The development of SSD and testing goals

Due to the decreasing price and diversified application of SSD, the consumptive market increases greatly and enterprise clients grow stably, leading to the annual rise of shipment. DRAMeXchange specializes in the accurate test and the comprehensive comparison between mainstream and advanced SSD products in the market, which will fully reflect the SSD performance and help purchasers have a better understanding about the latest SSD transfer rate and performance.

Project Benefits

• Introduce main SSD makers to raise product sales
• Promote brand exposure
• Confirm product performance by DRAMeXchange expertise
• Consolidate the maker's position and competitive edge in memory market

2010 New Generation SSD Performance Test

Product Evaluation

Evaluation type

• NAND Flash applied in SSD is divided into two types of expensive and effective-writing SLC and cheap and effective-reading MLC
• Based on price, capacity and efficiency, it is divided into two types of 60GB (consumption type) and 120GB (enterprising type)

Content The comparison chart of four testing scores A. HD Tune Pro- test data rate B. CrystalDiskMark- test writing & reading rate C. Iometer-test I/O performance D. Disk Utility Programme-Linux testing platform The score comparison of product classification The specification list of products The description of evaluation articles

Project Presentation

Single Product Introduction

• Picture and specification/performance introduction of each SSD product
• Promote brand image and product awareness

Testing Elements

• 4 testing items classified by price and performance
• SSD Performance test
• About 30 makers involved in the test
• Completed by the end of April in 2011
• Special comment of DRAMeXchange analyst
• Testing results on Chinese/English websites for globalization

Testing items

Major Items:Comprehensive scores tested by Disc testing software

• transfer rate
• access time
• boot time
• copy large and small files
• insert large and small files

Additional Items

• cost/performance ratio
• Warranty
• Temp
• industrial design(ID)

Testing Platform / Software

Specification of Testing Platform

• Motherboard:GIGABYTE P67
• CPU:Intel Core i5 2400 quad-core 3.16GHz LGA
• Memory:DDR 3 Size 1GB*2
• Operating System:Microsoft Windows 7 / Ubuntu Linux

Testing Software

• HD Tune Pro
• CrystalDiskMark
• Iometer
• Disc utility program (Linux Platform)

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Press Release

2011 SSD Performance Test-Test Project