Testing (continued):

SiSoft Sandra Professional 2009.9.15.122:

SiSoft Sandra was the next test suite executed on the drives on hand. From the large suite of tests available in Sandra, results for Drive Index (MB/s) and Random Access Time (ms) were what I was after. Higher values are better for Drive Index, while lower values are better for Random Access Time. These tests were also executed with individual "Read" and "Write" results, but were plotted on the same chart.

      

The access time values are again confirmed to be a dominating feature of an SSD versus a hard drive, and the "Read" drive index is also pretty impressive. While the "Write" drive index test shows the SSD finishing in second, the results are still quite acceptable.

CrystalDiskMark 2.2:

CrystalMark's CrystalDiskMark 2.2 was executed next. This simple benchmark allows you to test a variety of read and write speed characteristics of a drive, with all results provided in terms of MB/s (higher is better). The results shown below were all achieved using "Test 5" set to 100MB.

      

In this test it didn't matter whether the drives were being written to or read from; the Kingston SSD dominated.