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
- Corsair MP600 PRO 2TB
- Corsair Force MP600 1TB
- Corsair MP600 PRO XT 2TB
- Crucial P5 Plus 1TB
- Gigabyte AORUS 7000e 2TB
- HP FX900 Pro 2TB
- Kingston KC3000 2TB
- Kioxia Exceria Pro 2TB
- MSI Spatium M480 2TB
- Patriot Viper VP4300 2TB
- Patriot Viper VPN4100 1TB
- PNY XLR8 CS3040 1TB
- PNY XLR8 CS3140 1TB
- Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 1TB
- Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 2TB
- Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 4TB
- Samsung SSD980 PRO 1TB
- Samsung SSD980 PRO Heatsink 1TB
- Seagate FireCuda 520 1TB
- Seagate FireCuda 530 2TB
- Teamgroup T-Force Cardea Zero Z440 1TB
- Teamgroup T-Force Cardea A440 Pro Special Series 1TB
- WD Black SN770 1TB
- WD Black SN850 1TB
- WD Black SN850X Heatsink 2TB
Software:
- Atto Disk Benchmark 4.
- CrystalMark 8.0.0.
- AS SSD 2.0.
- IOMeter.
- UL Solutions PC Mark 10.
- UL Solutions 3DMark Storage Benchmark.
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.