OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 review

Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/27/2011 01:00 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]

SSD Performance IOMeter | AS SSD Benchmark

IO Meter IOPS performance

IO meter, results vary per website since everybody configures this test differently. We brought the ancient application back in rotation as it remains the best application to really stress the random IO performance amongst others for storage devices.

OCZ Vertex 3 PRO review

Iometer is a workload creator, it will literally perform massive I/O operations in order to stress the system. To measure random I/O response time as well as total I/O's per second, Iometer is set to use 4KB file size chunks and will completely trash the SSD with random 4KB files, massively stressing the random IO.

OCZ RevoDrive X2

We apply our own 4KB Random IO read and write stress test so it differes a little from OCZ's own test methodology, we leave it running for a while and then note down the average IOPS score in operations per second.

Above read performance - again really good performance right there. Roughly 165K IOPS which is just sick. The CPU usage was a little high during this test (Core i7 2600K processor), but this test is so immense it could kill off a mid-range system really.

Above write performance - Now with Random IO 4KB WRITE performance, this is where SandForce controllers kick massive ass. It seems that everybody is using IOMeter's parameters slightly different, but that is more than I expected.

Also and I really need to say this, we feel IOMeter is just a horrible test. There's no application in this worlds that continuesly writes perfect 4K files all of the time. The test was designed to show high numbers for SSD technology and as such we start to dislike it more and more, as it does not say a thing about actual real-world performance. What this test needs to become more objective are random file/block sizes reading and writing.

AS SSD Benchmark

Added to the benchmark suite is this nice little German application called AS SSD Benchmark. This test gives an extensive result set. The test is popular, but probably not the best one out there. So just for reference, here we go.

OCZ RevoDrive X2

Now we left the unit for 20 minutes in idle, and ran the test again.

Nothing to compare to yet, but we did ran some other tests with other SSDs and performance is up-to speed alright.

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