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Review of the
Fusion-IO IODrive 80GB SSD |
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Benchmarks continued |
| HD Tach and
ATTO tests on the previous page show drives' maximum performance, but
what about the real world? Are there test that consumers can run
to simulate server performance? |
| Next
test:
PC Mark |
| PC Mark is
a popular benchmarking tool that should give a user a general idea of
practical performance a desktop or workstation user can expect.
PC Mark 05 can only be run on Windows XP. PC Mark Vantage can
only be run on Windows Vista. Since we installed XP
64-bit, we ran PC Mark 05. PC Mark runs five separate tests.
When all tests are run in a batch, the software will return an overall
score. (The score generated in the 05 version for some reason
does not correlate to the number generated by Vantage, so you cannot
compare the two. The Windows drivers for the ioDrive are beta.
For some reason, all PC Mark HDD tests would not run in a batch with
the ioDrive. They ALL DO RUN, but each test must be run
separately to generate that test's result. |
| XP
Startup test |
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| Comment: |
| When you
look at the outrageous advantages of every other test, we think that
the ioDrive still leads the pack in the real world. It is a moot
point as of this writing because the ioDrive is not yet
bootable. |
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Application Loading |
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| Comment: |
| ioDrive is
5.5X faster than the next SSD and 30X faster than a 10,000RPM Raptor
Hard Drive |
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| General
Usage |
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| Comment: |
| ioDrive is
6.5X faster than the next SSD and 36X faster than a 10,000RPM Raptor
Hard Drive |
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| Virus
Scan |
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| File
Write |
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| ioDrive is
4.4X faster than the next SSD and 5.3X faster than a 10,000RPM Raptor
Hard Drive |
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| Passmark
Performance Test |
| Credit goes
to the benchmarking guys at Tweaktown for bringing this application to
forefront. IOMeter is a popular benchmarking program but
requires so many parameters that we could run a test 10 ways, and
someone would want it run another way. Its a flexible tool that
a customer can use to determine performance under an extremely
specific set of parameters. Performance Test by Passmark allows
the public a general look into the performance of a drive under four
different scenarios: File Server, Web Server, Workstation, and
Database. Each has a different percentage of reads and writes.
The ioDrive was built for servers. Computer Power User Magazine
reviews have shown exaggerated increases in performance with IOMeter.
We are about to see what we obtained using Passmark. |
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| File
Server |
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| Comment: |
| ioDrive is
15.8X faster than the next SSD and 107X faster than a 10,000RPM
Raptor Hard Drive |
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| Web
Server |
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| Comment: |
| ioDrive is
8.6X faster than the next SSD and 170X faster than a 10,000RPM
Raptor Hard Drive |
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|
Workstation |
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| Comment: |
| ioDrive is
10X faster than the next SSD and 48X faster than a 10,000RPM Raptor
Hard Drive |
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| Database |
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| Comment: |
| ioDrive is
9.2X faster than the next SSD and 92X faster than a 10,000RPM Raptor
Hard Drive |
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| The ioDrive
really shines with server tasks. In a server or PC, it seems the
more you task it with, the more it will shine. |
