FC-Test Results

Website: FC-Test

Our FC-Test benchmark is split into three parts. First is a write test involving the creation of a file pattern similar to common files such as MP3s or large video files. Once created on the drive, we then copy the file pattern from the drive back to a different folder on the same drive producing a combined read/write test. Finally we test the read speed of the drive by performing FC-Test's read test on the files copied.

For our benchmarks, we're using both the MP3 pattern, consisting of two hundred and seventy small files totalling 0.99GB, and the the ISO pattern, consisting of three large files totalling 1.6GB in size. We feel these represent the most common files people will be frequently copying to and from an drive, and can be interpreted as as close to a real world file transfer test as possible.


As the drives are practically identical it's no surprise to find the Vertex and Falcon posting practically identical results here, with both taking 7 seconds to write a 0.99GB MP3 file pattern (representative of a collection of MP3s). That's a good forty percent faster than the fastest mechanical drive, the Western Digital VelociRaptor! However, the Samsung drive controlled Corsair is now also on the scene, and it's superior write speeds allow it to pip the Indilinx based drives by a half second (eight percent).


Copy speeds are similarly excellent, although the speed advantage over a nippy hard disk drive is lessened somewhat. Despite the Falcon's great copy time of 6.4 seconds a Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB is only fifteen percent slower, at 7.61 seconds, with the Corsair P256 turning in a notably faster of 5.31 seconds, a good fifteen percent faster than the Falcon. Nevertheless, Performance is still excellent and importantly out paces conventional hard disks, something MLC SSDs weren't capable of before the use of ARM processor based drive controllers.


Read speeds are predictably excellent though, with the Falcon joining the rest of the crowd of SSDs at the top of our performance charts.