AS SSD is a great free tool designed just for benching Solid State Drives. It performs an array of sequential read and write tests, as well as random read and write tests with sequential access times over a portion of the drive. AS SSD includes a sub suite of benchmarks with various file pattern algorithms but this is difficult in trying to judge accurate performance figures.
AS SSD deals exclusively with incompressible data – causing no problems for the Marvell 88SS9183 controller in the Plextor M6e Black Edition.
Some other comparisons from leading manufacturer drives, which we have tested in recent months.
my RAID 5 array of six 3tb drives is actually faster than this, and instead of 240GB, the array is 14TB…