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It doesn’t matter how good any of the synthetic suites are, the real meat of the testing has to be under absolute real world conditions. This proves difficult as to record results we have to narrow down fluctuation. Therefore while we would say these are the most useful results to get from this review, there is always going to be a slight margin for error – its not absolutely scientific.
Firstly we installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition onto each of the drives and performed a clean update from Microsoft with all patches and security fixes. We then install a basic suite of software, such as Office, Firefox and Adobe Design, then we install AVG free antivirus. We used a digital watch for this startup and repeated the test five times for each drive – once we had these five results we averaged the results and took that for the final figure.
The same speed as the other Sandforce 2281 powered drives, with a total time of 22 seconds.
The drive took 18 seconds to load the game, mirroring results over multiple runs. This is only a single second slower than the MAX IOPS drive, which scores 17 seconds.
Impressive bundle, price isn’t bad for the size. Will they be releasing a 128GB? Obviously I would expect so.
Excellent, although they are all so good, its really down to the best deal. This one seems actually very competitive.
OCUK dont seem to have the bundle with theirs though? unless its listed badly.
First time ive ever seen a company give away a screwdriver, cool idea.
How much cheaper is the non bundle deal version?
They put a lot of work into the bundle. I like that software, I bought it last year and its great for switching out drives.
For those of us with a tighter budget, the Kingston HyperX 120GB 2.5″ SATA-3 Solid State Drive: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-017-KS&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427
Thanks fisshy, thats much more realistic. for me anyway.
I like their products, good to see them moving out of the value sector in with the big players like OCZ.
this will drop to under £400 for christmas., probably £370.
Its too muich for me, but power users will probably buy 2 for raid 0. I think kingston are trying hard to get rid of their stuffy appearance and its working.
SOmeone else said it, but it is all about price in this sector. they are all very close as can be seen, so the best deal is the one id go for.
IOMeter results would have been interesting, too, given that Kingston claims the highes IOPS values of any of these sandforce drives.