G. Skill Titan 256GB SSD Review

Real World Data Transfers

No matter how good a synthetic benchmark like IOMeter is, it can not really tell you how your hard drive will perform in “real world” situations. All of us here at Hardware Canucks strive to give you the best, most complete picture of a review item’s true capabilities and to this end we will be running timed data transfers to give you a general idea of how its performance relates to real life use. To help replicate worse case scenarios we will transfer a 4.00GB contiguous RAR file and a folder containing 49 subfolders with a total 2108 files varying in length from 20mb to 1kb (1.00 GB total).

Testing will include transfer too and transferring from the devices, timing each process individually to provide an approximate Read and Write performance. To then stress the dive even more we will then make a copy of the large file to another portion of the same drive and then repeat the process with the small one. This will test the drive to its limits as it will be reading and writing simultaneously. Here is what we found.


For the most part the Titan puts in a very good showing. It may lose out to the X25 on writes but it still is a very, very good second best; one which easily outperforms both the older SLC and MLC drives. However, as we saw in the synthetic benchmarks, and is further backed up by the copy to itself results, this device has been handicapped by RAID controller which is just not powerful enough to completely get the job done. The controller idea certainly has merit and for the most part is a very good option…but it still needs work to be great.