Page 5 - Benchmark: Crystal Disk Mark
About Crystal Disk Mark
- Measure sequential reads/writes speed
- Measure random 512KB, 4KB, 4KB (Queue Depth=32) reads/writes speed
- Select test data (Random, 0Fill, 1Fill)
From: Developer's Page
Crystal Disk Mark 3.0 is in the spotlight. Just a bit of background information; higher capacity drives tend to perform a little better in Crystal Disk Mark 3.0. This gives the Pyro SE 240GB a bit of an inherent competitive advantage over the 120GB Pyro non-SE drive we have reviewed in September last year. To see how the Pyro SE 240GB compares against the competition, check out the numbers in relation to the OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS 240GB and the OCZ Agility 3 240GB. I am starting to suspect that the performance difference noted in this review between the OCZ drives and Patriot drives is not just on the hardware level (After all, the Pyro SE has essentially identical hardware as the Vertex 3. Therefore, theoretically, it should be consistently ahead of the Agility 3, but slightly behind the Vertex 3 Max IOPS), but also on the firmware level. As you can see in our graphs above, the Patriot Pyro SE 240GB is consistently outperformed by the lower priced OCZ Agility 3 240GB -- albeit by a small amount -- in the first two tests. But when we look at results in the next two tests, the Pyro SE really got its act together, and outperformed even the Vertex 3 Max IOPS, other than in our 4K QD32 read results. In other words, while the Pyro SE did lose by a hair in data throughput, it whooped some serious butt in the amount of IOPS it can pull.
Page Index
1. Introduction and Specifications
2. A Closer Look, Installation, Test System
3. Benchmark: AIDA64 Disk Benchmark
4. Benchmark: ATTO Disk Benchmark
5. Benchmark: Crystal Disk Mark 3.0
6. Benchmark: HD Tach 3.0.1.0
7. Benchmark: HD Tune Pro 4.60
8. Benchmark: PassMark PerformanceTest 7.0
9. Benchmark: PCMark Vantage
10. Conclusion
