Yapt v0.3
Yapt (yet another performance test) is a benchmark recommended by a pair of drive manufacturers and was incredibly difficult to locate as it hasn’t been updated or used in quite some time. That doesn’t make it irrelevant by any means though, as the benchmark is quite useful. It creates a test file of about 100 MB in size and runs both random and sequential read and write tests with it while changing the data I/O size in the process. The results are a good look at overall drive performance.
Yapt is an obscure benchmark, but here it helped demonstrate the performance differences within each drive line. All drives did well in sequential reads, but the sequential write test showed both the Corsair P64 and Crucial CT64M falling short of their larger cousins. Both Samsung units stuck together in random reads, sneaking past the 64GB Indilinx-based CT64M. Random writes again showed the 64GB models falling behind the larger ones. The PhotoFast V4S did best across all write tests, even surpassing the Vertex Turbo.
