Patriot Torqx M28 256GB SSD Review
HD Tune 3.50
HD Tune is a hard disk utility which has the following functions:
- Benchmark: measures the raw performance
- Transfer Rate
- Access Time
- CPU Usage
- Burst Rate
- Random Access test
- Write benchmark
- Hard Disk information which includes partition information, supported features, firmware version, serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode
- Hard Disk Health
- S.M.A.R.T. Information (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
- Power On Time
- Error scan
- Temperature display
We are using the default setting of 64KB blocks for testing which might result in different results from other benchmarks as you will see in the write tests with a used SSD.
Read Test
Read performance of the used SSD takes a hit more than what was observed in the previous benchmarks but it is still faster than a HDD. Compare the access times of a SSD to those of HDD. It only takes 0.1ms on a new SSD to access a file while it takes 14.1ms to access a file on one of the fastest HDDs in the market. This is what is called responsiveness of your computer. When you launch an application on a HDD, it takes 14.1 ms for the HDD to access the files to launch the application. 14.1ms may not seem much, but having an application like Photoshop that loads all the brushes and plugins at start up, that little 14.1ms can amount to a lot of seconds. With a SSD and an access time of only 0.1s, any file in any page on the drive can be accessed almost instantly leading to faster load times.
Write Test
The SSD shows completely unacceptable performance scoring only 6.4 MB/s average. (Note: The test was done with 64KB blocks, so this is not representative of transfer speeds of all sized files.) Otherwise, the SSD is faster than the HDD on writes and access time is really really low. The performance is regained with the new TRIM supporting firmware.
Random Read Test
The Patriot SSD shows a low access time across a variety of file sizes compared to a HDD. Also compare the IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) of a SSD to HDD. While a SSD can do nearly 13000 512 bytes IOPS, a HDD can only manage 70.
Random Write Test
Once again the SSD shows horrible performance in used state. It only manages 6 write IOPS and access time has ballooned to 155ms compared to 65 IOPS and 15ms in new state. But once the firmware supports TRIM, all is well and helps maintain like new performance.
File Benchmark test
Write speeds are affected in used state, but the new firmware recovers the speed.
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When comparing stats, such as the “File Benchmark test”, it would be helpful to maintain the same vertical scale across the four configurations. It is impossible to compare like this, particularly at the chart sizes used.
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