SSD (solid state disk) on the rise. More and more vendors offer it, not only to the OEM (original equipment manufacturer), but also to consumers. SSD capacity even higher, even reaching 1TB. Unfortunately - perhaps because the players still lack a lot - the price was still less friendly to consumers.One player SSD is the Silicon Power with E10 products. SSD comes in a form factor 2.5 "or equal to the size of notebook hard disks. He weighs 70 grams - light enough to be planted in a notebook, netbook, or desktop PC. Our test unit capacity of 64GB - the largest capacity offered by Silicon Power for the internal type.
Sturdy, Beautiful
Silicon Power SSD his pack in the chassis that looks sturdy, made of polymers. The top of the casing decorated with plaid pattern that when the hologram is tilted and exposed to light would change color patterns.
View E10 is quite beautiful, so you may be tempted to make it as an external SSD. This can be done by using the eSATA cable that must be purchased alone. Just info, Silicon Power SSD is also external, the M10 series.
This self drive E10 SATA II interface showing 3Gb / s. Once the SATA cable and power and power embedded computer is turned on, the computer immediately detects the presence of E10. Two LEDs on the front of the SSD will light. Blue indicates power, while the red blinking indicates drive activity.
MLC NAND Flash
Silicon Power uses MLC NAND flash to his E10. Just a reminder, NAND flash is divided into two camps technologies: MLC (multi-level cell) and SLC (single-level cell). The former is cheaper, but slower performance and shorter age.
The use of flash memory drives to make age a bit limited if the data was written over and over again to certain parts of NAND flash. But Silicon Power tried to overcome this weakness with wear-leveling feature. This feature will spread to the entire drive data so that data is not concentrated in certain parts. This can prolong life mentioned drives.
Performance
Then how performance? We use several benchmarks: HD Tach, HD Tune and PCMark 05 Professional Edition.
HD Tach RW 3.0.1.0 is a utility disk testing low-level does not require the drive to have the file system, the alias is already formatted. As can be seen in the table, E10 test results typically show the performance of SSD. In the short test test, read speed drive provides an average of 176.4 MB / s, write speed of 138.5 MB / s, and the speed Burst 239.4 MB / s 0-good enough for the class SSD.
Meanwhile, HD Tune 2:53 - too hard disk benchmarking utility capable of benchmarking the lower-level and file system - led to an average speed of 133.2 MB / s, and Burst 165.4 MB / s with 0.2 ms access time. Meanwhile, in the PCMark05 HDD scores showed a total of 14,112.33 at the speed of writing files 113.288 MB / s and General Usage 21.96 MB / s.
In addition to benchmarks, we also perform manual tests read and write by using JPG files and 485 video files in 19 folders with total size of 5.55 GB. To copy these files, E10 takes about 3 minutes 28.32 seconds, or a write speed of 30.26 GB / s. The 485 files are completely read within 2 minutes 26.97 seconds, or a read speed of 38.98 GB / s. kompas
