SSD comparison Intel/sandforce

[Jakus]

Been having a play with 3 ssd's Intel X25 , Vertex 2E and corsair F60 I was interested regarding the fact that the sandforce controllers compress data while I'm assuming the Intels do not + interested in which drives had a heavier CPU load.

Unfortunately the only things i really learned was synthetic benchmarks are a bit of a waste of time regarding real world performance comparison as the slightly slowest "Intel drive" was the fastest booting windows and starting apps also copying/reading compressed data (if i get a chance I will try and do some more mixed data copying tests)

Bottom line I liked the corsair slightly more than the Vertex but I doubt there is anything in it, but for me the Intel drives are still my favorite and I would bet money,the most consistently reliable with all motherboard controllers and setups

 

[Zarf]

The Sandforce compression doesn't have any impact on CPU usage, It's all done in hardware.

I do agree with you though, most synthetic benchmarks are not especially useful or representative of the real world.
I always found iometer benchmarks interesting, because the intel has a very strong showing here, especially at the low queue depths seen in the home.

 

[Jakus]

I did actually say "the sanforce controller" compresses data I'm sure in all there is some raid type multichannel read/write processing to increase the performance, Just interesting to try and see the effects down the line...the stuff review sites sometimes fail to mention

 

[Dirk]

Above a certain performance threshold it is very difficult to notice real world differences between the different drives. Factors like reliability and customer support should be more important than benchmark results.