PCMark Vantage proves that both SSDs beat the hell out of any hard drive. More importantly, we find that the two SSD designs perform similarly in a synthetic metric modeled after real-world Windows-based workloads, although the mSATA drive comes with less memory channels. It’s good to see that the impact on such a standard benchmark is rather small. Then again, if the 2.5" drive was designed with a SATA 6Gb/s interface in mind, or a faster controller, we'd probably see more differentiation between these two implementations.
Summary
- SSD Form Factors, Explored
- Another mSATA Example: Samsung MZMPA064
- Form Factor Comparison
- System Example: Samsung Series 9 Notebook
- Comparison Table And Benchmark Setup
- Benchmark Results: Access Time And I/O Performance
- Benchmark Results: Sequential Read/Write
- Benchmark Results: Random Reads/Writes
- Benchmark Results: PCMark Vantage
- Benchmark Results: Power Requirements
- Summary: Cost, Cost/GB, And Performance
- Conclusion
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