This drive definitely aims to be more better for endurance but still decent speeds. The Random 4k IOPS not so good though but still not terrible at 35.5k Read and 43.3k write. SanDisk claims its perfect for high volume transactions and thus good for point of sale, ATM's etc. The SanDisk drive is appealing due to its reliability, claiming 1,750,000 Hours MTBF and being aimed at heavy loads with an endurance rating of 72TBW (Terabytes Written). I'm unsure about reliability but Kingston is generally reliable. It is also quite cheap and has decent read and write speeds too. The Kingston SSD has good Random 4k IOPS at 85k read and 55k write which I thought might be a very useful thing when caching files on the SSD. Samsung 2.5 Inch SATA3 850 EVO 120GB SSD/Solid State Drive 2.5 inch Force LS v2 120GB SATA SSD Corsair Solid State DriveĤ. SanDisk 128GB Z400s 2.5" Business Class SSD/Solid State Driveģ. Kingston ssdNow SV300S37A/V300 120GB UltraSlim 7mm SATA 3Ģ. SSD's are cheap as chips now for 120GB capacity so I selected 4 of my favourites:ġ. I am not putting up with the annoying drive so thats option 1 gone, option 2 I would prefer not to as I'd rather keep the HDD and possibly turn it into a backup drive for the laptop and I would still then have a mechanical drive all be it a quieter one in the router, and it'd still not be anywhere near as quick as an SSD so I think that leaves option 3 as the favourite. Purchase a new small'ish SSD for the router specifically. Did me proud, but wanted SSD speeds like on my main PC.ģ. The drive isn't very old and I believe it is a samsung drive. Swap in a spare 750GB 2.5inch laptop HDD I have recently taken out of a laptop which was replaced by an SSD. The current hard drive also vibrates at an incredibly annoying frequency that's sending a slight vibration through my desk which is irritating me.Ģ. I have setup squid for caching and intend to setup a few other things on the router as so far specs are proving to be overkill on everything except the hard drive. In the individual tests the m4 scored up to six times faster than the U100.So I recently finished building my very first pfSense box! I am so impressed with it so far, I am in love.Ĭurrently it's running on an old Hitachi 320GB SATAII 7200RPM HDD. The results for the HDD part of the benchmark are shown below. PCMark Vantage is one such benchmark and shows that the m4 has a much better score (38785) in the HDD test than the U100 (13665). In order to get a better understanding of SSD performance in a real life situation it is appropriate to look at a more comprehensive benchmarking package which measures the storage performance over a range of different activities chosen to be representative of likely usage. The m4 performs at least twice as fast as the U100 in this benchmark.ĪS-SSD Copy Benchmark Results: Sandisk U100 (left) and Crucial m4 (right) The Crucial m4 is well ahead of the Sandisk U100 according to this benchmark.ĪS-SSD Results: Sandisk U100 (left) and Crucial m4 (right)ĪS-SSD has an extra trick up its sleeve on the form of a file copying benchmark in which it creates some typical files and then copies them from one part of the SSD to another. This also uses four measures of performance and also assigns a score. This is normal for all SSDs but the extent of the drop off varies.ĪTTO Results: Sandisk U100 (left) and Crucial m4 (right) (note the horizontal scale is different)Ī further popular SSD benchmark program is AS-SSD. The graphical display clearly shows how the speed drops off with the smaller block sizes. The U100 also has poor write performance for 512k.ĬrystalDiskMark Results: Sandisk U100 (left) and Crucial m4 (right)ĪTTO is another popular SSD benchmark which tests the read and write speeds for a range of data block sizes. It is the latter two tests where some SSDs (such as the Sandisk U100 supplied in my Samsung notebook) fall down (for example a QD32 write speed of only 7MB/s). The results are relatively easy to interpret because there are only four basic tests: Sequential reading and writing 512k blocks 4k blocks and 4k blocks with a queue depth of 32. CrystalDiskMark is a popular program for benchmarking SSDs.
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