How do we test?

Testenvironment

Models
ADATA S511 60 GB
ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB
ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB
Corsair Force 3 120 GB
Corsair Force GS 240 GB
Corsair Force GT 120 GB
Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB
Crucial M500 480 GB
Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB
Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB
Intel SSD 520 180 GB
Intel SSD 520 240 GB
Intel SSD 750 1.2 TB PCIe
Intel SSD 750 400 GB PCIe
Intel X25-M 80 GB
Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB
Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB	n/A
Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB
Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB
Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB
Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB
Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB
OCZ Agility 3 240 GB
OCZ Agility 4 256 GB
OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC
OCZ IBIS 240 GB
OCZ Octane 512 GB
OCZ Octane 1 TB
OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB
OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD
OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD
OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD
OCZ Synapse 64 GB
OCZ Trion 100 960 GB
OCZ Vector 150 240 GB
OCZ Vector 180 480 GB
OCZ Vector 180 960 GB
OCZ Vector 256 GB
OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB
OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB
OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB
OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB
OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB
OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB
OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB
OCZ Vertex 460 240 GB
Plextor M5Pro 256 GB
Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB
Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB
Samsung 840Evo 120 GB
Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA
Samsung 840Evo 1 TB
Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB
Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
Samsung PM863 960GB
SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB
SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB
Toshiba Q300 480 GB
Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB	n/A

iozone

iozone3 is a benchmark suite for storage solutions which natively runs under Windows/Linux.

We are testing the throughput rates/IOPS with different block sizes using the following commands:

KByte/s

• iozone -Rb test4k.xls -i0 -i1 -i2 -+n -r 4k -s4g -t32
• iozone -Rb test256k.xls -i0 -i1 -i2 -+n -r 256k -s4g -t32

iops

• iozone -Rb test4ko.xls -i0 -i1 -i2 -+n -r 4k -s4g -t32 -O

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 7 - Random read KByte/s
Page 2 - Impressions	Page 8 - Random write IOPS
Page 3 - How do we test?	Page 9 - Random read IOPS
Page 4 - Sequential write KByte/s	Page 10 - QD1/4/8/16/32 Performance
Page 5 - Sequential read KByte/s	Page 11 - Conclusion
Page 6 - Random write KByte/s