IOMeter is another open source synthetic benchmarking tool which is able to simulate the various loads placed on hard drive and solid state drive technology.
We test with both 4k random read and 4k random write, as shown above.
IOPS performance is certainly not lacking, scoring around 73k write and 65k read in the 4k random tests. This is considerably higher than almost all of the LSI Sandforce 2281 drives we have tested recently. Even the high performance ADATA XPG SX910 256GB which we reviewed last week is outperformed by this Agility 4 256GB.
thats a great deal, I still use a small crucial drive for boot, but its too small and I need an upgrade. the 128gB version of this would be ideal, but I would assume its slower?
How are ARIA managing that price, its £30 less than a few other bigger stores in the UK?
good deals all round on SSD’s right now. there is a big sale on ebuyer for Kingston, £50 for a 120GB 🙂