G.Skill Falcon 128GB SSD Review

Random Access Time

To obtain the absolute, most accurate Random access time, h2benchw was used for this benchmark. This benchmark tests how quickly different areas of the drive’s memory can be accessed. A low number means that the drive space can be accessed quickly while a high number means that more time is taken trying to access different parts of the drive. To run this program, one must use a DOS prompt and tell it what sections of the test to run. While one could use “h2benchw 1 -english -s -tt "harddisk test" -w test” for example and just run the seek tests, we took the more complete approach and ran the full gamout of tests and then extracted the necessary information from the text file. This is the command line argument we used “h2benchw 1 -a -! -tt "harddisk drivetest" -w drivetest”. This tells the program to write all results in english, save them in drivetest txt file, do write and read tests and do it all on drive 1 (or the second drive found, with 0 being the OS drive).


For all intents and purposes this drive is just as fast as the Intel X-25. Honestly, when you get down to differences of 0.01ms you really are cutting hairs and looking awfully hard for nits to pick. We consider both the Indilinx based Falcon and the Intel X-25M to be in a league all their own, and masters of a field which is known for ultra low latencies!

SIS Sandra

This test was run with the removable storage benchmark in Sandra XII Standard. All of the scores are calculated in operations per second and have been averaged out from the scores of 4 test runs.


For whatever reason, the fuzzy logic of SISoft does not like this drive as much as some others. Is that a big deal? No, as this is easily the most schizophrenic test ever invented. Run this “test” 10 times and you will get a different answer every time. Needless to say the results are not bad, but in reality it’s like worrying about who placed 3rd in the Special Olympics. Sure it’s important to the people involved but for everyone else….who cares!