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.


We were amazed with the performance of the G.Skill Titan in this test considering the poor results from the previous generation of SSDs and the OCZ Apex 120GB is just as impressive. While still slower than the Samsung 1TB and Seagate 1.5TB mechanical drives and the ludicrously nippy SLC based Intel X25-E, it's still a solid result for an SSD, with none of the micro-stuttering problems that plagued the older Samsung based SSDs.


We've already said that the difference in drive firmware between the OCZ Apex and the G.Skill Titan would be the difference between the drives and in our MP3 file pattern test it certainly seems to be the case, with the OCZ taking three seconds on average longer to duplicate a file.


Read performance is still excellent though and is marginally faster than the G.Skill, reading 0.99GB of un-cached files in a blisteringly quick 3.4 seconds, almost half the time of Seagate's 1TB and 1.5TB mechanical hard drives!