Micron vs. Intel: Your Interpretation of the Data?

AnalyticalGuy

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http://www.anandtech.com/bench/defa...=65.66.67.68.69.70.71.72.73.74.75.78.79.80.81

Please correct me if I'm wrong!

1. Intel crushes Micron in random writes!!
2. Micron crushes Intel in sequential writes!!
3. Micron has a slight advantage in both random reads and sequential reads.
(Please see the last four benchmarks.)

I would assume that the remaining benchmarks can largely be understood in terms of the above results. For example, the "AnandTech Storage Bench -- Heavy Workload" has been described as follows:
"The benchmark is 22 minutes long and it consists of 128,895 read operations and 72,411 write operations. Roughly 44% of all IOs were sequential." http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3702&p=12
Thus, this benchmark would play to Micron's strengths because it has a lot of sequential IOs and a lot of read operations.

Presumably random writes are more important for say, the "PCMark Vantage - Gaming Suite" which thus favors Intel?
 

EarthwormJim

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Not much to interpret, Intel does have higher random writes, Micron is faster in all other areas.

Random writes do seem to be the biggest determiner of all around performance, so despite the nearly double sequential write advantage Micron has; the Intel drive is as fast or faster in semi-real world benchmarks.

At this point it seems for all around desktop use, most of the newer generation SSDs are about as fast as each other (Indilinx, new Micron, Sandforce, Intel). I think what's really going to separate them (since they're all super fast) is write amplification and how well they perform when full.
 

Engineer

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It's a Marvell controller, not a Micron (just in case that's not clear)! ;)

(assuming that Marvell isn't owned by Micron, lol)

Can't wait until these hit the market along with some of the others (SandForce, Indilinx JetStream, new Intel)....