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GSkill Falcon 128GB SSD review - SSD Performance PCMark Vantage HDD

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/21/2009 01:00 PM [ ] 0 comment(s)

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PCMark Vantage HDD test suite

PCMark vantage has a very good test suite to benchmark storage performance. The software will look at items you normally do with your PC and tries to measure what kind of an effect that has on your user experience by testing eight different segments stressing the storage unit.

HDD1 Windows Defender
HDD2 Gaming
HDD3 Import Pictures
HDD4 Windows Vista startup

  • HDD1 - Spyware is very common on systems without protection against it, letting Windows Defender scan & protect your system is recommended.
  • HDD2 - Streaming data from an HDD in games allows for massive worlds and riveting non-stop action.
  • HDD3 - Importing digital photos to Windows Photo Gallery is where a high performance HDD shines.
  • HDD4 - Starting Windows Vista is a rather demanding task for the storage device, but a fast HDD will notably decrease the loading time.

The tests include a series of reads, writes and copies under a set of specific conditions and applications. The G.Skill Falcon SSD rocks, no matter how you look at it, the overall speed is so much faster than any conventional HDD.

Even the Western Digital VelociRaptor I recently picked up is trashed by this SSD.

Let's fire up the second round of real-world performance tests:

HDD5 Video editing
HDD6    Media Center
HDD7 Media Player Music Adding
HDD8 Application loading

  • HDD5 - Home video editing with Windows Movie Maker can be very time-consuming – unless you have a high performance HDD.
  • HDD6 - Windows Media Center with a high performance HDD can handle simultaneous video recording, time-shifting, and streaming to an Extender for Windows Media Center, such as Xbox 360™.
  • HDD7 - Cataloguing your music library is a breeze for fast and powerful HDDs.
  • HDD8 - Starting various applications can take a long time – unless you have a high performance HDD.

Typically in test 5 (video editing) and test 6 (MCE) we noticed the traditional mechanical Raptor drive lead the pack due to small file writing like little thumbnails and such. However, here's where the big 64MB cache on this SSD shines really well. This is the first SSD we tested to ever show this performance.

Compare the G.Skill Falcon to the WD VelociRaptor 150 GB directly for a second there. Yeah, let that sink in for a minute. Alright, next page please.




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GSkill Falcon 128GB SSD review
G.Skill has a product here that they should be very proud off, as they made a touch choice, they also are moving towards the all new Indilinx Barefoot controller inside that SSD drive. As such they can fight off the small-block size issues plaguing SSDs based on the JMicron controllers. This product as that phat 64MB cache inside the falcon to deal with it, and combined with Samsung NAND flash modules we reach over 250 MB/sec read speeds and get this, 190 MB/sec write speeds.

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