PCMark05
For these tests, we use RankDisk, an application developed and copyrighted by Intel. In our testing, we found RankDisk to be suitable for a neutral benchmark. RankDisk is used to record a trace of disk activity during usage of typical applications. These traces can then be replayed to measure the performance of disk operations for that usage.
RankDisk records disk access events using the device drivers and bypasses the file system and the operating system's cache. This makes the measurement independent of the file system overhead or the current state of the operating system. In replaying traces, RankDisk always creates and operates on a new dummy file. This file is created in the same (or closest possible) physical location of the target hard disk. This allows the replaying of traces to be safe (does not destroy any existing files) and comparable across different systems. Due to the natural fragmentation of hard disks over time, they should be defragmented before running these tests.
The traces used for each test were created from real usage. The traces contain different amount of writing and reading on the disk; total ratio in the HDD test suite disk operations is 53% reads and 47% of writes.
The following input traces are used:
Windows XP Startup: This is the Windows XP start trace, which contains disk activities occurring at operating system start-up. The test is 90% reading and 10% writes. This trace contains no user activity.
Application Loading: This is a trace containing disk activities from loading various applications. It includes opening and closing of the following applications:
Microsoft® Word
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 5
Windows® Media Player
3DMark®2001SE
Leadtek® Winfast® DVD
Mozilla Internet Browser
The application loading trace is 83% reads and 17% writes.
General Hard Disk Drive Usage: This trace contains disk activities from using several common applications.
These are:
Opening a Microsoft® Word document, performing grammar check, saving and closing
Compression and decompression using Winzip
Encrypting and decrypting a file using PowerCrypt
Scanning files for viruses using F-Secure® Antivirus.
Playing an MP3 file with Winamp
Playing a WAV file with Winamp
Playing a DivX video using DivX codec and Windows® Media Player
Playing a WMV video file using Windows® Media Player
Viewing pictures using Windows® Picture Viewer
Browsing the internet using Microsoft® Internet Explorer
Loading, playing and exiting a game using Ubisoft Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
The General Usage trace is 60% reads and 40% writes.
Virus Scanning: Virus scanning is a critical task in today's PC usage. As the major bottleneck of scanning viruses is in hard disk activity, it is reasonable to include virus scanning as a HDD test. The test consists of HDD activity of scanning 600MB of files for viruses. The Virus Scanning test is mostly disk reading (99.5%).
File Write: This trace contains disk activities from writing 680MB files on the hard disk and no read operations are involved in this test.
Trace-based testing puts the 335 nearly identical to the 520. From the perspective of regular OS and application usage, there should be no discernable difference in performance between the two.
Looks like an Intel /Samsung
Looks like an Intel /Samsung battle…
Do any of the new wave consumer oriented drives have any power failure protection like super caps to commit writes on power loss?
Intel is putting the solid
Intel is putting the solid state caps in their enterprise products, not their consumer products.
Great, thanks Allyn I am
Great, thanks Allyn I am really interested in having 2 of these raid0 on a gamming pc. I wonder, is there a place where i can find the yapt benchmark, i am interested in running all this benchmarks on my box, see how it compares with the results here. Also the pc per file test is propierary? do you sell that one?
YAPT is one of our toys, but
YAPT is one of our toys, but PCPer file copy can easily be replicated with a batch file copy.
From what I’ve seen is that
From what I’ve seen is that the Corsair Neutron GTX is the main drive to beat in RAID-0 paired with a z77 board and 11.6 drivers option rom so it can handle TRIM.
Now that Hynix bought Link-a-Media and Samsung is making their own drives too, I’d like Intel or Micron making the chipset and flash rather than Sandforce or Marvel so that firmware and reliability going forward stays at the top.
Personally I grabbed a 256GB Samsung 830 on sale because of how it handles GC versus the Intel drives and was cheaper and something about sandforce compressing the data and swapping from performance to reliability modes once they get kind of full didn’t sit right with me.
Now we just need pci-e based solutions to become viable boot drives for cheap so raid controllers and SATA stop being a bottle neck .
Tell us where we can get this
Tell us where we can get this at your review price seen here: 240G @ $184 ($0.76 / GB)
That’s the problem with MSRP,
That's the problem with MSRP, it is only a suggestion. It is just over $300 on NewEgg and you probably won't see sales in the very near future but sooner or later I am sure there will be discounts.
Must’ve been a mistake or
Must’ve been a mistake or something, I see it on Newegg for $209 at the moment…
Ya, that should’ve been a 2
Ya, that should've been a 2 not a 3.
i still don’t see that 2012
i still don’t see that 2012 update for decoder ring 0_o
will series 335 run on sata
will series 335 run on sata rev 1 mobo.
Amazing! This blog looks just
Amazing! This blog looks just like my old one! It’s on a completely different topic but it has
pretty much the same page layout and design. Great choice of colors!