Crystal marks with various harddisk

Just to compare different harddisk benchmark on SSD VS conventional HDD. Like my brother said. quite disappointed with IBM SSD, even it is on RAID1. I didn't expect to such a low read rating.

1) Corsair F120 (Office Lenovo T60)
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 121.083 MB/s
Sequential Write : 75.293 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 119.235 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 76.361 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 18.575 MB/s [ 4534.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 11.695 MB/s [ 2855.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 22.952 MB/s [ 5603.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 12.871 MB/s [ 3142.4 IOPS]

Test : 50 MB [C: 75.9% (38.6/50.9 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/10/26 13:16:43
OS : Windows XP Professional SP3 [5.1 Build 2600] (x86)

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2) IBM 3650 M3 2x50GB SSD RAID1
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 111.642 MB/s
Sequential Write : 60.382 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 108.101 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 61.762 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 15.088 MB/s [ 3683.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 9.180 MB/s [ 2241.1 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 37.132 MB/s [ 9065.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 10.547 MB/s [ 2574.8 IOPS]

Test : 50 MB [C: 19.8% (5.8/29.3 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/11/01 2:34:41
OS : Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 [5.2 Build 3790] (x64)

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3) IBM 3650M3 6x500GB 6Gbps SAS RAID10
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Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 285.645 MB/s
Sequential Write : 88.399 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 72.458 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 49.955 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 1.710 MB/s [ 417.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.608 MB/s [ 148.4 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 11.542 MB/s [ 2818.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 5.325 MB/s [ 1300.0 IOPS]

Test : 50 MB [E: 0.0% (0.1/166.0 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/11/01 2:42:14

OS : Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 [5.2 Build 3790] (x64)

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4) Samsung PM800 SSD (Alienware M17-R2)

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo



Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 204.268 MB/s
Sequential Write : 130.096 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 160.274 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 98.873 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 12.273 MB/s [ 2996.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 5.159 MB/s [ 1259.6 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 26.074 MB/s [ 6365.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 5.852 MB/s [ 1428.6 IOPS]

Test : 50 MB [C: 35.1% (43.3/123.1 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/11/03 8:53:18

OS : Windows 7 [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)

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As you all can see the result of benchmark, SSD really performs better even in non-RAID environment. Of course RAID10 read rating is really good, i should say the random 512k for RAID10 non-SSD is another nice figure to see. but comparing 4KB, Cosair wins the battle. while on 4kKB QD, IBM SSD takes the lead. Random 512K. We have samsung SSD taking the lead.

Personally I believe the hardware setup and also OS configuration impact alot on the result. As corsair has claimed they can reached about 285 MB in read sequential. But result of benchmark shows differently. Even at their own blog, they have a comparison of crystal mark too. Both Corsair and samsung SSD are running on laptop while RAID1 and RAID10 are running on server configuration. They only thing I wish to test on is having 2 SSD running on RAID1 and RAID0. Perhaps I should put in 2x samsung SSD for the final testing.