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today I've got a pretty interesting video for you guys this is featuring the intel SSD 510 series SSD anyway I ran some pcmark vantage benchmarks on these particular SSDs I actually ran them with an intel p67 motherboard so I've got a few different configurations to show you first of all I ran single Drive on the SE 236 gigabit per second controller as well as on the say two to three gigabit per second controller and the objective of that was to demonstrate how much of a performance advantage you get by pairing this SSD up with a proper state of 36 gigabit per second controller versus running it on an older legacy Seita to controller I also ran the two drives together in raid 0 again in both configurations so on both different speed controllers to see what kind of a performance benefit we get from jumping from one SSD 22 SSDs add just as a point of comparison I compared the onboard raid against an lsi 9268 I raid card which i believe is configured optimally but I'm not actually an expert at configuring the raid bios oh I'm sure as the community plays around with these more they will find ways to eat more performance out of it and also for context I've compared these two SSDs against an ocz revodrive x2 240 gig so that's going to show us what force and force drive so that is for 60 gigs and force drives essentially in raid 0 will be able to do against these all right so you can come in close here and have a look but basically i'll its logo will go from by columns so the first column here is our single drive performance and you can see that we actually gained thirty percent performance going from a SATA 2 3 gigabit per second connection to a say 236 gigabit per second connection now when we actually go down to the hard drive suite results we can see which applications are really making use of this extra bandwidth so there's certain things that actually don't get nearly as much benefit as others so when you're talking small files okay so such as adding music to windows media player you're not going to see as huge a performance benefit as when you look at much bigger files like say for example video editing using Windows Movie Maker so basically the larger the files are and the more sequentially we're reading from them or writing to them but more benefit we're going to get from that wider interface so as we move over here I'm just going to bring these back up to show you guys the total scores as we move over we find our raid 0 results so you can see that on the SATA 2 connection we actually get more benefit from raid 0 vs on the sata 3 connection and I guess the reason for that would be that what we're doing when we add raid 0 is we are doubling the amount of bandwidth available though we're doubling the number of drives so certain things are going to be less bottlenecked and certain things are going to be equally bottlenecked so let's have a look at where the say 236 gigabit per second interface is really able to pull away from the slower interface and there aren't as many huge examples of that but you look at video editing again so that's where you're looking at a huge performance benefit from the wider interface ok this to start up once again gets a lot of benefit actually I'm going to scroll down over here and let's see how much vista start up yeah so that one actually didn't improve much from the single drive configuration mmm interesting ok so let's move over let's have a look at our raid card results so here we can see that it actually doesn't score as high as the onboard rate ok but some of the results here are actually better so you can see here Windows Defender actually performed significantly better than the onboard raid we're talking on the order of about fifteen percent better so the reason for that I would speculate based on the crystal disk mark results that we saw before is that the onboard the onboard raid controller doesn't perform as well as the dedicated raid controller in random reads and writes gaming once again the dedicated raid controller absolutely blows away the onboard in fact many of these results are significantly better than the onboard raid the only reason that we're seeing this low overall score seems to be that windows media center doesn't perform nearly as well on the dedicated raid card so that's something to bear in mind when you're looking at the overall results where you see the onboard raid just destroying allow you know a hundreds of dollars dedicated raid controller so let's move on down here to the revo drive x2 once again we see a very low overall score but as we move down and try to hear you know I'm going to move this one next to it or above it so that we can have an easier point of comparison so this is the revo drive x 2 this is 2 5 tens on the onboard raid controller because that's sort of the configuration i'd consider most likely we see that don't mount okay that won't fly okay we see that the revo drive x2 actually does outperform the duel 5 tens in some applications but there are others where it just gets demolished such as the video editing benchmark where yeah there's absolutely no comparison but you look at some things like application loading as well as the antivirus test and it actually outperforms it so that probably again also reflects the better performance that the revo drive x2 has in random ah highly usage scenarios versus the dual drive config so thank you for checking out my pc mark comparison of the intel SSD 510 against itself on a say 22 versus a SATA 3 interface as well as a couple other points of reference for us don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos