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1/16/10 at 12:20pm

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I was reading a post and someone said "are there any sites comparing SSD benches"?

And so if one of us was to start a thread for SSD benches "What bench do ya think we should use"?

I'm thinking "ATTO" because it does "Write test"

And maybe "HD Tune Pro" as it does Random Access tests

But would like to here what you guys think

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1/17/10 at 3:40am

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ATTO and HD Tune are great hard drive benchmark tools. AS SSD Benchmark and Crystal Disk Marks are nice tools as well.

All four or a combination should give readers a good idea of how each drive performs.
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The IOPS test (as done by HDTune Pro) is really the only way of differentiating SSDs based on performance - the sequential read speed is not really very helpful in determining the best drives to buy.

Sequential rates are only really useful to check basic setup options for SSDs, and most of the 'usual' benches only serve to confuse people as to which drives really are best.

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1/17/10 at 12:28pm

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HDTune wasn't designed with SSD levels of performance in mind, its best left to magnetic hard drives.

ATTO will give you a good reading of IOPS, but for the most accurate info you'll want to start using IOmeter. IOmeter will give you very results for just about any kind of operation you want to throw at the drive, and it is dead on accurate when repeated.

For everyday quick comparisons crystal disk mark and HDTune will suffice, but if you want to know exactly how well your drive is running, download IOmeter.

I'd like to see a sort of 'benchmarking suite for SSD' get posted in this forum sometime so that we can all compare our results over the exact same tests!

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1/17/10 at 8:17pm

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So how about we rate them just by "Random Read IOPS"
And so my Raid scores 487 IOPS

And I see the "free trial" of HD Tune Pro will do that

http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ACHILEE5

So how about we rate them just by "Random Read IOPS"
And so my Raid scores 487 IOPS

And I see the "free trial" of HD Tune Pro will do that

http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

I think Atto would be a more appropriate program to use for 'everyday' benching. At least it has a few options on command que depth and length of tests.

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I have now read that nearly all these test are not accurate with SSD cos they "Spot Test"
And that Everest was the only one that came close for Bench

And HD Tune Pro was OK ish for Random Access IOPS!
And ATTO, although it does spot test. Was still usable, so it said

IDK

But I bet there are bods out there right now, making SSD bench tools

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ACHILEE5

I have now read that nearly all these test are not accurate with SSD cos they "Spot Test"
And that Everest was the only one that came close for Bench

And HD Tune Pro was OK ish for Random Access IOPS!
And ATTO, although it does spot test. Was still usable, so it said

IDK

But I bet there are bods out there right now, making SSD bench tools

That's why I said to use IOmeter if you want accurate results!

Here's a good page form Tony at OCZ explaining how to setup IOmeter for testing. It also includes some custom pre-setup tests which you can run.

EDIT: Oh and I wouldn't use the 10GB size that he uses for his tests, repeated use of those can cause a decent amount of wear on the NAND.

Really, 1 GB is pretty close to being as accurate as a 10GB test for SSD performance. About 2 million sectors should be enough.
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Well I had a go with Iometer, and it's not the easiest one to use by a long shot. But this is what I got

Oh, I did the 10GB test. Mainly cos I didn't see where to change it

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Must be a 512k sequential read run?

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