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 against your own system.
This is a good way to measure potential upgrade benefits.
Main system:
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 16GB DDR4-2400, Sapphire R9 390 Nitro and an MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge Wifi motherboard
Other drives
Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X 750GB
Intel SSD DCP4510 8TB
Kingston DCP1000 1.2TB (RAID 0)
Kingston DCP1000 1.2TB (RAID 1)
Kingston DC1000B 480GB
Kingston KC1000 960GB
Software:
Atto Disk Benchmark 4.
CrystalMark 8.0.0.
AS SSD 2.0.
IOMeter.
Futuremark PC Mark 10.
All our results were achieved by running each test five times with every configuration this ensures that any glitches are removed from the results. Trim is confirmed as running by typing fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify into the command line. A response of disabledeletenotify =0 confirms TRIM is active.
To help us test the Optane DC P5800X, Intel kindly provided us with a U.2 to PCIe slot adapter.