G.Skill 64GB SATA II SSD Review

Performance Results

Read Bandwidth

For this benchmark, HDTach was used. It shows the potential read speed which you are likely to experience with these hard drives.


As expected, the RAID 0 drives walked away from this test with first place with only the Velociraptor giving it any serious competition. However, the G.Skill’s 94MB/s average is very impressive in its own right. What was interesting is unlike the another spindle based drives the HDTach graph of the SSD was for all intents and purposes a straight line. So while you may “only” get 94MB/s you will get it for the entire size of the drive. This is impressive as there is no need to move files around to get the best performance from the drive and while yes defragging your hard drive is still a good idea it is not as vitally important when every bit of the drive provides killer performance.


Random Access Time

Once again, HDTach 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.


OK, we intellectually knew this drive was going to excel at random access, but knowing it and actually witnessing it is different. In fact a “Uh rah!” escaped me when I saw it smoke my brand new (and still shiny) Velociraptor!


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.


For some strange reason Sandra did not like this SSD as much as we though it would. The numbers Sandra spit out are OK but they are not anywhere near what we were expecting.