Corsair P64 64GB SSD Review

Real World Data Transfers

No matter how good a synthetic benchmark like IOMeter or PCMark 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 containg 49 subfolders with a total 2108 files varying in length from 20mb to 1kb (1.00 GB total).

Testing will include transfer to 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.


Since we have three charts above, let's break this down a bit for you. First of all, when copying large files from the P64, things are quite fast and we would say performance is in-line (considering margin of error) with the best of the best. On the other hand, the other SSDs get trounced by Corsair when it comes to transfering large files TO the drive.

When using smaller files, things are a bit less rosy but the P64 is still able to trounce the majority of HDDs we have tested in the past.

Where this drive really excells is when you want to transfer smaller files around the drive itself; say from folder to folder. This of course is due to that beefy 128MB cache which this drive so obviously needs. It is too bad it needs a crutch like that but any way you slice it IS a darn impressive showing.

Real World Stutters

Over a three day period we used the SSD as our main OS drive. During this period we did everything in our power to make the drive stutter. This is what we found out.

As expected, this drive simply does not stutter. Modern SSDs usually don’t stutter as much as the last generation and the fact the P64 uses a massive amount of onboard cache, it is actually very, very hard to induce even the smallest of stutters. If you are into heavy multitasking like downloading files and watching a Youtube video while running a video encoding program, then this drive may actually be a better choice for you than any other SSD we have reviewed to date.