Final Thoughts

If yous were disappointed past the first batch of benchmarks and quickly jumped to this determination, get back and cheque the balance of the tests as we somewhen found where One thousand.Skill Falcon II'due south strengths resided. While at first things looked quite dour performance-wise, with the drive showing poor write speeds, as nosotros ran more and more tests it became articulate that the Falcon II delivered its all-time results when working with smaller files.

Both Atto Disk Benchmark and Hd Tune Pro showed strong write operation with 64KB or lesser files, and in nearly tests read speeds were amid the best we've seen. And then while our 6GB file copy examination results were far from impressive, it'd seem similar the Falcon II will really make for an excellent operating organisation drive as it is extremely snappy when working with tiny files.

As far as the new firmware goes, we no longer believe it is responsible for whatever performance losses. We tested another bulldoze, the Crucial M225, with and without TRIM support and more often than not information technology turned out faster with the latest firmware. Since we tried to simulate used SSD performance past commencement filling each drive with a single contiguous file before benchmarking, the TRIM characteristic came in handy and helped deliver ameliorate results.

The Falcon 2 was not designed to set any new speed records only rather approach the market equally a more affordable solution without sacrificing too much functioning. Although we couldn't detect any U.S. retailers offering the drive just yet, it is listed at Commonwealth of australia and Canadian online retailers and already appears to be around 15% - twenty% cheaper than the original. How much this will alter as availability picks up is anyone's guess.

The 1000.Skill Falcon II 128GB is about 15% cheaper than the Crucial M225 at the same capacity level, and 10% cheaper than the OCZ Agility 120GB. Information technology is also 42% cheaper than the Intel X25-M G2 160GB and 22% more expensive than the 80GB version, though on a per-gigabyte basis the G.Skill Falcon 2 comes out every bit the more affordable option. In fact, as it stands now the Falcon Ii seems to be the cheapest manner to go your hands on an Indilinx-based SSD.

Although you'd be making some compromises hither and there, this seems like the perfect production for those looking to get on the SSD bandwagon at an affordable price point. Too getting a huge functioning boost compared to a traditional spinning hd bulldoze, the 128GB version of the Falcon Two offers enough storage infinite for users to run their operating system without having to worry about the programs they can or cannot install.