Malwarebytes as an SSD benchmark

[VirtualLarry]

Trying to gather empirical evidence in support of moving to an SSD.
One scenario that may be impacted is malware scanning.

Try downloading Malwarebytes (from http://www.malwarebytes.org/ ) click "Free Download", and download and install it.

From a fresh Windows reboot, open Malwarebytes and do a "full scan".

Paste the two lines from the log file, containing the object count, and the scan time.
From this, calculate the objects/sec rate of scanning. Also post your CPU/RAM.


Objects scanned: 435633
Time elapsed: 21 minute(s), 59 second(s)
1319 seconds total
330.2752084912813 objects per second, with a WD6400AAKS

Hmm, after rebooting, this is how long it took:

Objects scanned: 436030
Time elapsed: 36 minute(s), 59 second(s)
2219 seconds total
196.4984227129338 objects per second, with a WD6400AAKS

 

[Tsavo]

Not exactly a valid bench but anyway:

Objects scanned: 307926
Time elapsed: 7 minute(s), 33 second(s)
679 objects/s

Core i5 750, 4GB ram. Intel G2 120 GB.

 

[groberts101]

OK,.. I'll bite since I'm bored and my array is dirty so I'll be doing an SE/reimage shortly, anyways.

Objects scanned: 298865
Time elapsed: 3 minute(s), 26 second(s)
206 seconds total
1,450.8009 objects per second, with 6 x 50GB Vertex 2 in R0

Gigabyte X58-UD5
I7-920 @ 3.6ghz
12 gigs @1800mhz

If I had to guess based on experience with similar program scans on single SSD?.. the time would be closer to about 5 minutes.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Objects scanned: 192813
Time elapsed: 27 minute(s), 15 second(s)
1635 seconds
117.9284403669725 objects per second

WD400BB 40GB IDE drive (unsure what RPM)
P4 2.4GHz, no HT, 2GB DDR, Win7 32-bit SP1

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Objects scanned: 101988
Time elapsed: 42 second(s)
2428,28571428572 objects per second<----- ?????????????
Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 0
Registry Values Infected: 0
Registry Data Items Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 0
Files Infected: 0

Memory Processes Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Memory Modules Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Keys Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Values Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Data Items Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Folders Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Files Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

P4 3.2GHZ HT 4GB ddr2 Windows XP Lite Ram Disk

 

[jlazzaro]

Objects scanned: 316944
Time elapsed: 4 minute(s), 1 second(s)
241 seconds total

1,315 objects/second, single X25-M SSD

 

[eelw]

Objects scanned: 260684
Time elapsed: 3 minute(s), 6 second(s)

1939 objects/second
i7 970 @ 4.5GHz, 12GB DDR3, Corsair Extreme 32GB SSD

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hmm, in this, it does seem that SSDs are much faster than HDs. Thank you for your participation. I guess SSDs are worth it, for some things. Now I guess I just have to save up some money.

I have to buy some HD cages and disk controller cards for my WHS, and then some Antec 100 cases for my desktop rigs, and some 120mm fans first. So it might be a while still before I'm rocking an SSD. I hope prices go down, once they stockpile enough 25nm NAND.

 

[Tsavo]

Give you an idea of lots of small file impact on scan performance, I just cleared out my FF cache (764MB) and went from 679 objects/s to 940.