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IOMETER
Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. Iometer is pronounced “eye-OM-i-ter,” to rhyme with “thermometer.” Iometer does for a computer’s I/O subsystem what a dynamometer does for an engine: it measures performance under a controlled load. Iometer was formerly known as “Galileo.”
Iometer is both a workload generator (that is, it performs I/O operations in order to stress the system) and a measurement tool (that is, it examines and records the performance of its I/O operations and their impact on the system). It can be configured to emulate the disk or network I/O load of any program or benchmark, or can be used to generate entirely synthetic I/O loads. It can generate and measure loads on single or multiple (networked) systems.
Iometer can be used for measurement and characterization of:
- Performance of disk and network controllers.
- Bandwidth and latency capabilities of buses.
- Network throughput to attached drives.
- Shared bus performance.
- System-level hard drive performance.
- System-level network performance.
We were quite surprised (and disappointed) to see relatively weak random performance from the drive when compared with the Intel and OCZ offerings. The Indilinx controller is clearly superior in this regard. Intel's controller is still literally miles ahead. Time to check out the write performance.
Again we were less than impressed with the random write performance of the drive as it is outclassed by both Intel and OCZ drives. We would have expected more from the new controller but clearly there is still some work to be done by Toshiba. We would hope to see a firmware update in the future help resolve these issues.
Wow thats a wicked bundle. love the little chassis idea for USB on the move.
Weird performance with that one benchmark, might just be a glitch with the app actually
Z how do you keep churning out these quality reviews, thats like 10 in a week. Take a break ! great review btw, drive looks good.
The intel drive is amazing, when you look at those figures, which are amazing already for the other drives, and it just canes them.
Nah, im not sold, I dont like kingston products generally. OCZ for me if I was buying one of these. How the hell is that macintosh booting up so fast btw?
I need to get an SSD, but ill probably opt for a value series, they are still too much money for me. id just like to try one as a boot drive.
I think SSds make more sense in laptops. no moving parts, lower power consumption. not saying they arent great performers, but mechanical drives in Raid 0 still hold up well and cost much less.
Its still £250, the writer makes it sound like its a £20 outlay. hey, its great getting this shit to review for nothing, but £250 pays my mortgage for a month ! wait until they drop to 100 quid then ill get excited!
Almost bought one of these last week then changed my mind. Just changed it again and bought one. thanks
Its nice to see these drives performing so well in the real world. the boot times make me want one, but its a lot of dosh. Maybe next month.
Thats a lovely bundle isnt it ? the caddy and cables etc. I remember the last SSD I bought last year, I had to run out when I realised it didnt even come with a friggin SATA CABLE! kingston needs to get some credit for this really.
SSD rock, but I just had a kid, so out of my price point right now, id be looking a cheap laptop for that price !
I had issues with Kingston in the past, im sure this is a great drive, but their name doesn’t give me a great sense of purchasing confidence. Corsair would be my choice, even though it seems a bit slower overall.
Fab review. I didnt know those applications existed. Just downloaded them and tried my own raptor. embarassing, i need to get a few SSds and raid em up. tried two of this in raid 0 yet zardon?