G.Skill Falcon 128GB SSD Review

Read Bandwidth

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.


With an average speed this high, you KNOW the Falcon is a fast drive! An average speed of darn near 230MB/s from a single “hard drive” would have been considered impossible just a few years back and yet here we are!

The lower burst speed is par for the course with Indilinx drives but it may have more to do with that particular controller not getting along with the way HDTach records burst speeds than an out and out issue with the Barefoot controller per say. In either case, burst speeds are not that important and even if they were this drive's burst speed is still awfully good and only looks “bad” when compared with its monstrously huge average.

Write Performance

For this benchmark HD Tune Pro was used. To run the write benchmark on a drive, you must first remove all partitions from that drive and then and only then will it allow you to run this test. Unlike some other benchmarking utlities the HD Tune Pro writes across the full area of the drive, thus it easily shows any weakness a drive may have.

While most OS drives spend most of their times reading and not writing, the write speed of the drive does have a big impact on the stutter issue and how fast the drive feels.


194MB/S average write speed is even more phenomenal than the read speed numbers this monster posted! Even better than the average was the minimum speed which is almost more than double that of the mighty WD VelociRaptor and is more than double that of the Intel X-25M. If you do not find that impressive…turn in your PC enthusiast badge as you must have cheated on the super secret entrance exam.