Cavalry Pelican 2.5 in 32GB Solid State Drive Review

Testing:

To test the capabilities of the Cavalry Pelican 32GB SSD I will use several benchmarks to test the performance of the drive. I will use SiSoft Sandra 2009 using the file system and physical disk benchmarks. I will use HDTune 2.55 to gauge performance and compare the results of the comparison drives. Since the Cavalry solid state drive has both a USB 2.0 and SATA II connectivity I will test with both connections.

• Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q9450
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6
• Memory: Mushkin XP2 Redline 8000 2 x 2GB 5-5-5-12
• Video Card: XFX GTX260 Black Edition 666/1150/1404 MHz
• Power Supply: Mushkin 800w Modular Power Supply
• Hard Drive: Cavalry Pelican 32GB SSD
• Optical Drive: Lite-on DVD-RW
• OS: Windows Vista Ultimate

Comparison Hard Drives:

• Seagate 1TB 7200.11
• Seagate 1.5 Terabyte 7200.11
• Western Digital 74GB Raptor 8MB
• Western Digital 250GB Caviar 16MB
• Intel 80GB SSD
• Seagate 320GB 7200.10

Benchmarks:

• Drive Tests:

1. HDTune 2.55
2. SISoft Sandra 2009