Review

  1. Introduction
  2. Packaging and Specification
  3. Closer look
  4. Test Bench and Methodology
  5. AS SSD Benchmark (Pass 3)
  6. ATTO (Pass 3) Benchmark)
  7. AIDA 64 Access Test
  8. Boot Load Test
  9. TRIM Test
  10. CrystalDiskMark Benchmark
  11. HD Tune Pro Benchmark
  12. PC Mark Vantage x64 HDD Benchmark
  13. PC Mark 7 HDD Benchmark
  14. Anvil SSD Benchmark
  15. Conclusion

It gives me great pleasure and a relief to mention this every time I put up a review. In a country where you get minimum hardware support from the manufacturers to review their own products and others on behalf of the readers, its some companies such as Asus, Gigabyte, Kingston, Western Digital and Coolermaster who give me hardware support by updating my test rig no strings attached. Thumbs up to these guys!

I would like to thank

  • Gigabyte India for providing Gigabyte 890GPA UD3H Rev 1.0 motherboard
  • Asus India for providing Asus 990FX Sabertooth motherboard
  • Kingston Taiwan for providing hardware support with memory kits and SSD drive.
  • WD India for providing WD 300GB HLFS Velociraptor Hard Drive.
  • Coolermaster India for providing Coolermaster GX450 RS-450-ACAA-D3 Power Supply

Test Setup for: WD Red 3.0TB SATA III Drive (WD30EFRZX)
Motherboard+ Processor Gigabyte 890GPAUD3H Rev 1.0+ AMD 965BE
Memory Kingston KHX1600C9D3P1K28G HyperX Genesis 8GB 1600MHz DDRIII
Primary OS drive WD 3000HLFS Velociraptor 300GB/WD 320GB BLUE 320AAJS
Power Supply Corsair TX750
Chassis Corsair C-70

The Benchmarks that I am using are as follows:

AS SSD (Pass 3) Read and Write (Pass 3)

ATTO (Pass 3) Test File Size= 0.5 to 8MB- Read and Write Pass 3

Aida64 Access Test Write and Read Access time File Size 64KB Pass 3

Boot Load Test (Windows 7 SP1 clean installation with AMD 12.6 drivers+ AHCI drivers pre-installed with Utorrent, Avira Security Suite, Asus Xonar DX+ 7.12.8.1794 Drivers, Netgear WG111 Wireless Lan USB drive software as start-up items) Pass 1-5 (Pass 1= System start from Power Off)

TRIM Tests: Tested by comparing PCMark Vantage HDD scores with SSDs with Clean, 50% Fill, 75% Fill, idle for 1 hour for TRIM testing.

CrystalDisk Benchmark with Pass 3, each with 5 re-runs 1000MB File Size

HDtune Pro Write and Read Pass 3

PCMark 7 HDD test

PCMark Vantage HDD Test

Anvil Benchmark: 4/16/32GB File Size in both 0% and 100% Fill test

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