Performance
Performance Tests
In CrystalDiskmark our sample peaked at a whopping 360MB/s, which is nearly 100MB/s faster than the Intel X25-M which came in second place. This excellent performance continues throughout the read tests with it coming at or near the top of the pile. When writing data sequentially the drive mixes it with the Intel X25-M, but is ultimately slower than the competition. This situation changes when we switch to 4k files sizes which is more controller bottlenecked. Here the Crucial is the fastest of our three drives.
In HDTach the drive continues to impress, peaking at 347MB/s in the sequential test. For sequential writes it just breaches the 80MB/s mark; still more than respectable.
Synthetic tests showcasing sequential read speed rarely paint a full picture, however, so we also ran the PC Vantage HDD Testing suite.
Intel’s extremely well-optimised SSD has long dominated this benchmark and the C300 does nothing to change that today. Even so, with a score of above 35,000 the drive is certainly no slouch. When burrowing into the individual sub-test results we find a familiar pattern. The C300 excels at read-oriented tests but is slower than other models when faced with copying and writing data. To put it into perspective the C300’s overall score is still 8x faster than that of a fast conventional 7200rpm hard disk.
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