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SATA 2 Performance
In a perfect world everyone investing in a new solid state drive would have access to a SATA 6Gb/s controller which could pass on the TRIM command. In reality not everyone has this and for many the decision comes down either giving up TRIM – never a good idea with most controllers – and running it off a secondary controller; or taking a performance hit and running in SATA 2.0 mode.
These tests will consist of some of our real world and synthetic benchmarks run on our standard 1155 test-bed; but the drive will be attached to an SATA 2 port.
For synthetic we have opted for the newcomer to our charts: Anvil Storage Utilities Pro. For real world we have opted for our Adobe test. These two tests should give you a very good idea of the level of performance impact you can expect from running a modern SATA 6 drive in compatibility mode.
Since this driver relies on ONFi 1 NAND and a software based solution it comes as no surprise to see it perform very well in SATA 2 mode. It simply doesn't saturate the bandwidth limits of SATA 2. This increased tolerance to lack of SATA 6gb/s interface coupled with reasonable CPU load requirements, makes the Synapse a good choice for older computer systems – something that we couldn't say about the RevoDrive Hybrid.
SATA 2 Performance
In a perfect world everyone investing in a new solid state drive would have access to a SATA 6Gb/s controller which could pass on the TRIM command. In reality not everyone has this and for many the decision comes down either giving up TRIM – never a good idea with most controllers – and running it off a secondary controller; or taking a performance hit and running in SATA 2.0 mode.
These tests will consist of some of our real world and synthetic benchmarks run on our standard 1155 test-bed; but the drive will be attached to an SATA 2 port.
For synthetic we have opted for the newcomer to our charts: Anvil Storage Utilities Pro. For real world we have opted for our Adobe test. These two tests should give you a very good idea of the level of performance impact you can expect from running a modern SATA 6 drive in compatibility mode.



Since this driver relies on ONFi 1 NAND and a software based solution it comes as no surprise to see it perform very well in SATA 2 mode. It simply doesn't saturate the bandwidth limits of SATA 2. This increased tolerance to lack of SATA 6gb/s interface coupled with reasonable CPU load requirements, makes the Synapse a good choice for older computer systems – something that we couldn't say about the RevoDrive Hybrid.
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