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

ATTO Disk Benchmark Results

Website: ATTO Disk Benchmark

With Window 7's improved caching technology, our traditional sequential read/write benchmark, FC -Test, was no longer practical, due to data being immediately cached and thus invalidating our copy and read performance figures.

Instead then we've opted for ATTO disk benchmark as a straight forward but surprisingly popular tool for testing a hard disk or SSD's ability to deal with reading and writing files of various sizes. The benchmark sequentially writes and reads files from 0.5KB to 8MB and can also be adjusted for overlapped I/O and a variety of queue depths, although we've tested using the benchmark's default settings, recording 4KB, 64KB and 1024KB performance.

ATTO

1,024KB Sequential Read Speed

  • Intel X25-M 160GB (02HD firmware, clean)
  • Intel X25-M 160GB (02HD firmware, dirty)
  • Corsair Nova 128GB SSD (clean)
  • Corsair Nova 128GB SSD (dirty)
  • G.Skill Falcon 2 128GB (clean)
  • G.Skill Falcon 2 128GB (dirty)
  • OCZ Vertex 128GB (v1.5 firmware, dirty)
  • OCZ Vertex 128GB (v1.5 firmware, clean)
  • Corsair P128 (19C1Q firmware, clean)
  • Corsair P128 (19C1Q firmware, dirty)
  • Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB (fastest hard disk)
  • 266.9
  • 267.5
  • 265.3
  • 264.8
  • 261.5
  • 256.4
  • 257.6
  • 258.3
  • 228.4
  • 223.6
  • 144.0
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MB/sec, higher is better

ATTO

1,024KB Sequential Write Speed

  • OCZ Vertex 128GB (v1.5 firmware, clean)
  • OCZ Vertex 128GB (v1.5 firmware, dirty)
  • Corsair Nova 128GB (clean)
  • Corsair Nova 128GB (dirty)
  • G.Skill Falcon 2 128GB (clean)
  • G.Skill Falcon 2 128GB (dirty)
  • Corsair P128 (19C1Q firmware, clean)
  • Corsair P128 (19C1Q firmware, dirty)
  • Intel X25-M 160GB (02HD firmware, clean)
  • Intel X25-M 160GB (02HD firmware, dirty)
  • Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB (fastest hard disk)
  • 195.6
  • 197.1
  • 193.2
  • 192.3
  • 192.7
  • 187.6
  • 182.0
  • 161.5
  • 105.7
  • 105.7
  • 147.5
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MB/sec, higher is better

For analysis of these results, please see the Results Analysis page.
Discuss this in the forums

Posted by Invectus - Mon Apr 12 2010 07:09

meow

Posted by Aracos - Mon Apr 12 2010 07:11

Page 8, on the first graph the nova is listed as "Clean" twice.

EDIT: Also page 9 the nova is listed in one of the graphs as (dirtyn)

Posted by yakyb - Mon Apr 12 2010 07:25

have to be honest here the first thing i looked at was the price then i skipped the review as there is no way i'm spending that much on an ssd


until they get to ~£1 - £1.20 a GB i will not be buying

Posted by Ph4ZeD - Mon Apr 12 2010 07:49

Another decent SSD, but when are we going to see cheaper drives?
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