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
- MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge WiFi
Other Drives
- Corsair Force MP600 1TB
- Patriot Viper VPN4100 1TB
- Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 1TB
- Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 2TB
- Samsung SSD980 PRO 1TB
- Seagate FireCuda 520 1TB
- Teamgroup T-Force Cardea Zero Z440 1TB
- WD Black SN850 1TB
Software
- ATTO Disk Benchmark 4.
- CrystalMark 7.0.0.
- 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.