The Phoenix Pro is very similar to the regular Phoenix. Both are based on the SandForce SF-1200 controller. However, the Pro drive was optimized to be a a little faster here and there, and to maintain maximum performance on 4K random writes. As a matter of fact, its 31 500 I/O operations per second are close to what Crucial delivers with its 256 GB RealSSD C300, but 3x to 5x faster than the performance delivered by Indilinx-powered SSDs or Intel’s X25-M drives.
The Phoenix Pro is a fair bit faster on PCMark Vantage application tests than the non-Pro edition, and we measured marginally lower power consumption in most workload scenarios, as well. As a result, the Phoenix Pro not only beats the standard Phoenix when it comes to performance per watt, but it's also second-best in this overall rating, right after OCZ’s Vertex 2 drives, which are also based on the SF-1200 controller.
However, Intel and Toshiba are better at read performance per watt. Both are much lower on power consumption even though they don't deliver the same write performance, especially on 4K random writes.
- Tom’s Hardware Mainstream SSD Shootout
- The SSD Landscape
- Asax Leopard Hunt II (TS25M64, 128 GB)
- Asax Server One 120 (200 GB)
- Crucial RealSSD C300 (64 GB)
- G.Skill Phoenix FM25S2S (100 GB)
- G.Skill Phoenix Pro (120 GB)
- Intel X25-V (40 GB)
- OCZ Vertex 2 (VTX100G, 100 GB)
- OCZ Vertex 2 (E series, VTX2E120G, 120 GB)
- OWC Mercury Extreme SSD (100 GB)
- RunCore Kylin II SSD (100 GB)
- Test Setup
- Benchmark Results: Access Time
- Benchmark Results: I/O Performance
- Benchmark Results: Read/Write Throughput
- Benchmark Results: 4K Random Reads/Writes And Interface Bandwidth
- Benchmark Results: PCMark Vantage
- Benchmark Results: Power Consumption
- Benchmark Results: Power Efficiency
- Performance Indexes
- Conclusion
- Comparison Table



