Yapt v0.3

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.

The Viking SATADIMM - Enterprise SandForce punch packed into a DIMM! - Storage 32

The Viking SATADIMM - Enterprise SandForce punch packed into a DIMM! - Storage 33

The Viking SATADIMM - Enterprise SandForce punch packed into a DIMM! - Storage 34

The Viking SATADIMM - Enterprise SandForce punch packed into a DIMM! - Storage 35

Yapt is a good test for bulk file copy activity, and it gives us another data point to compare these units. Save a bit of data scatter causing it to poke below the orange line, the SATADIMM performs just as well as any other SandForce unit, and walks all over Intel on writes.

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