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The toughest benchmark available for solid state drives is AS SSD as it relies solely on incompressible data samples when testing performance. For the most part, AS SSD tests can be considered the ‘worst case scenario’ in obtaining data transfer speeds and many enthusiasts like AS SSD for their needs. Transfer speeds are displayed on the left with IOPS results on the right.
Looking at the throughput result of AS SSD, we can see that the high sequential results are a bit lower, as they normally might be with this software, but it is surprising to see the low 4k random performance actually better than the previous Crystal DiskMark result. IOPS are also decent at 439K read and 593k write.
ANVIL STORAGE UTILITIES PROFESSIONAL
Anvil’s Storage Utilities (ASU) are the most complete test bed available for the solid state drive today. The benchmark displays test results for, not only throughput but also, IOPS and Disk Access Times. Not only does it have a preset SSD benchmark, but also, it has included such things as endurance testing and threaded I/O read, write and mixed tests, all of which are very simple to understand and use in our benchmark testing.
AJA VIDEO SYSTEM DISK TEST
The AJA Video Systems Disk Test is relatively new to our testing and tests the transfer speed of video files with different resolutions and Codec.
The SSD Review uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience. There are eight tests in all and the tests performed to record the speed of data movement in MB/s to which they are then given a numerical score after all of the tests are complete. The simulations are as follows:
- Windows Defender In Use
- Streaming Data from storage in games such as Alan Wake which allows for massive worlds and riveting non-stop action
- Importing digital photos into Windows Photo Gallery
- Starting the Vista Operating System
- Home Video editing with Movie Maker which can be very time consuming
- Media Center which can handle video recording, time shifting and streaming from Windows media center to an extender such as XBox
- Cataloging a music library
- Starting applications
MyDigitalSSD BPX Pro NVMe M.2 1TB SSD RESULTS
As outdated as it is, we like to throw in our PCMark Vantage results and here we can see that 5 of the 8 tests had transfer speed results over 1GB/s.
“This SSD is listed as a 1920GB SSD, vice what adds up to be 2048GB as might normally be calculated by RAW NAND flash memory; this accounts for over-provisioning. When we format the SSD, however, the total available storage space available to the user is only 1788GB. ”
Sigh. It’s just GB versus GiB. You guys should know better.