SSD Random Read/Write Speed Survey

[tmiw]

Just got my Intel SSD today.

 

[abnospam]

Just installed my Intel g2 as well:

Results	308.97	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.3
		System Version		10.6.3 (10D2094)
		Physical RAM		4096 MB
		Model		MacBookPro6,2
		Drive Type		INTEL SSDSA2M160G2GC
	Disk Test	308.97	
		Sequential	200.74	
			Uncached Write	176.73	108.51 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	167.95	95.02 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	171.98	50.33 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	400.13	201.10 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	670.40	
			Uncached Write	763.34	80.81 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	316.04	101.18 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	2294.65	16.26 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	946.43	175.62 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[piwi]

This is what I have on my spanking new X25-M 80GB freshly installed and with all the data restored (about 50GB free space for now) Yeeeeha loving it!! Botting in 30 secs instead of 1min45 before, everything loads right away, it's a pleasure to use!

(click to enlarge)

 

[johnnymg]

Crucial C300 128GB with ver 2 firmware in a 2009 2.66GHz MBP. This was the best of 3-4 runs. The lowest was ~305.

Results 341.96
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.3 (10D573)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro5,1
Drive Type C300-CTFDDAC128MAG
Disk Test 341.96
Sequential 214.95
Uncached Write 235.99 144.90 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 223.49 126.45 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 129.82 37.99 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 455.67 229.02 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 835.94
Uncached Write 864.44 91.51 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 441.04 141.19 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2360.22 16.73 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1067.08 198.00 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[CarsonJones]

MacBook Pro 15" i5, 4GB RAM

 

[DeusInvictus7]

Ok so little update, just about 3 weeks into having the drive, and just ran a Xbench to see how my drive is doing, and I must say, it's not looking to good. It's only 10 points lower than it was on the first day, but still, I don't want the drive to end up being a dud after a few months.

So I requested an RMA and am planning on returning it, and getting the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro or the Intel X25-M, can't really decide. Only about $50 dollars more and WAY faster and much more reliable over time and possible degrading.

Corsair V128 - 3 weeks in:

 

[tweaks]

 

[BlackZ]

Current status with a disk that is becoming pretty full, still love the drive

Here is one last benchmark with a C300 Firmware V 2.0 and no applications running in the background.

I am really happy my speed issue has been resolved from before

 

[Jaxdialation]

OWC Mercury Extreme SSD RE 200 in i7 17" MBP

Results 323.76
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.3 (10D2094)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro6,1
Drive Type OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD
Disk Test 323.76
Sequential 195.00
Uncached Write 280.07 171.96 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 280.33 158.61 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 94.13 27.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 363.38 182.63 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 953.14
Uncached Write 1194.13 126.41 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 501.42 160.52 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2992.01 21.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 970.26 180.04 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[DeusInvictus7]

Results 323.76
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.3 (10D2094)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro6,1
Drive Type OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD
Disk Test 323.76
Sequential 195.00
Uncached Write 280.07 171.96 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 280.33 158.61 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 94.13 27.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 363.38 182.63 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 953.14
Uncached Write 1194.13 126.41 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 501.42 160.52 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2992.01 21.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 970.26 180.04 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Those are awesome results. I just ordered the 120GB version of that drive, so hopefully the 7% compared to 28% over-provisioning doesn't affect performance too much. Are those brand new results or after you've had the drive for a while?

 

[jnpy!$4g3cwk]

Those are awesome results. I just ordered the 120GB version of that drive, so hopefully the 7% compared to 28% over-provisioning doesn't affect performance too much. Are those brand new results or after you've had the drive for a while?

I'm hoping that people check in after 6 months and a year to see how the performance looks then. The results for most SSD's look fantastic on day-- what I would like to know is how well they age.

 

[Genyus]

Haven't seen any results from OCZ drives yet, so here are mine:

Results	319.32	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.3
		System Version		10.6.3 (10D2094)
		Physical RAM		8192 MB
		Model				MacBookPro6,2
		Drive Type			OCZ-AGILITY2
	Disk Test	319.32	
		Sequential	191.57	
			Uncached Write	279.39	171.54 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	279.87	158.35 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	91.19		26.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	362.11	182.00 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	958.49	
			Uncached Write	1278.52	135.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	497.95	159.41 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	2910.96	20.63 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	962.17	178.54 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[stylinexpat]

Here is mine with the new Vertex 2 SSD

 

[stylinexpat]

I'm thinking of adding a second Vertex 2 SSD to run raid in my new 13" Macbook Pro. Any thoughts from others..? Anyone here running raid on their 13" Macbook Pro?

 

[DeusInvictus7]

Just received my OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 120, and here are the results after transferring all my files over.

EDIT: Something can't be right. Second photo is the result of xBench about 6 hours in...not looking good. I ran the test about 10 times over the past two hours, and none of them were even close to 300 like the first test.

 

[Kahalu'u Bob]

2.66 13" Mbp

Thanks for a very interesting thread!

 

[heresjohnny]

240GB OWC Mercury Extreme

Been using this drive for a week, on a 2010 17" MBP with 8GB RAM.

Results 340.67
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.3 (10D2094)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro6,1
Drive Type OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD
Disk Test 340.67
Sequential 205.15
Uncached Write 313.41 192.43 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 273.29 154.63 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 99.87 29.23 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 379.45 190.71 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 1003.69
Uncached Write 1327.09 140.49 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 519.34 166.26 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 3187.48 22.59 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1007.53 186.95 MB/sec [256K blocks]


The drive flies, but I seem to have had a massive drop in battery life. (Like cut in half.) I'm not sure if it's caused by the drive, but nothing else obvious has changed.

 

[killerbee79]

Late 2008 2 GHz Alu Macbook, 128GB Crucial M225 with firmware 1916. A few days in use.

Results 268.26
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.3 (10D578)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBook5,1
Drive Type CRUCIAL_CT128M225
Disk Test 268.26
Sequential 224.39
Uncached Write 232.01 142.45 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 303.69 171.83 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 126.79 37.10 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 428.17 215.20 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 333.45
Uncached Write 115.58 12.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 555.29 177.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2524.50 17.89 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 871.76 161.76 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[steffi]

In grab how are you guys converting the images to jpeg so they can be posted? This forum doesn't accept TIFFs which is what Grab creates.

I just got my OWC 200 Pro RE SSD and I'll post numbers once I've got it up and running

 

[WMuntean]

Here is mine with the new Vertex 2 SSD

Can you post xBench results? I'm wondering what the random read/write speeds are. They use the new SF controller which is supposed to top the Intel drives...

 

[roxygal9]

I have the toshoba 256 ssd should i post those benchmarks?

not sure if people wanted only 3rd party ssd's

if so give me a few mins new to macs just opened it a few hours ago

awesome machine!

 

[Jaro65]

Kingston SSDNow V+

Not the fastest drive out there, but it's not too bad.

 

[EvillYoda]

Hmmm...

Really happy with the speed of the new drive. 30 sec boot time is awesome. CS5 runs like never before. Late 2008 MBP 2.53GHZ 4GB ram 512MB 9600m GT. My most frequent Xbench results are in the high 230's to low 240's. The first results after installing the drive were 220.

But my results seem a lot lower than others with the X25-m 80gb g2..... should I be worried?

Specifically the 4k reads seam rather low usually bouncing between 9-13 mb/s.

I figure now I'll just use it, I like the new experience. If it goes bad i send it back. IS that the right thing to do?


My best results yet after using the system for a few hours.

 

[ApplFTW]

Here is the Apple SSD, don't know much about the numbers but my god is an SSD fast..

 

[steffi]

Here's the OWC Pro SSD RE 240

XBench

Results 299.16
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.3 (10D2094)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro6,2
Drive Type OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD
Disk Test 299.16
Sequential 180.00
Uncached Write 261.71 160.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 256.79 145.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 87.72 25.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 321.83 161.75 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 884.99
Uncached Write 1235.33 130.77 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 461.80 147.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2880.69 20.41 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 834.92 154.93 MB/sec [256K blocks]


and

QuickBench

QuickBench(TM) 4.0 Test Results
Ò2000-2007 Intech Software Corp.
Test file created on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 10:38:10 PM
Test Volume Name: OWC SSD
Test Volume Type: MacOS Extended
Test Volume Size: 185.990 Gigabytes
Test Volume Free Space: 71.009 Gigabytes
Allow Disk Cache Effects: Disabled
All reads and writes performed sychronously

Standard Test Results

(Cycles: 5)
< Insert Chart Here > Seq. Read Seq. Write Ran. Read Ran. Write
4 KB 29.04 34.5 22.95 28.62
8 KB 51.7 47.85 43.02 38.49
16 KB 80.91 83.59 69.17 81.93
32 KB 116.15 114.34 104.51 113.75
64 KB 152.68 158.69 139.44 135.28
128 KB 151.65 161.67 142.52 155.12
256 KB 183.06 175.09 178.12 163.26
512 KB 208.9 203.22 205.08 198.51
1024 KB 220.31 214.22 219.09 211.93
Standard Ave 132.71 132.58 124.88 125.21


Extended Tests Not Run


Extended Tests Not Run


Custom Tests Not Run

Here is the Apple SSD, don't know much about the numbers but my god is an SSD fast..