Once filled with data, the Vector 150 became around 10% slower in our large file copy test and we couldn’t restore that performance by optimizing the drive.
This time we see a 16% drop in performance with the Vector 150 full, as its throughput went from 187.8MB/s to 161.7MB/s.
The last copy test uses our game data and here we see a 22% reduction in performance with the drive full.
Sequential read performance wasn’t affected much by filling drive, which isn’t surprising as the effects of a full drive mainly appear in write performance.
Speaking of which, sequential write performance fell by 30% after we filled the Vector 150.
When running the random 512K read test, the Vector 150’s performance did fall, but only by 8%.
When measuring the performance loss using the random 512K write test, the Vector 150 was 16% slower when full.
