AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - SanDisk X300s (512GB) Review
AnandTech Storage Bench 2011
Back in 2011 (which seems like so long ago now!), we introduced our AnandTech Storage Bench, a suite of benchmarks that took traces of real OS/application usage and played them back in a repeatable manner. The MOASB, officially called AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 – Heavy Workload, mainly focuses on peak IO performance and basic garbage collection routines. There is a lot of downloading and application installing that happens during the course of this test. Our thinking was that it's during application installs, file copies, downloading and multitasking with all of this that you can really notice performance differences between drives. The full description of the Heavy test can be found here, while the Light workload details are here.
The X300s does not perform that well in our 2011 Storage Benches. I would say that the 2011 Benches, especially the Light suite, are closer to a typical corporate workload with lots of email and office use, so I would give more value to that instead of the 2013 Bench. The X300s is still okay in both 2011 Benches and better than the Intel SSD Pro 2500, but I was expecting a bit more given the performance of the Extreme Pro and Extreme II.
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