Real World Data Transfers / Value
No matter how good a synthetic benchmark like IOMeter or PCMark is, it can not really tell you how your hard drive will perform in “real world” situations. All of us here at Hardware Canucks strive to give you the best, most complete picture of a review item’s true capabilities and to this end we will be running timed data transfers to give you a general idea of how its performance relates to real life use. To help replicate worse case scenarios we will transfer a 4.00GB contiguous RAR file and a folder containing 49 subfolders with a total 2108 files varying in length from 20mb to 1kb (1.00 GB total).
Testing will include transfer to and transferring from the devices, timing each process individually to provide an approximate Read and Write performance. To then stress the dive even more we will then make a copy of the large file to another portion of the same drive and then repeat the process with the small one. This will test the drive to its limits as it will be reading and writing simultaneously. Here is what we found.
This drive is not designed nor marketed to storage related tasks and the numbers above show this. These the F40 and most other budget SSDs are meant to be used as boot drives with a couple of favorite applications installed on them and not as your data collection repository.
The term “Value” is such an amorphous term that it truly has different meanings for different people. For some a hard drive is only as good as its performance potential, for others it is how quiet or durable it is; for others still it’s how effective it is for its cost. We here at HWC try to provide as many answers as possible for the term “Value”. Hopefully by this point in the review people looking at performance potential will have a fairly good idea of what its Value is. For the “best bang for the buck” crowd we have included a chart below showing how much a give drive costs per GB . No consideration has been made for performance, “durability” or any other extraneous factors; this is just raw performance vs. monetary cost. All prices are based on the average lowest price found at Froogle at the time of this review. All prices are in US Dollars.
Please note: where the Kingston SSDNow V 40GB has been discontinued the Intel X25-V 40GB has been substituted.
There is no getting around the fact that this drive is a tad on the expensive side when you consider the Intel X25-V 40GB costs about 20 dollars less. Of course, the Intel drive has been around along time and as such is about as cheap as it is going to get; whereas we have already seen $30 MIR’s on the F40 bringing its price even lower than what we have listed above.
Real World Data Transfers
No matter how good a synthetic benchmark like IOMeter or PCMark is, it can not really tell you how your hard drive will perform in “real world” situations. All of us here at Hardware Canucks strive to give you the best, most complete picture of a review item’s true capabilities and to this end we will be running timed data transfers to give you a general idea of how its performance relates to real life use. To help replicate worse case scenarios we will transfer a 4.00GB contiguous RAR file and a folder containing 49 subfolders with a total 2108 files varying in length from 20mb to 1kb (1.00 GB total).
Testing will include transfer to and transferring from the devices, timing each process individually to provide an approximate Read and Write performance. To then stress the dive even more we will then make a copy of the large file to another portion of the same drive and then repeat the process with the small one. This will test the drive to its limits as it will be reading and writing simultaneously. Here is what we found.
This drive is not designed nor marketed to storage related tasks and the numbers above show this. These the F40 and most other budget SSDs are meant to be used as boot drives with a couple of favorite applications installed on them and not as your data collection repository.
Value
The term “Value” is such an amorphous term that it truly has different meanings for different people. For some a hard drive is only as good as its performance potential, for others it is how quiet or durable it is; for others still it’s how effective it is for its cost. We here at HWC try to provide as many answers as possible for the term “Value”. Hopefully by this point in the review people looking at performance potential will have a fairly good idea of what its Value is. For the “best bang for the buck” crowd we have included a chart below showing how much a give drive costs per GB . No consideration has been made for performance, “durability” or any other extraneous factors; this is just raw performance vs. monetary cost. All prices are based on the average lowest price found at Froogle at the time of this review. All prices are in US Dollars.
Please note: where the Kingston SSDNow V 40GB has been discontinued the Intel X25-V 40GB has been substituted.
There is no getting around the fact that this drive is a tad on the expensive side when you consider the Intel X25-V 40GB costs about 20 dollars less. Of course, the Intel drive has been around along time and as such is about as cheap as it is going to get; whereas we have already seen $30 MIR’s on the F40 bringing its price even lower than what we have listed above.
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