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so today I actually have something pretty interesting to show you guys I recently did my unboxing of the intel SSD 510 series a codename Elmcrest SSD and I've actually got some results for you guys so this video is gonna focus on crystal disk mark which is a pretty well-established disk benchmarking tool these days and I've been marked a variety of different configurations for the purpose of finding out a couple of things this is a synthetic benchmark okay so bear in mind that the results are not necessarily always comparable from one drive to another and it's not always necessarily an indication of real-world performance but I wanted to find out in a synthetic benchmark how a single 5-10 series SSD compares to two five ten series SSDs as well as how using the onboard SATA 3 six gigabit per second port versus using the onboard SATA 2 3 gigabit per second ports affect the performance of this drive so I'm gonna walk you guys through this one by one here we have a single drive with its SATA 3 6 gigabit per second you can see here that the right speeds are largely unaffected by the the wider data bus however the read speeds especially these sequential results aren't well mostly the sequential results are significantly higher if you give it a pipe that's twice as wide to move the data through so that's that's how the performance compared as far as single Drive goes okay so then we've got our dual drive configuration so here I've configured it in raid zero running off the integrated SATA 3 6 gigabit per second controller on my p67 motherboard you can see right here that the sequential reads scale incredibly well this is the best results I've seen out of a to drive configuration for straight reads ever we're up near a 1 gigabyte per second read speed sequential and we're over 400 megabytes per second right speed so it's phenomenal however you can see here that once again write speeds are largely unaffected by the larger data bus and is mostly the read speeds especially once again sequential 's that are going to benefit from that larger data bus the reason for that is that when you're writing reading and writing more complicated data it becomes more controller bound and less bound by the actual by the actual interface itself so just as points of comparison I have included results with these dual 510 series SSDs running off an LSI 9268 i raid controller card these are the best results that I was able to obtain with the raid card over here so you can see that there are slight differences actually here I'm going to move this window over so you can compare them a little bit more easily between the onboard raid and the raid cards particularly in the 512 k sequential results right here everything else is pretty close although we did manage to get better 4k reads but actually slower 4k writes now that was with a fair amount of tinkering around with the settings but I'm sure as the firmware gets updated on these on the high end raid controller cards and as the community tinker's around with them and finds out how to get the most performance out of a 5-10 series SSD we're probably going to see better results I've also included the results from a Revo drive x2 240 gig so that's what I've actually got on the test bench down here right now and you can see that sequentially bearing in mind we're using random data with crystal mark this time around so SandForce is on a bit of a disadvantage here but you can see that sequentially it is not as strong of a performer as to 120 gig SSD 510 series drives however when you look at the high load random reads and writes it absolutely destroys the dual 510 series SSD setup so it's all about what kind of workloads you're going to be using and thank you for checking out my video on the crystal mark performance of the intel SSD 510 series don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other videos