Maximum Read / Write

Sisoft Sandra's disk benchmark allows us to run a synthetic test on the various drives which are being reviewed today, letting us see an average read/write rating as well as the peak speed achieved on each model.

So in the first of our tests it is pretty clear that there is one drive which leads the rest in terms of performance. The Vertex 3 hits over 500MB/s on read, just about edging over it on write operations too. The Intel drive comes close to matching this, finishing 21MB/s behind on Read operations but it and the Crucial alternative fall far behind on write operations.