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 file patterns 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.


It's feeling a bit like deja-vu here, with the Falcon producing practically identical results to the Vertex when using the same Indilinx produced firmware. With a write time of 13.5 seconds the only faster drives we've yet to test are the Corsair P256 and the Intel X25-E, with the Falcon an impressive twenty five percent faster than the fastest mechanical hard disk drive.


Copy speeds when dealing with our ISO file pattern are similarly nippy, and while the performance gap between SSD and HDD is less, the Falcon is still a good eight percent faster than the Westen Digital Raptor. However, the Corsair P256 is the current master of large file copying, and is four seconds faster again! Nevertheless, the Indilinx based Falcon still shows that's no slouch and importantly beats out all the HDD competition, something some previous SSD haven't been able to do.


Reading large files is the Indilinx drive controller's strong point and that's no different with the Falcon. The drive is able to read our ISO file pattern in a awesomly quick 7.3 seconds, just as fast as the Vertex and almost twice as fast as any HDD.