Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue Review: WD Enters the Consumer SSD Market
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 3, 2010 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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The Test
| CPU | Intel Core i7 965 running at 3.2GHz (Turbo & EIST Disabled) |
| Motherboard: | Intel DX58SO (Intel X58) |
| Chipset: | Intel X58 + Marvell SATA 6Gbps PCIe |
| Chipset Drivers: | Intel 9.1.1.1015 + Intel IMSM 8.9 |
| Memory: | Qimonda DDR3-1333 4 x 1GB (7-7-7-20) |
| Video Card: | eVGA GeForce GTX 285 |
| Video Drivers: | NVIDIA ForceWare 190.38 64-bit |
| Desktop Resolution: | 1920 x 1200 |
| OS: | Windows 7 x64 |
Sequential Read/Write Speed
Using the latest build of Iometer I ran a 3 minute long 2MB sequential test over the entire span of the drive. The results reported are in average MB/s over the entire test length:
Read speed is a bit lower than we're used to seeing, but at 235.7MB/s this is almost twice as fast as a VelociRaptor. In the SSD space, the SiliconEdge Blue performs like the lower end of the Indilinx drives.
Sequential write speed is again much faster than any hard drive (2.5" or 3.5"), and compared to SSDs the SiliconEdge Blue is similar to an Indilinx based drive.
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The0ne - Monday, March 8, 2010 - link
Sorry, but it's price. The technology WILL improve this year. Just based on what you've said, you're talking about the drives being 50% faster than 1960s tech. That's really not saying much as we all know the HD is the bottleneck.I really would like to have a speedy SSD but I'm not going to spend that much on so little (space), even if I could afford them. Just wait a bit more this year and we'll see competition driving prices down :)
coolkev99 - Thursday, March 4, 2010 - link
But yeah.. the price is waaay to high.leexgx - Thursday, March 4, 2010 - link
on this site they managed to make the SSD do the dreaded 0.02MB/s Write issues that the 602 or 602b had under Random Write loads it was doing 2 IOPS as well
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1233/6/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1233/6/
leexgx - Thursday, March 4, 2010 - link
this shows bit more of the issue not been able to keep up under constant Write load doing 0.02MB/shttp://www.legitreviews.com/article/1233/5/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1233/5/
my last link was relating to IOPS