Corsair Nova 128GB SSD Review

Written by Harry Butler

April 12, 2010 | 08:02

Tags: #128gb-ssd #32nm #benchmark #comparison #performance #quiet-computing #rated #recommended #score #ssd

Companies: #corsair #indilinx #test

AS SSD Benchmark Results

Website: AS SSD

AS SSD is a freeware benchmarking tool designed just for SSDs, performing a battery of sequential read and write, as well as random read and write tests and sequential access times over a 3GB portion of the drive. As Windows 7's caching technology makes using more real world based tests like FC-Test almost impossible, this is the next best thing for judging sequential read and write speeds, as well as producing accurate access times and being wonderfully easy to use.

AS SSD also includes a a sub-suite of copy benchmarks with various different file patterns, but we found this was unable to offer reproducable results. We've also not included the 4K random read/write and 4k-64 Thread random read/write figures, as we feel Iometer is fairer representation of random performance.

AS SSD

Sequential Read

  • Intel X25-M 160GB (02HD firmware, clean)
  • Intel X25-M 160GB (02HD firmware, dirty)
  • Corsair Nova 128GB (clean)
  • Corsair Nova 128GB (dirty)
  • G.Skill Falcon 2 128GB (clean)
  • G.Skill Falcon 2 128GB (dirty)
  • OCZ Vertex 128GB (v1.5 firmware, clean)
  • OCZ Vertex 128GB (v1.5 firmware, dirty)
  • Corsair P128 (19C1Q firmware, clean)
  • Corsair P128 (19C1Q firmware, dirty)
  • Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB (fastest hard disk)
  • 257
  • 257
  • 244
  • 227
  • 238
  • 236
  • 226
  • 225
  • 224
  • 214
  • 141
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50
100
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MB/sec, higher is better

AS SSD

Sequential Write

  • Corsair P128 (19C1Q firmware, clean)
  • Corsair P128 (19C1Q firmware, dirty)
  • Corsair Nova 128GB (clean)
  • Corsair Nova 128GB (dirty)
  • G.Skill Falcon 2 128GB (clean)
  • G.Skill Falcon 2 128GB (dirty)
  • OCZ Vertex 128GB (v1.5 firmware, clean)
  • OCZ Vertex 128GB (v1.5 firmware, dirty)
  • Intel X25-M 160GB (02HD firmware, clean)
  • Intel X25-M 160GB (02HD firmware, dirty)
  • Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB (fastest hard disk)
  • 181
  • 170
  • 180
  • 175
  • 178
  • 174
  • 159
  • 159
  • 104
  • 104
  • 143
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50
100
150
200
MB/sec, higher is better

For analysis of these results, please see the Results Analysis page.
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