OCZ ARC 100 240GB Solid State Drive Review

CrystalDiskMark

CrystalDiskMark is a small HDD benchmark utility for your hard drive that enables you to rapidly measure sequential and random read/write speeds.

Here are some key features of “CrystalDiskMark”:

• Sequential reads/writes
• Random 4KB/512KB reads/writes
• Text copy
• Change dialog design
• internationalization (i18n)

Unconditioned

Conditioned

CrystalDiskMark shows a steady flow over the whole scale in its real world performance tests. Again, the ARC doesn’t let us down in it’s category.

Drive Comparison

For the purpose of drive comparison I use the performance figures from both unconditioned and conditioned tests with 0% data fill.

Again we see the OCZ drives at the bottom of the list that is sorted by high read speeds, but the write speeds continue to impress. In this test we don’t see any noticeable difference to the drive with 4 years simulated work on it compared to fresh out of the box.