G.Skill Falcon II 128GB 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 containing 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.


With the exception of the large transfer zinger these numbers are pretty much middle of the pack. Of course being in the middle of THIS pack is a very good accomplishment considering almost all the various drives here are or were high end models. With that being said the numbers are still a little bit on the low side and we were hoping to see numbers a bit better than this. About the only saving grace (when it comes to these tests) is these numbers are still for the most part better than most hard drives out there.