G.Skill Titan 256GB SSD

Written by Harry Butler

January 20, 2009 | 10:24

Tags: #awesome #benchmarks #cache #disk #hard-drive #performance #recommended #scores #speed #ssd #testing

Companies: #gskill #titan

HDTach results

Website: HD Tach 3.0

HD Tach

Burst Speed

  • Intel X25-M 80GB SSD
  • Intel X25-E 32GB SSD
  • Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11
  • Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB
  • Seagate 250GB 7200.10
  • G.Skill Titan 256GB SSD
  • G.Skill 128GB SSD
  • Patriot Warp V.2 128GB SSD
  • Western Digital 150GB 10,000RPM Raptor
  • Seagate 1TB 7200.11
    • 259.9
    • 259.3
    • 248.8
    • 234.6
    • 232.8
    • 224.0
    • 176.0
    • 175.0
    • 134.0
    • 131.0
0
50
100
150
200
250
MB/s (higher is better)
  • Speed (MB/s)

With no dedicated cache, the G.Skill Titan joins the non-Intel SSDs in being some way off the pace in terms of burst speed, although the significant improvement that's obvious in comparison to the single drive controller equipped G.Skill 128GB SSD is very encouraging. That extra 50MB/s of burst hasn't come from something as simple as a cache chip, but rather is a direct indication of the performance improvements offered by using the Titan's dual drive architecture.

HD Tach

Average Read

  • Intel X25-M 80GB SSD
  • Intel X25-E 32GB SSD
  • G.Skill Titan 256GB SSD
  • G.Skill 128GB SSD
  • Patriot Warp V.2 128GB SSD
  • Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11
  • Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB
  • Seagate 1TB 7200.11
  • Seagate 250GB 7200.10
  • Western Digital 150GB 10,000RPM Raptor
    • 237.1
    • 230.0
    • 161.5
    • 142.5
    • 140.0
    • 106.5
    • 92.8
    • 91.1
    • 89.6
    • 82.1
0
50
100
150
200
250
MB/s (higher is better)
  • Speed (MB/s

The average read across the drive is also much improved, and while no where near the doubling of performance, is only 40MB/s off the quoted maximum for the drive and is quite clearly superior to SSDs with a single JMircron drive controller (barring Intel's offerings of course).

HD Tach

Random Access Time

  • Intel X25-M 80GB SSD
  • Intel X25-E 32GB SSD
  • G.Skill Titan 256GB SSD
  • G.Skill 128GB SSD
  • Patriot Warp V.2 128GB SSD
  • Western Digital 150GB 10,000RPM Raptor
  • Seagate 1TB 7200.11
  • Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB
  • Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11
  • Seagate 250GB 7200.10
    • 0.1
    • 0.1
    • 0.2
    • 0.2
    • 0.2
    • 7.8
    • 12.5
    • 13.5
    • 15.0
    • 15.1
0
3
5.5
8
10.5
13
15.5
m/s - less is better
  • Time (milliseconds)

The Titan's response time matches G.Skill's single drive controller equipped 128GB drive, an understandable result as the use of two 128GB drives working as one, while theoretically improving read and write speeds, shouldn't have any effect on a drives response times.
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