For testing, the drives are all wiped and reset to factory settings by HDDerase V4. We try to use free or easily available programs and some real world testing so you can compare our findings with your own system.
This is a good way to measure potential upgrade benefits.
Here is a list of software we use in today's tests:
*CrystalDiskMark
*ATTO Disk Benchmark
*AS SSD
*IOMETER
For our tests today, the drive was placed in a system sporting an Intel Core i7 5820K, 16GB of DDR4 RAM and the ASUS X99-A motherboard.