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SuperTalent FSD28GC25M 128GB 2.5-inch SATA Solid State Drive Review
SuperTalent FSD28GC25M 128GB 2.5-inch SATA Solid State Drive Review - PCSTATS
The Supertalent FSD28GC25M is capable of a sequential read speed of at least 60MB/s, a sequential write of 45MB/s and access times of 0.1ms. With no moving parts, the Super Talent 128GB SSD is obviously silent.
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External Mfg. Website: Supertalent Dec 11 2007   C. Sun  
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System Specs and SSD Benchmarks

Prelude to Benchmarks

The details of how the Super Talent 128GB Solid State Drive test system was configured for benchmarking, including the specific hardware, software drivers, operating system and benchmark versions are indicated below. In the second column are the general specs for the reference platforms this serial ATA hard drive is to be compared against. Please take a moment to look over PCSTATS test system configurations before moving on to the individual benchmark results.

PCStats Test System Specs:
processor:

intel Core 2 Duo E6750

Clock Speed:

8 x 333 MHz = 2.66 GHz

Motherboards:

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 (Intel P35 Express)

Videocard:

MSI NX7800GTX-VT1D256E

Memory:

2048MB Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X 2048-8888C4DF

Hard Drives:

Western Digital WD1500AHFD
Super Talent 128GB Solid State Drive

CDROM: Aopen DVD-RW/CD-RW Combo Drive
PowerSupply: PC Power & Cooling 510 SLI
Software Setup

Windows Vista
Intel INF 8.3.0.1013
Forceware 163.75

Benchmarks

SiSoft Sandra XII
HDTach
PCMark Vantage
WinRAR
Simple File Transfer

SiSoft Sandra XII Source:Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Storage Benchmark Results

Drives Drive Index: Buffered Read: Buffered Write: Random Read: Sequential Read: Random Write: Sequential Write: Average Access time:
Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD HDD

72

132

88

55

83

57

80

6

SuperTalent FSD28GC25M Solid State Drive

60

86

69

45

62

50

75

1

Units:

MB/s MB/s MB/s MB/s MB/s MB/s MB/s milliseconds

The access times for the SuperTalent FSD28GC25M 128GB solid state drive are impressive. As we can see, getting at the data is a very quick job for a solid state drive.

HD Tach V3.0.1.0 Source: TCD Labs Inc.

HD Tach is a physical performance hard drive test for Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT/2000. In Windows 9X/ME it uses a special kernel mode VXD to get maximum accuracy by bypassing the file system. A similar mechanism is used in Windows NT/2000/XP. HD Tach reads from areas all over the hard drive and reports an average speed. It also logs the read speeds to a text file that you can load into a spreadsheet and graph to visually read the results of the test.

Hard Drive Tach 3.0.1.0 - Benchmark Results

Physical Drive Size Access Time Read Burst Speed Read Speed Max Read Speed Min

Read
speed Avg

CPU utilization
Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD HDD

150GB

8.2

138.4

84.8

53

75

4

SuperTalent FSD28GC25M Solid State Drive 128GB

0.1

80.8

75.6

63.3

68

0

Units:

ms

MB/s MB/s MB/s MB/s

%

With no spinning platter, the Super Talent SSD can access data in an instant. Low CPU utilization means the processor is free for other tasks. These two values are probably most important since this type of drive can be deployed in unconventional situations, getting data available quickly may be critical and with little to no CPU utilization means the processor can focus on more important tasks.

WinRAR Internal Benchmark Source: RARLabs

This command generates random data, which contain specially introduced redundancy increasing load to processor and memory. Then data are passed through RAR compression and decompression algorithms and output of decompression algorithm is compared with source data. If any difference found, WinRAR reports "Errors found - Yes" in the command window. Also WinRAR displays a size of processed data and compression speed, current and resulting, in kilobytes per second. You may use the resulting speed value to compare RAR performance in different conditions.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportWinRAR
Compression Test: MB/s Ranking
Western Digital RaptorX WD1500AHFD HDD 1160
Super Talent FSD28GC25M Solid State Drive 806

Data bandwidth is not the Super Talent 128GB SSD's strength.

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Contents of Article: Supertalent FSD28GC25M
 Pg 1.  SuperTalent FSD28GC25M 128GB 2.5-inch SATA Solid State Drive Review
 Pg 2.  — System Specs and SSD Benchmarks
 Pg 3.  SSD Benchmarks: PCMark Vantage, File Transfer Test
 Pg 4.  Solid State Drives, Not for Everyone

 
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