Corsair F100 Force SSD review

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SSD Performance Atto Disk Benchmark

Atto Disk Benchmark

One of the finest tools available to measure storage performance is ATTO. I love it to death as it is so reliable and produces such accurate results. The great thing about ATTO is that we can test with predefined block sizes. So we can test with a 32MB sequence of 4KB files, yet also 32MB in 1MB files. This gives us an excellent scope of overall performance with small and large files.

ATTO Write performance

The most important and difficult task for any storage unit is ... writing really small files fast, so let's start off there and have look at that with this WRITE test. We scale 4KB block sizes to 1024KB block sizes in bursts of 256MB with a queue depth of 4 and then measure how fast the storage device is dealing with them. The storage units we used:

  • WD1500HLFS VelociRaptor
  • Corsair V128 128GB (MLC) Indilinx
  • ADATA S599 100GB (MLC) SandForce SF1200
  • OCZ Vertex 2 100 GB (MLC) SandForce SF1200
  • Corsair F100 (MLC) SandForce SF1200

We recently added the latest revision of the Western Digital WD1500HLFS VelociRaptor to our test suite, it is considered one of the fastest and most expensive 10k RPM HDD your money can get you. It's read/write performance is unprecedented good for a traditional/mechanical HDD of course.

Then the new Corsair V128 SSD, the ADATA SF1200 based S599 and OCZ Vertex 2 and finally in red, the MLC based Corsair F100 nearing ~260MB/sec write performance. Look at the 4KB file size test by the way, that is unbelievably good. That's the strength of the SandForce controllers.

** Mind you that we recently updated our ATTO test suite and as such the benchmarks have all been redone, and they can differ a little here and there compared to the more older reviews and test results.

ATTO Read performance

The previous test was write performance, but let's have a peek at read performance. The SandForce-1200 controller based SSDs kicks ass and definitely take a lead in this particular benchmark.

The SSDs are all really fast, but that's 280 MB/sec read performance when it's peaking. And again look at the tremendous increase in small file operation performance. That's more than double of Indilinx based products !

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