Spring 2010 Solid State Drive Roundup, Part 2

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In part one of our SSD roundup, we looked at drives from Crucial, OCZ, Intel, Solidata, and Toshiba. To those results, we're adding Crucial's first 6 Gb/s SSD, WD's first SSD, and Kingston's 128GB SSDNow V-series, along with 'fresh' and 'used' scores.

Test Setup And Comparison Table

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System Hardware
Hardware Details
CPU Intel Core i7-920 (45 nm, 2.66 GHz, 8MB L2 Cache)
Motherboard (Socket 1366) Supermicro X8SAX Revision: 1.0; Chipset: Intel X58 + ICH10R (SATA 3Gb/s); BIOS: 1.0B
RAM 3 x 1GB DDR3-1333 Corsair CM3X1024-1333C9DHX
HDD Seagate NL35 400GB; ST3400832NS; 7,200 RPM, SATA 1.5Gb/s, 8MB Cache
Host Adapter Highpoint Rocket 62X SATA 6Gb/s, x1 PCI Express 2.0
Power Supply OCZ EliteXstream 800W OCZ800EXS-EU
Benchmarks
Performance Measurements h2benchw 3.13PCMark Vantage 1.0.2.0
I/O Performance IOMeter 2008.08.18Fileserver-BenchmarkWebserver-BenchmarkDatabase-BenchmarkWorkstation-BenchmarkStreaming ReadsStreaming Writes4K Random Reads4K Random Writes
System Software & Drivers
Operating System Windows 7 Ultimate

Comparison Table

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Manufacturer Crucial Kingston Western Digital
Family RealSSD C300 SSDNow V-Series WD SiliconEdge Blue
Model Number MTFDDAC256MAG-1GAES SNV-425 SSC-D0256SC-2100
Capacity 256GB 128GB 256GB
Other Capacities 128GB 30, 64GB 64, 128GB
Flash Type Flash MLC Flash MLC Flash MLC
Controller Marvell 88SS9174-BJP2 JMicron JMF618 JMicron JMF618
Form Factor 2.5" 2.5" 2.5"
Interface SATA 6Gb/s SATA 3Gb/s SATA 3Gb/s
Cache (MB) 128MB 64MB 64MB
NCQ Yes Yes Yes
Height 9.5 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm
MTBF N/A 1,000,000 h 1,400,000 h
Operating Temperature 0-70°C 0-70°C 0-70°C
Specified Idle Power (low-power) 0.09W 0.70W 0.60W
Measured Idle Power (low-power) 0.60W 1.40W 1.00W