G. Skill Titan 256GB SSD Review

Read Performance

For this benchmark, HDTach was used. It shows the potential read speed which you are likely to experience with these hard drives. The long test was run to give a slightly more accurate picture.

We don’t put much stock in Burst speed readings and this goes double for SSD based hard drive. The main reason we include it is to show what under perfect conditions a given drive is capable of; but the more important number is the Average Speed number. This number will tell you what to expect from a given drive in normal, day to day operations. The higher the average the faster your entire system will seem.


Well one thing is for certain: this bad boy has power to spare when it comes to read speeds. The average speed is simply phenomenal and the burst is what you would expect from darn near any high end drive out there. If someone had said even just two years ago we would see single drive performance numbers of 166/225+ MB/s we would have laughed. Of course, read speeds are where a RIAD 0 setup shines and if they hadn’t been better than what a regular SSD was capable of we would have been disappointed. It may not be as good as the X-25 but then again the X25 is set up in such away that you have massive parallel lanes which act a heck of a lot like a massive 10 drive RAID 0 setup.