Corsair P64 64GB 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.


While an average speed of over 208MB/s is nothing to sneeze at, it still is lower than then its main rivals: the Intel X-25 FIRST generation SSD and all Indilinx SSDs we have looker at so far. This is not unexpected as Samsung does give up a little read potential for higher write potential (or at least that is what the specifications tell us) and in the grand scheme of things when you get into speeds this high you are just not going to notice a difference between 230MB/s or 210MB/s. One way or another, speed like this is going to knock your socks off if this is your first SSD.

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 utilities the HD Tune Pro writes across the full area of the drive, thus it easily shows any weakness a drive may have.


Now these numbers are indeed disappointing considering the numbers Corsair claims in write performance. The only reason we can think of for performance like this is that the P64 is a 64GB unit and the Indilinx SSDs we have looked at were 128GB. Sixteen 8GB chips seems to be the sweet spot for this generation of Indilinx SSDs and based on these lower than expected numbers we have a sneaking suspicion this is the case with the Samsung controller as well. Unfortunately, Corsair didn't send their P128GB model. It is a damn shame, but in the future maybe we will come back and review the P128 model to see if our hunch is correct.