Legit Storage Reviews

OCZ Vertex 2 Pro 100GB SandForce SF-1500 SSD Preview

Manufacturer: OCZ Technology
Product: Vertex 2 Pro
Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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IOMeter

Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was originally developed by the Intel Corporation and announced at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) on February 17, 1998 - since then it got wide spread within the industry. Meanwhile Intel has discontinued to work on Iometer and it was given to the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). The project is now driven by an international group of individuals who are continuously improving, porting and extend the product.

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Iometer version 2006.07.27 was used for testing and while we tested a dozen different file sizes we will be looking at the ones that are important to Windows users. In the Microsoft Windows operating systems many of the transactions are done at 512B/4kB/8kB/32kB/128kB, with the vast majority at 4kB, then 128kB / 512B, then the rest. Very few Windows applications use transfers larger than 128kB. We began the test by filling the drive completely full of data first and then testing 100% random IOPs in a 4KB region. We set the queue depth to 32 for this test.

Read Performance in IOps

Iometer Read Test Results

Benchmark Results: As you can see the Intel X25-M G2 34nm 160GB SSD performed better than the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro 100GB SSD in all the file sizes for the read tests. This is no big shocker the Intel drive showed better read performance in the majority of the benchmarks that we used today.


Write Performance in IOps

Iometer Write Test Results

Benchmark Results: When it comes to write performance OCZ Vertex 2 Pro 100GB SSD was better across the board in all of the tests except for the 512 B file size.

Next Page - AS SSD Benchmark


Review Index
Page 1 - Is SandForce The Best SSD Controller?
Page 2 - Why The SandForce Controller Is Special
Page 3 - Inside the Vertex 2 Pro SSD
Page 4 - The OCZ Toolbox Utility
Page 5 - The Test System
Page 6 - HD Tach v3.0.4.0
Page 7 - HD Tune v4.01
Page 8 - HD Tune v4.01 - Random Access
Page 9 - SiSoftware Sandra 2010
Page 10 - CrystalDiskMark v3.0
Page 11 - ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.41
Page 12 - PCMark Vantage
Page 13 - IOMeter
Page 14 - AS SSD Benchmark
Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions