UserBenchmark: Intel 330 Series vs SanDisk Ultra Plus

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Best Bench: 99% 168GB free
Worst Bench: 58% 238GB free

Poor: 58% Great: 99%

SPEED RANK: 469^th / 1072

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Best Bench: 80% 27GB free
Worst Bench: 53% 29GB free (System drive)

Poor: 53% Great: 80%

SPEED RANK: 701^st / 1072


Effective Speed Effective SSD Speed		81.4 %	Faster effective speed. +20%		67.8 %


Read Avg. Sequential Read Speed	438 MB/s	Faster read speed. +14%	383 MB/s
Write Avg. Sequential Write Speed	347 MB/s	Hugely faster write speed. +165%	131 MB/s
4K Read Avg. 4K Random Read Speed	26.5 MB/s		28.9 MB/s	Slightly faster random read. +9%
4K Write Avg. 4K Random Write Speed	71.2 MB/s		77.2 MB/s	Slightly faster random write. +8%
Mixed Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed	194 MB/s	Slightly faster mixed IO speed. +7%	182 MB/s
4K Mixed Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	29.3 MB/s		32.6 MB/s	Faster random mixed IO. +11%
SusWrite Avg. Sustained Write Speed	297 MB/s	Hugely faster sustained write speed. +165%	112 MB/s


Read Peak Sequential Read Speed	484 MB/s	Slightly faster peak read speed. +9%	445 MB/s
Write Peak Sequential Write Speed	437 MB/s	Hugely faster peak write speed. +195%	148 MB/s
4K Read Peak 4K Random Read Speed	32.2 MB/s		35.2 MB/s	Slightly faster peak random read. +9%
4K Write Peak 4K Random Write Speed	104 MB/s		109 MB/s	+5%
Mixed Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed	242 MB/s	Faster peak mixed IO speed. +22%	198 MB/s
4K Mixed Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	36 MB/s		40.2 MB/s	Faster peak random mixed IO. +12%
SusWrite Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average	440 MB/s	Hugely faster peak sustained write speed. +210%	142 MB/s

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.01 %		0.01 %
Value Value For Money	8.37 %	Hugely better value. +167%	3.14 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	53 %	+2%	52 %
Price Price (score)	$139	Cheaper. +26%	$188


Age Newest	135 Months	Slightly more recent. +7%	145 Months
DQ Read Peak 4K-64Thread Read Speed	326 MB/s	Much faster peak deep queue read. +63%	200 MB/s
DQ Write Peak 4K-64Thread Write Speed	216 MB/s	Much faster peak deep queue write. +49%	145 MB/s
AS-SSD Total AS-SSD Total Score	987 Pts	Much stronger server IO. +43%	691 Pts
DQ Mixed Peak 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed	128 MB/s		164 MB/s	Faster peak deep queue mixed IO. +28%
ADQ Read Avg. 4K-64Thread Read Speed	287 MB/s	Much faster deep queue read. +56%	184 MB/s
ADQ Write Avg. 4K-64Thread Write Speed	189 MB/s	Much faster deep queue write. +45%	130 MB/s
ADQ Mixed Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed	116 MB/s		143 MB/s	Faster deep queue mixed IO. +23%


Capacity Capacity			256GB			120GB

The Sandisk Ultra Plus has an above average consumer performance profile and is available at a fantastic price. It's one of the cheapest SSD's we have reviewed and we like it a lot. With a real world speed of 488.1 MB/s and an AS-SSD Total score of 910 points, the Ultra Plus is able to handle consumer workloads reasonably well and enterprise workloads just below average. The slightly below average server performance is primarily due to the Ultra's deep queue 4k write speed which clocked in at just 165 MB/s, considerably below the group average of 241 MB/s. Given that this drive is only a few months old, there is a good chance that its prices will drop even further which would make it an even better value consumer proposition than it already is. ^{[Apr '13 SSDrivePro]}

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The Intel 330 is just under two years old and sports a Sandforce 2281 controller coupled with Intel's own 25nm MLC NAND. This combination typically produces a performance profile that struggles with incompressible data and favours reading over writing. With peak and average sequential read/write speeds of 514/138 and 414/122 the Intel 330 is unable to compete in today's market and falls over 50% short of the group leaders which manage peak sequential read/write speeds in the 500/300 MB/s region. Small file 4K peak and average speeds are better and clocked in at 32/89 and 24/63 MB/s which is 10% below the group leaders. Overall the 330 has an effective speed of 370 MB/s which makes it one of the slowest 128GB SSDs I have seen to date. ^{[Feb '14 SSDrivePro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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