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 of 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.


This is a test where the JMicron drive controller really hurt the G.Skill and Patriot SSDs in our first look at SSD performance last December. Both drives encountered a problem with micro-stuttering where the drive became flooded with I/O commands simply could not process all of them, resulting in pretty awful performance that was well off a mechanical hard disk.

Amazingly though the switch to a dual drive controller setup on the G.Skill Titan, with an on-board SATA splitter, seems to dramatically improve performance by almost 50 percent, clocking in with a write time that amazingly beats the Intel X25-M!


The copying and re-writing of a large number of small files created a real micro-stuttering problem for the single drive controller SSDs, but again the Titan 256GB is able to enormously improve on their performance in our combined read/write test, with a result that's once again able to significantly better the Intel X25-M and is on par with the fastest of mechanical drives!


Wow, now we are impressed. The G.Skill Titan is able to noticeably improve upon the performance of a single drive controller based drive, to the point that it's actually faster in this instance than a high end Intel X25-E, not bad considering the Titan is eight times the size!