Seeing my recent love affair with solid state drives I thought I would test drive one of the latest greatest drives out their the 80GB intel x-25m80GB. Like a child on Christmas morning, I felt true excitement as the generic UPS envelop arrived on my porch today.
While it did not show up until late in the day, I can’t just let it sit their without starting to test it can I?
Benchmarks are running as I write this and I will provide the full breakdown of the drives performance as I finish up the tests.
But to wet your appetite, check this out:
50-50 read/write sysbench test: 1899 IO requests per second!!! Thats huge!!!
Thats compare to the 284 IOPS I got on the memoright GT, a performance improvement of 6.6x, with a higher capacity 80GB -vs- 32GB, and a Lower cost $773 -vs- $680… outstanding!!!
Here are the first unverified sysbench test runs:
| R/W | 1 Raptor | 1 Mtron | 1 Memoright | Intel X-25m |
| 5000/5000 | 172 | 200 | 284 | 1899 |
| 6670/3330 | 164 | 282 | 412 | 1774 |
| 7500/2500 | 159 | 388 | 512 | 1850 |
| 8000/2000 | 165 | 516 | 607 | 1722 |
| 8333/1777 | 176 | 518 | 741 | 1613 |
| 10000/0 | 161 | 5263 | 3844 | 3927 |
| 0/10000 | 200 | 100 | 160 | 2080 |