I'm sorry but I should be able to benchmark my drive and see results without having to buy a program.just like I have with *every other drive I've ever owned". But at a little less than $2 per GB, I'm unhappy.
Lastly, my boot time INCREASED several seconds after installing it, which isn't comforting.Īgain, for a small amount of money spent, I'd just write it off because I got more space (128 to 240GB). My stock 2010 Toshiba drive was *WAY* faster based on what I'm seeing as results of *any free benchmark test I run*. For $430 for 240GB of space, and promises like "Up to 68% faster than factory SSD in real world uses.sustained writes up to 275MB/s".based on what I'm seeing, not only is it not true, it's NOT EVEN CLOSE TO TRUE. If this was a $100 drive, then "whatever" would be my attitude. Someone care to help me understand this? I would greatly appreciate it. DIY testing has it's place, but there is a reason these tests are free " If you are adamant about benchmarking SSDs, professionals would tell you QuickBench is the way to go. When this test was developed SSDs like ours didn't exist. The test is based on compression, and even worse it's designed for HD only, so I am not surprised to see the numbers skewed on an SSD. "I'm sorry, but it's the same story here. I then sent a picture in of an XBench comparison of the stock 2011 Samsung SSD vs my OWC 240GB Mercury Aura Pro (since I'd already sent screenshots in from the results of Black Magic's results). Otherwise I assure you everything is looking great, the problem is some drives handle compression differently and that test is not the same it used to be." We recommend an uncompressed test, a true benchmark like SpeedTools QuickBench if you are looking to see max numbers of your machine. The test you are using was recently updated according to their site, and the write test is now compressed itself for a faster test but that results in lower numbers. "Our SSD uses a feature similar to compression for faster performance. I have yet to find a free version of that program compatible with Lion. Repeated emails to OWC with screen shots resulted in them telling me that any test that's not SpeedTools QuickBench is not worth looking at.