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SSD (solid state disk) is booming. The more vendors offer, not only to the OEM (original equipment manufacturer), but also to consumers. SSD capacity is increasingly high, and even reach 1TB. Unfortunately – perhaps because PLAYERS still a lot less – it still costs less friendly for consumers.

One of the players is the Silicon Power SSD products with the E10. SSD comes in the form factor 2.5 “or with the same size hard disk notebook. Weight 70 grams – light enough to be planted in the notebook, netbook or desktop PC. That our test unit with a 64GB – the largest capacity offered by Silicon Power for internal type.

Solid, Beautiful
Silicon Power SSD packed in its casing that looks solid, made of polymer. The top of the casing pattern decorated diagonal boxes when the hologram is exposed to light and will change the color pattern.

Views E10 is simply beautiful, so you may be tempted to make it as an external SSD. This can be done using the eSATA cable that must be purchased alone. Just info, the Silicon Power SSD also external, that is, the M10 series.

Drive E10 itself expose interface SATA II 3Gb / s. Once the SATA cable and power plugged and computer power is turned on, the computer immediately detects the presence of E10. Two LED on the front of the SSD will be up. The blue indicates power, while the red akan blinking indicates drive activity.

MLC NAND Flash
Silicon Power uses MLC NAND flash for its E10. Just a reminder, NAND flash is divided in two citadel technology: MLC (multi-level cell) and SLC (single-level cell). Mentioned first is cheaper, but also to perform more slowly and more short-age.

Use flash memory drives to make age a bit limited if the data be written repeatedly to the particular NAND flash. However, Silicon Power seeks the weakness of this feature with the wear-leveling. This feature will spread to all the data drive so the data is not concentrated in certain parts. This can prolong the age of the drive.

Performance
What performance? We use several benchmark: HD Tach, HD Tune and PCMark 05 Professional Edition.

HD Tach RW 3.0.1.0 Utilities examiner is hard disk low-level that does not require that the drive to have the file system, alias is already formatted. As can be seen in the table, E10 test results typically show performance SSD. In the short test test, speed read drive provides an average of 176.4 MB / s, write speed of 138.5 MB / s, burst speed and 239.4 MB / s 0-good enough for the class SSD.

The HD Tune 2:53 – Utilities also benchmark your hard disk that is able to benchmark and lower-level file system – show the average speed of 133.2 MB / s, and burst 165.4 MB / s with 0.2 ms access time. Meanwhile, in the PCMark05 HDD score showing total 14,112.33 write files with the speed of 113.288 MB / s and General Usage 21.96 MB / s.

In addition to benchmark, we also perform the test manually read and write using the 485 JPG files and video files in 19 folders with the total size of 5.55 GB. To copy files, the E10 takes 3 minutes 28.32 seconds, the write speed or 30.26 GB / s. 485-to thoroughly read the file in the time of 26.97 seconds in 2 minutes, or speed read 38.98 GB / s.

***
Silicon Power E10 is not too much capacity, but the system is adequate for Windows XP and Vista. Physical beautiful internal SSD is also made to allow storage with additional external eSATA cable.

From the speed, E10 is quite good, and faster than hard disk that has a disc. Advantages come from is as SSD, ie low power consumption and resistant rock.

PLUS: Views beautiful; not noisy; saver.

Minus: Expensive; quite warm body.

Score test
(maximum 5)
Performance: 3.9
Facilities: 4.2
Usage: 4.5
Price: 2
TOTAL Score: 3.76

Silicon Power SPECIFICATION E10
Interface: SATA II
Capacity: 64GB
Buffer: –
Flash type: MLC NAND
Features: Built-in ECC, wear-leveling algorithm
Resilience: 10,000 inserts (at least)
Vibration: 15G peak-to-peak max.
Shock: 1500G max.
Completeness: 4 screw
Dimensions (Plt): 10×6, 985×0, 84 cm
Weight: 70 grams
Warranty: 2 years
Vendor site: www.silicon-power.com
Price range *: U.S. $ 76.7

RESULTS UJI
- HD Tach RW 3.0.1.0 (Short Test)

Random Access 0.2 ms
CPU Utilization 5% (± 2%)
176.5 Average Read MB / s
Average Write 138.5 MB / s
Speed burst 239.4 MB / s

- HD Tach RW 3.0.1.0 (Long Test)

Random Access 0.2 ms
CPU Utilization 3% (± 2%)
176.3 Average Read MB / s
Average Write 110.3 MB / s
Speed burst 239.9 MB / s

- HD Tune 2:53

Minimum Transfer Rate 114.5 MB / s
Maximum Transfer Rate 140.8 MB / s
Average Transfer Rate 133.2 MB / s
Access Time 0.2 ms
Burst Rate 165.4 MB / s
CPU Usage 6.9%

- PCMark2005 120 (NTFS)

HDD (Overall) 14,112.33

HDD – XP Startup 31.189 MB / s
HDD – Application Loading 27.618 MB / s
HDD – General Usage 21.95833 MB / s
HDD – Virus Scan 155.1637 MB / s
HDD – File Write 113.288 MB / s

Peranti test used

Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
Asus Maximum Formula
DDR2 800MHz 1GB x 2
nVidia GeForce 9500GT 512MB
Seagate 7200.7 80GB SATA
Samsung DVD 16x
Antec 430W
Samsung SyncMaster 591s
SATA 2
Windows XP SP2
DirectX 9.0c

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