Transcend SSD370 128GB SATA 6Gb/s SSD Review

ATTO & CrystalDiskMark

ATTO v2.47

ATTO is one of the oldest drive benchmarks still being used today and is still very relevant in the SSD world. ATTO measures transfers across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and places the data into graphs that can be very easily interpreted. The test was run with the default runs of 0.5KB through 8192KB transfer sizes with the total length being 256MB.

ATTO – Overlapped I/0:

Benchmark Results: ATTO showed Transcend SSD370 128GB drive maxing out at 561 MB/s read and 165MB/s write in the standard overlapped I/O benchmark. This drive is rated at having up to 570MB/s read and 170MB/s write, so it looks like Transcend was pretty aggressive with their performance specifications.

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64

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.

Benchmark Results: The Transcend SSD370 128GB drive topped out at 546MB/s read and 164MB/s write on the sequential test when we ran the drive on the CrystalDiskMark storage test with the default settings. The 4K scores were just shy of 33MB/s read and were right around 130MB/s for the write speed. The incompressible data test is representative for the performance you’ll see when moving around movies, music and photographs. We also ran the 0Fill test and found that the sequential and random read/write performance of the drive essentially remained the same.