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To test SSDs in as close to a real life scenario as possible the drive is installed as a boot drive and a full operating system was installed and motherboard drivers loaded.
We tested in this state and then fill it up with data and then delete it, running through this cycle a few times before testing the drive again to see if there was much difference in the results after subjecting the drive to this usage cycle.
There wasn't a great deal of difference between the two sets of results although through longer term usage there might be.
Burst SpeedHD Tach Megabytes per second - Bigger is better
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB - 462
OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB - 494
Intel Series 510 250GB - 405
Sequential read/write performance
ATTO Megabytes per second - Bigger is better
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB Read - 543
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB Write - 512
OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB Read - 730
OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB Write - 727
Intel Series 510 250GB Read - 484
Intel Series 510 250GB Write - 332
4K random read/write performance
AS SSD Megabytes per second - Bigger is better
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB Read - 13.35
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB Write - 53.95
OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB Read - 27.68
OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB Write - 73.48
Intel Series 510 250GB Read - 10.70
Intel Series 510 250GB Write - 34.95
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