SSD Summer Slam: 12 New 2.5" And 1.8" Drives Rounded-Up

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Comparison Table And Test Setup

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Manufacturer A-Data Asax Asax Cavalry Storage
Family SSD S592 Leopard-Hunt II Leopard-Hunt II SSD Pelican
Model Number Row 1 - Cell 1 ASAX-SATA1.8 T2-SSD ASAX-SATA2.5 T2-SSD CASD00032MIS
Tested Capacities 128GB 64GB 256GB 32GB
Other Capacities 32, 64GB 16, 32, 128, 256GB 16, 32, 64, 128GB 64, 128GB
Rotational Speed (RPM) Flash MLC Flash MLC Flash MLC Flash MLC
Controller Indilinx Indilinx Indilinx JMF602
Form Factor 2.5" 1.8" 2.5" 2.5"
Interface SATA/300 SATA/300 SATA/300 SATA/300
Cache 64MB 64MB 64MB n/a
NCQ yes yes yes yes
Height 9.5 mm n/a 9.5 mm 9.5 mm
Weight 54 g 26 g Row 11 - Cell 3 Row 11 - Cell 4
MTBF 1,000,000 h n/a n/a 1,300,000 h
Operating Temperature n/a n/a n/a 0-70°C
Specified Idle Power (Low Power) 0.44W 0.57W 0.62W 1.04W
Measured Idle Power (Low Power) 0.50W 0.35W 0.35W 1.00W
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Manufacturer Corsair Crucial Crucial Intel
Family P256 M225 M225 X25-M 34nm
Model Number CMFSSD-256GBG2D CT128M225 CT256M225 SSDSA2M160G2G2
Tested Capacities 256GB 128GB 256GB 160GB
Other Capacities 64, 128GB 64, 256GB 64, 256GB 80GB
Rotational Speed (RPM) Flash MLC Flash MLC Flash MLC Flash MLC
Controller Samsung Indilinx Indilinx PC29AS21BA0
Form Factor 2.5" 2.5" 2.5" 2.5"
Interface SATA/300 SATA/300 SATA/300 SATA/300
Cache (MB) 128MB 64MB 64MB 32MB
NCQ yes yes yes yes
Height 9.5 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm
Weight 88 g 70 g 94 g 80 g
MTBF 1,000,000 h 1,000,000 h 1,000,000 h 1,200,000 h
Operating Temperature n/a n/a n/a 0-70°C
Specified Idle Power (Low Power) 0.19W 0.44W 0.48W 0.06W
Measured Idle Power (Low Power) 0.50W 0.4W 0.5W 0.08W
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Manufacturer OCZ OCZ OCZ Super Talent
Family Summit Vertex Vertex Turbo UltraDrive ME
Model Number OCZSSD2-1SUM120G OCZSSD2-1VTX120G OCZSSD2-1VTXT120G FTM28GX25H
Tested Capacities 120GB 120GB 120GB 128GB
Other Capacities 60, 250GB 30, 60, 250GB 30, 60, 250GB 32, 64, 256GB
Rotational Speed (RPM) Flash MLC Flash MLC Flash MLC Flash MLC
Controller Samsung Indilinx Indilinx Indilinx
Form Factor 2.5" 2.5" 2.5" 2.5"
Interface SATA/300 SATA/300 SATA/300 SATA/300
Cache (MB) 128MB 64MB 64MB (180 MHz) 64MB
NCQ yes yes yes yes
Height 9.5 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm
Weight 98 g 92 g 94 g 68 g
MTBF 1,500,000 h 1,500,000 h 1,500,000 h 1,000,000 h
Operating Temperature 0-70°C 0-70°C 0-70°C 0-70°C
Specified Idle Power (Low Power) 0.17W 0.47W 0.45W 0.44W
Measured Idle Power (Low Power) 0.50W 0.50W 0.50W 0.40W

 Test Setup

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System Hardware
Hardware Details
CPU Intel Core i7-920 (45nm, 2.66 GHz, 8 MB L2 Cache)
Motherboard (Socket 1366) Supermicro X8SAX Revision: 1.0,  Chipset Intel X58 + ICH10R, BIOS: 1.0B
RAM 3 x 1GB DDR3-1333 Corsair CM3X1024-1333C9DHX
HDD Seagate NL35 400GB ST3400832NS, 7,200 RPM, SATA/150, 8 MB Cache
Power Supply OCZ EliteXstream 800W OCZ800EXS-EU
Benchmarks
Performance Measurements h2benchw 3.12PCMark Vantage 1.0
I/O Performance IOMeter 2006.07.27Fileserver-BenchmarkWebserver-benchmarkDatabase-BenchmarkWorkstation-BenchmarkStreaming ReadsStreaming Writes
System Software and Drivers
Driver Details
Operating System Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
Intel Chipset 9.1.0.1007
AMD Graphics Radeon 8.12
Intel Matrix Storage 8.7.0.1007