Performance

Next, I ran the Striker through our SSD benchmark suite and while doing that I also made a few adjustments to our testing. To start things off though I benchmarked the Striker in CrystalDiskMark both on the read and write. On the read performance, the Striker came in close but just slightly above the Corsair Force LX drive that I recently covered. This puts the Striker up at the top of our charts in the Sequential read performance with a read speed of 547.1. Unlike the Force LX though when it comes to write performance the Striker dominated with a write speed of 530.8. The write speed at 4k with a queue depth of 32 is slightly lower than the OCZ drives, but was still respectable.

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Next I ran through the AS SSD Copy Benchmark that copies files simulating a few different situations that you will run into in real life. These results are displayed in the time it took to copy the file so the lower the number the better. As we can see The Striker was near the top of the charts in the game benchmark with the Corsair drive edging out just slightly. In the program test the Striker does have the fastest time and the same can be said with the ISO test as well with a considerably faster time on that one than anything else tested.

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Next using Passmark I use the benchmark programs advanced disk benchmark. Here we run four tests that simulate four different usage situations. Here the web server benchmark was right at the top of the charts with the OCZ drives. But the file server test took a big hi and was much lower than most of the other drives. Here we can see that the Striker isn’t perfect and has its own weakness’s.

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For real world testing, I ran the Striker through the extremely long PCMark 8 benchmark. We have been using the overall score to compare drives but I will admit that it looks like we might have to rethink that decision given how close each of these three drives are in the results.

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So the big change I made to our SSD testing I removed IOMeter as it is an older unsupported benchmark and replaced it with Anvil’s Storage Utilities. I am still using this test to see IOPS though. I set the benchmark to a Compression setting of 46% to find middle ground. I use the 4K QD16 result on both read and write as well. So the Striker comes in at the top by a large margin on the read performance but for write performance it is down below the Force LX. Ironically this is the same Force LX that has really poor write performance in sequential benchmarks lol.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #36464 20 Mar 2015 23:47
I think some of you guys will appreciate that starting today and leading up until just after the LAN I will be publishing almost all SSD reviews. It wasn't planned out, but it does have a LanOC STORRAGE feel to it.

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