Testing

Sisoft Sandra is our friend today when it comes to benching this little guy. For those of you that don’t know, Sandra is a multi benchmarking and system analysis tool. It not only tests the speed of certain parts of your computer, it also tells you ever little bit of information you could ever want to know about it. It also features a burn-in tool, for when you first get that CPU and want to wear it in, or if you just want to temperature test your hardware.

The first test I ran was a simple file transfer speed test. The little drive gave us quite an impressive 29mb/s, nice and quick.

A few other tests Sandra can do, is measure the operations per/min and the kb/s the drive has for different file sizes. So for all you tech heads, here’s a print out from Sandra’s report:

512B Files Test
Read Performance : 49182 operation(s)/min (410 kB/sec, 2x)
Write Performance : 1763 operation(s)/min (15 kB/sec, 0x)
Delete Performance: 18858 operation(s)/min
File Fragments: 1.0
Combined Index: 5329 operation(s)/min

32kB Files Test
Read Performance: 26727 operation(s)/min (14254 kB/sec, 80x)
Write Performance: 2840 operation(s)/min (1515 kB/sec, 8x)
Delete Performance: 18434 operation(s)/min
File Fragments : 1.0
Combined Index : 7491 operation(s)/min

256kB Files Test
Read Performance : 6833 operation(s)/min (29154 kB/sec, 165x)
Write Performance : 2641 operation(s)/min (11268 kB/sec, 64x)
Delete Performance : 17654 operation(s)/min
File Fragments : 1.0
Combined Index : 4829 operation(s)/min

2MB Files Test
Read Performance : 957 operation(s)/min (32666 kB/sec, 185x)
Write Performance : 436 operation(s)/min (14882 kB/sec, 84x)
Delete Performance : 16153 operation(s)/min
File Fragments : 1.0
Combined Index : 756 operation(s)/min

64MB Files Test
Read Performance : 30 operation(s)/min (32768 kB/sec, 186x)
Write Performance : 15 operation(s)/min (16384 kB/sec, 93x)
Delete Performance : 7409 operation(s)/min
File Fragments : 1.0
Combined Index : 25 operation(s)/min