD at RAID controller as RAID0 128KB):
In order to get an impression of the speed, here is another Snipping screenshot of the AS SSD copy benchmark (SATA3, 1x SSD at RAID controller):
Also the AS SSD copy benchmark values of both SSD in RAID 0 are nearly twice as fast as one single SSD (SATA3, 2x SSD at RAID controller as RAID0 128KB):
With the AS SSD Copy-Benchmark results is the block size of 128KB only at the ISO measurement a bit higher as one ca see on the following screenshot (SATA3, 2x SSD at RAID controller as RAID0 128KB):
The comparison of the AS SSD benchmark results is extended with each new HDD/SSD test.
Here we see several SSDs in comparison to the Mach Xtreme Technology MX-DS Fusion 60GB 2.5″ SSD in IDE mode, in AHCI mode, in RAID mode and as RAID 0 array with 64KB and 128KB block size, whereby the diagram is updated frequently with new SSDs.
Currently, the Crucial m4 256GB SSD is at the to of all result, which offered in AHCI mode also a higher performance than the RAID0 array of both MX-DS Fusion 60GB SSDs at the SATA RAID controller.
Also the Mach Xtreme Technology MX-DS Turbo 120GB SSD reached a higher total result in AHCI mode.
But the two Mach Xtreme Technology MX-DS Fusion 60GB SSD in RAID0 are much faster than previously tested SSDs in IDE mode.
Here is a comparison of the AS SSD benchmark values, which are getting updated with soon coming drives:
The ATTO disk benchmark values gives a very good overview about the write and read rate on different file sizes.
These values are maximum ratings, which are different to the previously continuous transfer rate benchmarks.
Here is a Snipping screenshot of the ATTO Disk benchmark values (SATA3, 1x SSD at RAID controller):
Both, the write performace (red) and the read performance (green) of the SSDs as RAID0 array are nearly twice as fast as the bandwidth of one single SSD at the RAID controller.
Here is a Snipping screenshot of the ATTO Disk benchmark values (SATA3, 2x SSD at RAID controller as RAID0 64KB):
Here is a Snipping screenshot of the ATTO Disk benchmark values (SATA3, 2x SSD at RAID controller as RAID0 128KB):
These ATTO disk benchmark values are compared with a small transfer size of 32KB and a large transfer size of 8192KB.
The bar chart already shows a first comparison to a Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB hard disk drive, OCZ Agility 120GB SSD, Crucial 256GB C300 RealSSD and a few other SSDs, wherat both results of the two Mach Xtreme Technology MX-DS Fusion in RAID0 reached the current top SSD results.
Here is a comparison of the ATTO disk benchmark values, which are getting updated with soon coming drives:
