SSD roundup: Vertex 3 vs M4 vs C300 vs 510 vs 320 vs x25-M vs F120 vs Falcon II

[Marc HFR]

That is why it is good that Marc ran real life applications and timed them. He is waiting for a mod to activate his account and then he will hopefully join us.

For a lot of thing SSD are ... CPU limited

For example if i go from i7-2600K to i7-2600K @ 4.5 GHz on Crysis 2 level loading
WD 2 To Black : 21.5s => 19.2s (-2.3s)
X25-M 120 : 18.1s => 15.5s (-2.6s)
Vertex 3 240 : 17.1s => 14.4s (-2.7s)

In heavy multitasking perhaps we can have some (small) difference but it's hard to find a realistic case that i can use to benchmark.

For example during the bench i've tried to combine the launch of 3ds/photoshop/word/excel (wich in fact is already heavy) with a file copy (read+write) limited at 5 MB/s, i don't get any difference at all.

At the end, more than CPU limited, i think modern SSD are now "user" limited