Intel X-25M Gen2 benchmarks

[Chad H]

Hey guys,
I finally got everything in. Now, the only thing that has been added to truly improve performance is the Intel X-25M Gen 2 SSD 80GB. I also added an extra superdrive, extra monitor, and put the Nvidia GT120 back in(to drive the 3rd monitor) but I don't think those helped my benchmarks that much . Anyway, any questions ask away. I can different do tests if you would like. But, I ran Xbench after a fresh time machine install. Lastly, this drive has only 20GB used on it.

 

[Chad H]

Also, here is a comparison with the stock HDD .

 

[VirtualRain]

Awesome... your small 4K reads with a single drive beat my RAID0 array of Gen1 drives. Everything else is about par.

EDIT: On second thought, I doubt my RAID0 array would help 4k reads at all given I'm using a 128K stripe. Never the less, your 4K read performance is some 30 times better than a magnetic disk!

Dual RAID0 array of 1st Gen X25-M 80GB drives...

Results	438.45	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.3
		System Version		10.5.7 (9J61)
		Physical RAM		6144 MB
		Model		MacPro4,1
		Drive Type		Intel SSD RAID0
	Disk Test	438.45	
		Sequential	286.82	
			Uncached Write	276.71	169.90 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	253.02	143.16 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	189.87	55.57 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	898.12	451.39 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	930.26	
			Uncached Write	1095.54	115.98 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	417.89	133.78 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	2346.21	16.63 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	1760.86	326.74 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[Andrew Henry]

Thanks for sharing, looks pretty nice, I still love my first gen ones!