OCZ Trion 150 480GB SSD Review

By Nathan Kirsch

PCMark 8 Storage Test

PCMark 8 is the latest version in Futuremark’s series of industry standard PC benchmarking tools. With PCMark 8 you can test the performance of all types of PC, from tablets to desktops. With five separate benchmark tests plus battery life testing, PCMark 8 helps you find the devices that offer the perfect combination of efficiency and performance. PCMark 8 is the complete PC benchmark for home and business. We ran the storage benchmark test suite on the OCZ Trion 100 480GB SATA III SSD.

OCZ Trion 150 480B:

PCMark 8 Storage Benchmark

OCZ Trion 100 480B:

PCMark 8 OCZ Trio 100 SSD

Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB:

evo500gb-pcmark8

Benchmark Results: When it comes to PCMark 8 performance you are looking at an overall score of 4,912 on the OCZ Trion 150 480GB SSD, 4,882 on the OCZ Trion 100 480GB and 5,000 on the 850 EVO 500GB, which is a pretty big difference on the this storage test as double digit differences is a big deal. The storage bandwidth on the Samsung 850 EVO 500GB drive was 302.74 MB/s versus 178.71 MB/s on the OCZ Trion 100 480 GB SSD and 195.26 MB/s on the OCZ Trion 150 480 GB SSD. The OCZ Trion 150 480GB SSD is indeed it tied or was faster in each of the test scenarios versus the original OCZ Trion 100.