FutureMark PCMark Vantage - HDD Suite	Source: FutureMark

PCMark Vantage is the first objective hardware performance benchmark for PCs running 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Vista. PCMark Vantage is perfectly suited for benchmarking any type of Windows Vista PC from multi media home entertainment systems and laptops to dedicated workstations and hi-end gaming rigs. Regardless of whether the benchmarker is an artist or an IT Professional, PCMark Vantage shows the user where their system soars or falls flat, and how to get the most performance possible out of their hardware. PCMark Vantage is easy enough for even the most casual enthusiast to use yet supports in-depth, professional industry grade testing. Higher points are better.

Futuremark PCMark Vantage - HDD Suite Windows Defender: (MB/s) (MB/s) Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 138.3 Gaming: (MB/s) (MB/s) Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 164.5 Importing to Photo Gallery: (MB/s) (MB/s) Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 193.5 Windows Vista Startup: (MB/s) (MB/s) Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 208.8 Editing w/h Movie Maker: (MB/s) (MB/s) Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 198.4 Media Center: (MB/s) (MB/s) Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 299.4 Adding Files to Media Player: (MB/s) (MB/s) Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 123.9 Application Loading: (MB/s) (MB/s) Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 184.7

On the whole, PCMark Vantage positions the 256GB Samsung SSD well. There is no sense in comparing these results to desktop SSDs... but we should mention that from power off to Windows 7 desktop takes about 9-10 seconds. Going into Hibernation mode is ~3 seconds, coming out of hibernation is less than 1 second.

Next up, AS SSD results...

AS SSD 1.6 Benchmark	Source:AS SSD

The AS SSD benchmark determines the performance of Solid State Drives (SSD). AS SSD benchmark is made specifically to test SSD performance. It is a synthetic benchmark that gauges bandwidth and latency speeds for solid state disks. Higher bandwidth (MB/s) is better, lower latencies (ms) are better.

AS SSD Benchmark 1.6.4013 - Read/Write Read Sequential (MB/s) MB/s Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 459.58 Write Sequential (MB/s) MB/s Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 253.42 Read 4K (MB/s) MB/s Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 18.29 Write 4K (MB/s) MB/s Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 41.67 Read 4k-64Thrd (MB/s) MB/s Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 284.47 Write 4k-64Thrd (MB/s) MB/s Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 91.6 Read Acc. Time (ms) ms Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 0.137 Write Acc. Time (ms) ms Ranking Samsung 900X4C-A02 0.087

Windows 7 x64 is installed to a 256GB Samsung MZMPC256HBGJ SSD in the Samsung NP900X4C-A02 ultrabook. AS SSD gives us a true measure of the SSDs performance, placing it very well with a Sequential Read result of 459MB/s, Sequential Write value of 253.79MB/s and slightly higher than expected Read 4k-64 Third result of 284.47MB/s

These results are competitive against SATAIII OCZ Verex 3 and SanDisk Extreme SSDs PCSTATS has recently reviewed.