Testing methodology
Test Bench |
| CPU |
Intel Core i7-6700K (4.20GHz, 8MB cache, quad-core) |
| Motherboard |
Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI (0105 BIOS) |
| Memory |
16GB G.Skill Ripjaws V (2x8GB) DDR4 @ 2,666MHz |
| Storage Controllers |
Intel Z170 PCH (SATA 6Gbps, AHCI) |
| Graphics |
Integrated HD 530 Graphics |
| Power Supply |
Corsair AX760i |
| Operating System |
Windows 10 (64-bit) |
Comparison Drive Configurations |
| |
Total Capacity |
Controller |
Firmware |
Interface |
| SK hynix SC300 |
512GB |
LM878100AA |
2001P00 |
SATA 6Gbps |
| OCZ Trion 100 |
480GB |
Toshiba |
11.1 |
SATA 6Gbps |
| Crucial BX200 |
960GB |
SM2256EN |
MUO1.6 |
SATA 6Gbps |
Benchmarks |
| ATTO Disk Benchmark |
The freeware ATTO benchmark provides basic sequential speed results for both read and write operations. Using the default queue depth of four, we record read and write speeds during 1MB transfers. |
| CrystalDiskMark |
CrystalDiskMark provides various storage benchmarks, but we're interested in the returned 32-thread 4K performance numbers to see how well the drives fare when tasked with numerous small transfers. |
| Iometer |
Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement tool originally developed by Intel. To measure a drive's I/O performance, after preconditioning, we set the benchmark to run specific sequential and random read and write tests |
PCMark 8 |
PCMark 8's storage test is a collection of workloads that isolate the performance of the PC's storage system. |
