Intel 525 Multi-Capacity SSD Review – mSATA SSDs Just Became Mainstream

AS SSD BENCHMARK VER 1.6

Up until recently, AS SSD was the only benchmark created specifically for SSD testing and it uses incompressible data.  AS SSD, for the most part, gives us the ‘worst case scenario’ in SSD transfer speeds because of its use of incompressible data and many enthusiasts like to AS SSD for their needs.

Examining the different capacities of the Intel SSD 525 left to right, we can see that the Total Score increases significantly and, even a better example of how performance improves with capacity, is seen in the Copy Bench results.  Let’s take a look at the smallest vs the largest first hand.

Looking at these benchmarks, the performance difference, at every level, can be observed.  Looking at the Copy Bench results below renders a more realistic point of view. AS SSD Copy Bench is a very effective benchmark for measuring ‘true to life’ performance.  Through creation of .ISO, Program and Game files, the entire of file is move from one place on the SSD to another, providing the total time of transfer and top transfer speed reached.

It is similar to you moving a movie, music or pictures to or from your system.  The result of the 240GB 525 on the right is excellent with very short transfer duration and all speeds reaching the SATA 3 area.  The result of the 30GB 525 on the left, however, displays that it would take significantly longer to move your data, as much as 7 times longer in the case of the .ISO!

ANVIL STORAGE UTILITIES PROFESSIONAL (BETA)

You may not see this for long (and its definitely not common) but you get a free-bee simply for reading!  Over the last little while, we have been assisting with beta testing new benchmark software called Anvil Storage Utilities which is an absolutely amazing SSD benchmarking utility.  Not only does it have a preset SSD benchmark, but also, it has included such things as endurance testing and threaded I/O read, write and mixed tests, all of which are very simple to understand and utilize in our benchmark testing.

COMPRESSIBLE DATA TESTING

INCOMPRESSIBLE DATA TESTING

Due to space constraints, we have only displayed the Anvil results for the Intel SSD 525 240GB capacity as an opportunity to demonstrate how ATTO falls in line and confirms the results of benchmarks seen thus far.  We can see that utilizing incompressible data samples provides better results and, in fact, the Score of 4353 is one of the highest we have seen with an mSATA SSD.  The top chart also provides IOPS numbers of 87,094 that surpass the specification number of 80,000 IOPS.