
if/how you are affected is a question of your usage. some of the changes they made have negative effect on performance. You don´t judge a car only by how it fares on perfectly prepared racetrack.Īnd while the 980 pro is sure a nice SSD. If you want to give your readers (as a youtuber/reviewer) more "value" then you need to dig a bit deeper. Running a few benchmarks is something everyone does. I could give a few more examples but i think it has become clear what i mean. CrystalDiskMark is a drive benchmark tool which conducts a series of Sequential, 512K and 4K read and write tests.

#CRYSTAL DISKMARK BENCHMARKS SERIAL#
A summary of terms: HDD SATA - Serial ATA bus Laptops use 2.5 and full size are 3. Reviewers on Amazon commonly use this tool. The PC utility requires minimal configuration and out of the box reports several common speed measurements: Read and write speeds for Sequential (large contiguous files), 512 KB (medium) and 4 KB (small) files. CrystalDiskInfo is good for the information, and CrystalDiskMark - scroll down page gives a good idea of benchmark speed. The software measures the speed of the data reading and recording of the. Some would actually be better of to buy a bigger and slower SSD than a smaller and faster SSD. CrystalDiskMark allows you to benchmark any type of disk drive. CrystalDiskMark a software is designed to test the performance of the hard disks. They look at 3500 vs 7000 MB/s and think it will be twice as fast. There are quite some differences how badly SSD models will behave.įor most gamers the great looking numbers of PCI 4.0 SSDs yield next to nothing (on a PC) in real world usage. Let say your a photographer that fills up the SSD quite often when he returns from a shooting. It takes eight measurements: the read and write speeds in megabytes per second ( MBps) for sequential, 512KB, random 4KB and 4KB parallel disk operations.

Synthetic workloads might have the "downside" of not being "Real World use", whatever the hell that is, CrystalDiskMark is a free disk benchmarking utility that is very simple to use.
