My Asus Raidr

I bought an Asus ROG Raidr today, you read more about it at Asus website: http://www.asus.com/ROG_ROG/RAIDR_Express_PCIe_SSD/

Here’s how it compares to my previous SSD drive, an old OCZ SSD. I’ll be installing Debian on the “Raidr” later today 

[divider]OCZ SSD[/divider]

My trusty old OCZ SSD:

[divider]Asus Raidr[/divider]

Now for the ASUS RAIDR Express PX2-240GB:

…see the difference?

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[divider]Update[/divider]

I bought my ASUS ROG RAIDR in August 2014, alas it has been running for almost four months so far. Nothing much has changed:

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 653.318 MB/s
Sequential Write : 384.610 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 574.778 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 362.720 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 26.550 MB/s [ 6481.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 79.871 MB/s [ 19499.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 193.040 MB/s [ 47128.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 297.664 MB/s [ 72671.8 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 39.3% (87.7/223.1 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2014/11/28 14:41:33
OS : Windows 8 [6.2 Build 9200] (x64)
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