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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.
As expected the OCZ RevoDrive 120GB is extremely good when it comes to large file handling. Unfortunately, while this makes the RevoDrive a great Photoshop scratch disk, or temp file drive for de-muxing Blu-Ray’s it is not all that important in an operating system environment. When it comes to the crucial small file handling abilities of the RevoDrive, it actually falls back a couple of paces. It still is very, very powerful but it is outclassed by single SandForce solutions such as the Vertex 2 line of drives.
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.
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<img src="http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image/akg/Storage/revo/copy_sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" />
<img src="http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image/akg/Storage/revo/copy_self.jpg" border="0" alt="" />
As expected the OCZ RevoDrive 120GB is extremely good when it comes to large file handling. Unfortunately, while this makes the RevoDrive a great Photoshop scratch disk, or temp file drive for de-muxing Blu-Ray’s it is not all that important in an operating system environment. When it comes to the crucial small file handling abilities of the RevoDrive, it actually falls back a couple of paces. It still is very, very powerful but it is outclassed by single SandForce solutions such as the Vertex 2 line of drives.
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