Corsair Force GT SATA III 120GB SSD Review

CrystalDiskMark and PCMark Vantage

CrystalDiskMark is a small benchmark utility for drives and enables rapid measurement of sequential and random read/write speeds. Note that CDM only supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with a queue depth of 32 (as noted) for the last listed benchmark score. This can skew some results in favor of controllers that also do not support NCQ.

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 – Intel P67 Platform

Benchmark Results: While the read scores were very good for the Force 3 GT, the sequential write scores were lower than some of the faster drives. The 4K random read and writes are much better and this is where most of the drive workload falls anyway.

PCMark Vantage 7 Professional – Intel P67 Platform

This is our first use of the new PCMark software since they have updated it to version 7 which is specifcially designed for Windows 7. It measures the performance of the latest PC hardware across a variety of common scenarios. PCMark Vantage 7 supports both system level and component level benchmarking and comprises several different test suites but for the purposes of this review, we employed the secondary storage suite. The nice thing about it is that you can submit your scores online and compare against others.

Benchmark Results: The scores fell right in line with the top drives in the comparison with an overall score that is right near the top.