SK Hynix Canvas SC300 Review (256GB)

Written by Matthew Lambert

August 14, 2015 | 11:01

Tags: #best-ssd #mlc-nand #ssd

Companies: #sk-hynix

Iometer (Sequential Performance)

Website: www.iometer.org

Our one hour consistency test acts as something of a preconditioning for the drives, although before doing any further testing we trigger the TRIM command by performing a quick format in Windows and leaving the system idle for five minutes. This gives the drive a fair chance to recover some performance. We then perform sequential read and write tests with Iometer using 128KB throughput. We test first at QD1 and then at QD4 to simulate light and heavy desktop workloads (even power users rarely exceed QD4 at home). Each test is run for a full minute to eliminate initial burst phases, and in each case it's the average speed we're reporting.

Iometer - 128KB Sequential Read QD1

Average of 1 minute run

  • SK Hynix Canvas SC300 256GB
  • OCZ Arc 100 240GB
    • 449.0
    • 330.8
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500
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Read Speed

Iometer - 128KB Sequential Read QD4

Average of 1 minute run

  • SK Hynix Canvas SC300 256GB
  • OCZ Arc 100 240GB
    • 533.6
    • 528.5
0
100
200
300
400
500
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Read Speed

Iometer - 128KB Sequential Write QD1

Average of 1 minute run

  • OCZ Arc 100 240GB
  • SK Hynix Canvas SC300 256GB
    • 405.2
    • 378.7
0
100
200
300
400
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Write Speed

Iometer - 128KB Sequential Write QD4

Average of 1 minute run

  • OCZ Arc 100 240GB
  • SK Hynix Canvas SC300 256GB
    • 390.9
    • 380.6
0
100
200
300
400
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Write Speed

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Posted by Hustler - Fri Aug 14 2015 11:50

Over the last few months, SSD prices have continued to fall steadily
I keep reading this but 12mths ago I only paid £70 for a 240GB Crucial SSD and 512GB drives are still in the £130-£150 price range, again roughly the same as last year.

From where I'm sitting, prices don't seem to have moved much at all.

Posted by rollo - Fri Aug 14 2015 13:35

Prices on SSDs and System memory have dropped in the last 12 months. Higher quality ssds are now alot cheaper. Samsungs range has dropped a good £100 in price in the last year.

250GB Samsung 850 evo was £120 on launch in the uk. ( In jan 2015) Its now £80 thats a decent reduction since Jan of this year.

The cruicial drive you mensioned was already dirt cheap to begin with around £73 on launch last year so has not really got alot of price leeway to go down.

Higher quality drives have got some decent reductions.
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