Conventional Hard Drive Obsoletism? Samsung's 32 GB Flash Drive Previewed
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Jason Zushman
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Test Setup
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| System Hardware (Reference System for Storage Testing) | |
|---|---|
| Processor(s) | 2x Intel Xeon Processor (Nocona core)3.6 GHz, FSB800, 1 MB L2 Cache |
| Platform | Asus NCL-DS (Socket 604)Intel E7520 Chipset, BIOS 1005 |
| RAM | Corsair CM72DD512AR-400 (DDR2-400 ECC, reg.)2x 512 MB, CL3-3-3-10 Timings |
| System Hard Drive | Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB120 GB, 7,200 rpm, 8 MB Cache, UltraATA/100 |
| Mass Storage Controller(s) | Intel 82801EB UltraATA/100 Controller (ICH5)Promise SATA 300TX4Promise FastTrak TX4310Driver 2.06.1.310 |
| Networking | Broadcom BCM5721 On-Board Gigabit Ethernet NIC |
| Graphics Card | On-Board GraphicsATI RageXL, 8 MB |
| System Hardware | |
| Performance Measurements | c’t h2benchw 3.6 |
| I/O Performance | IOMeter 2003.05.10Fileserver-BenchmarkWebserver-BenchmarkDatabase-BenchmarkWorkstation-Benchmark |
| System Software & Drivers | |
| OS | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 1 |
| Platform Driver | Intel Chipset Installation Utility 7.0.0.1025 |
| Graphics Driver | Default Windows Graphics Driver |
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| System Hardware (Notebook for This Project) | |
|---|---|
| Socket 479 | Intel Pentium M 1.3 GHz (Banias, 32 + 32 kB L1 Cache, 1 MB L2 Cache) |
| RAM | 768 MB DDR266 (CL 2.5-3-3-6) |
| Graphics Card | Intel Extreme Graphics 2 |
| Chipset | Intel i855GM |
| Hard Drive I | Samsung Solid State Disk 32 GB, UltraATA/66Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD |
| Hard Drive II | 100 GB 7,200 RPM, 8 MB cache, UltraATA/100Hitachi TravelStar 7K100 |
| Hard Drive III | 160 GB 5.400 RPM, 8 MB cache, UltraATA/100Samsung HM160JC |
| DVD-ROM | Matsushita DVD/RW UJ-811 |
| Software | |
| Intel Graphics Driver | Ver. 6.14.10.4497 |
| Intel Chipset Driver | Intel Chipset Software 8.1.1.1001 |
| DirectX | Version : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) |
| OS | Windows XP, Build 2600 SP2 |
Our tests were performed on an Averatec 5100 Notebook with 768 MB RAM and a Pentium M 1.3 GHz CPU (600 MHz in SpeedStep mode).
Benchmark Results
Data Transfer Diagram
Drive Interface Bandwidth
In terms of our test for drive interface bandwidth the limiting factor is the UltraATA/66 interface effectively handicapping scores, especially in the data read category. All other drives the SSD was tested against feature either ATA/100 or SATA/150.
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