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Mimicking real-world SSD workloads in benchmarks is tricky. Certainly, performance metrics such as sequential read and write tests only tell part of the story. Arguably, the most interesting synthetic test is the 4k random write part of the AS SSD benchmark.
While you wouldn't expect day-to-day performance to precisely mirror the 4k random write results shown here, they do provide an insight into how an SSD stands up to the sort of choppy data traffic that makes up the bulk of disk activity.
Size
Formatted capacity: Bytes, bigger is better
Corsair Force F40 40GB: 37.1GB
Intel X25-V 40GB: 37.1GB
Corsair Force F100 100GB: 93GB
Synthetic drive performance
ATTO Sequential read: MBps, bigger is better
Corsair Force F40 40GB: 285MBps
Intel X25-V 40GB: 196MBps
Corsair Force F100 100GB: 281MBps
Synthetic drive performance
ATTO Sequential write: MBps, bigger is better
Corsair Force F40 40GB: 265MBps
Intel X25-V 40GB: 46MBps
Corsair Force F100 100GB: 250MBps
Synthetic drive performance
HDTach Burst rate: MBps, bigger is better
Corsair Force F40 40GB: 261MBps
Intel X25-V 40GB: 246MBps
Corsair Force F100 100GB: 220MBps
Synthetic drive performance
AS SSD 4K random writes: MBps, bigger is better
Corsair Force F40 40GB: 45MBps
Intel X25-V 40GB: 28MBps
Corsair Force F100 100GB: 42MBps
Application performance
File decompression: Time taken, lower is better
Corsair Force F40: 38s
Intel X25-V 40GB: 50s
Corsair Force F100 100GB: 37s
