Testing The 240 GB HyperX Savage SSD
The Testbed
Processors |
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Motherboard |
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Memory |
Two Kingmax 2 GB DDR3-1333 modules |
Graphics Card |
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Drives |
4 TB Western Digital RE |
Operating System |
Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit |
Testing Methodology
We tested in both Windows 7 and Windows Vista, with the latest updates. We chose to use IO Meter 2008 as well as our "old faithful", WinBench 99 2.0, with the following tests :
- Platter Data Transfer Profile
- Business Disk WinMark 99
- High-End Disk WinMark 99
- Disk Transfer Rate (Beginning)
- Disk Transfer Rate (End)
Business Disk WinMark 99 is a real-world simulation based on three office application suites - Microsoft Office 97, Lotus SmartSuite and Corel WordPerfect Suite 8, as well as a web browser, Netscape Navigator. They are quite dated, but should still reflect the usage patterns of users in an office environment using such applications. The test runs through a script that keeps multiple applications open, while it performs tasks that switches between those applications and Netscape Navigator. The result is the average transfer rate during the script run.
High-End Disk WinMark 99 is a real-world simulation based on AVS/Express 3.4, FrontPage 98, MicroStation SE, Photoshop 4.0, Premiere 4.2, Sound Forge 4.0 and Visual C++ 5.0. However, it differs by running the applications serially, instead of simultaneously. There are individual results for each application but in this comparison, we will be looking only at the weighted average score, which is the average transfer rate during the tests.
Unfortunately, WinBench 99 is not fully compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, registering a SetFilePointer error in the Disk Access Time test. So, we were not able to obtain any Disk Access Time results.
Usable Capacity
The 240 GB HyperX Savage SSD has an official formatted capacity of 240 GB. We checked that out by formatting it in NTFS using Microsoft Windows 7.
The actual formatted capacity was 239,501,045,760 bytes, which is 499 MB lower than the official storage capacity. But on closer inspection, you can see that 300 MB was pre-allocated for use as a recovery partition, with another 100 MB reserved for use by the EFI. With about 101 MB allocated to the NTFS file system, the actual usable capacity remained slightly under 239,400 MB.
Maximum Surface Temperature
We monitored the surface temperature of eight hard disk drives and solid state drives during their benchmarks. The following chart shows their operating temperature range, from idle to maximum load. Please note that instead of giving you the absolute numbers, we are showing the temperature delta, which is the difference between the actual temperature and the ambient room temperature.
The higher surface temperature of the 240 GB HyperX Savage SSD is expected, because it is a slimmer 7 mm drive, instead of the other SSDs here which come with a roomier 9.5 mm chassis.
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