AS SSD Benchmark

[nsa666]

(thanks at hagar for providing the OCZVertex-Screenshot)

I am developing a new benchmark especially for Solid State Drives.
The benefits of my benchmark are:
* Good precision of results
* Simplicity of use
* Optimized for SSD
* Screenshot-function
* It's freeware

Min. sys req:
* Windows XP/Vista/7
* .NET Framework 3.0
* An SSD to test with 3gb free space on it

Known bugs:


Feel free to report your experiences and results here.

P.S.: sorry my bad english.

If you want to support this tool:


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Download: ->HERE<-

German Support: ->HERE<-

P.S.: Use at your own risk! I'm not responsible for any damage it can cause to your data or hardware.

[m.oreilly]

very nice, nsa666 :thumbs:

[tyranid]

What does the 4K Async mean?

[nsa666]

4k-Async means that 64-Threads reads(or writes) 4k-random-blocks at the same time. That simulates typical program-start(or installation). It also shows if controller optimizations working good.

[Pyrolistical]

So that should be multi-threaded, instead of async. async can occur on one thread

You should also do a plot of random 4k read/write vs number of threads

This would tell us how much parallelization can occur before you loose to overhead

[nsa666]

@Pyrolistical: it is async for the drive(not async for the thread), but ok i will rename it. 4k read/write vs number of threads would take long time on a single vertex(and the performance would fall with every test because lack of trim). But that could be a good additional test. I'll think about it. Thank you.

[Pyrolistical]

just have your app call trim between tests

[nsa666]

The App is not for Vertex SSDs only. And that TRIM-tool is Controller-specific(and dont work with Win7 x64 in RAID-mode).

Edit:

Update:
0.8.3450.36572
- Translation fixes

[tyranid]

Edited:

[nsa666]

@tyranid


You can also use the text-copy function:

AS SSD Benchmark 0.8.3450.36572
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Name: FTM64GX25H
Firmware: 1571
Interface: SCSI
Size: 59,62 GB
Date: 12.06.2009 21:45:33
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Sequential:
------------------------------
Read: 163,97 MB/s
Write: 66,27 MB/s
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4K:
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Read: 21,26 MB/s
Write: 6,05 MB/s
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4K-64Threads:
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Read: 53,84 MB/s
Write: 5,43 MB/s
------------------------------
Access Times:
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Read: 0,174 ms
Write: 0,718 ms
------------------------------

[Pyrolistical]

I guess we'll just have to wait until trim is implemented in the FW for your tool to be fair

[nsa666]

It just shows the actual performance. The developers of SSDs should know how they can make it better. Win7-compatbile-Trim should help a lot. Or you just run the TRIM-Tool befor testing.

[HDCHOPPER]

Thanks for this new tool .....

AS SSD Benchmark 0.8.3450.36572
------------------------------
Name: Vertex SS
Firmware:
Interface: SCSI
Size: 80.00 GB
Date: 6/12/2009 1:42:45 PM
Bemerkung: 1-Vertex & 2- Solids in raid 0 (all 30 gig's)
------------------------------
Sequential:
------------------------------
Read: 400.62 MB/s
Write: 251.60 MB/s
------------------------------
4K:
------------------------------
Read: 19.24 MB/s
Write: 3.88 MB/s
------------------------------
4K-64Threads:
------------------------------
Read: 53.03 MB/s
Write: 3.78 MB/s
------------------------------
Access Times:
------------------------------
Read: 0.194 ms
Write: 1.249 ms
------------------------------

[nsa666]

@HDCHOPPER I see a translation-bug in text-mode. thank you for finding it. It seems that the 2 solids slows your random-writes down.

[HDCHOPPER]

Yes thay do but I cant feel it in usage ..
& your welcome glad to help anyone that helps the forum members