Contrary to what the marketing seems to have stated, this BIOSTAR G330 SSD is not quite the premium SSD it is stated to be. It is not “Ultra-fast,” if it was, then it wouldn’t have fallen on its face during PCMark 8’s extended testing and it wouldn’t have taken almost 6 minutes to transfer 30GB of movies to it. It would be fast during write transfers, just as well as during read transfers. This also proves that it does not “offer 2 times faster data transfer rate than that of traditional SSD,” in contrast to their website’s claims. I remember back when I had a 128GB Plextor M5 Pro and it was able to sustain over 400MB/s writes till full, nearly 5-years ago… In spite of this, however, the G330 is still much better than an HDD and a fairly good performer for your grandparents or computer illiterate aunt.
The BIOSTAR G330 could be a decent OS drive or game drive, price permitting. Again, it did perform very well during PCMark 8’s normal run. For most people, a drive that performs well there should deliver perfectly acceptable performance that is similar to any other SSD. OS tasks aren’t that storage intensive once it is on flash, the same goes for gaming. Most hard drives will read at up to 200MB/s, but random and small file transfers slow HDDs down to a crawl. Luckily for an SSD such as this, although sequential write performance isn’t its strong suit, 90% of the time, it really doesn’t matter. What really matters is its small file transfer performance and fast sequential read performance. OS files and programs, game textures, and levels will all load faster and their appearance will be more fluid compared to hard drives. So, we will go ahead and say this is a fine choice for gaming. Most of the time we’re limited more by internet speed rather than HDD speed when it comes to downloading our massive game libraries nowadays anyways.
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