WD Blue SN500 500GB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. WD SN500 500GB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. IOMETER8. 128KB Sequential Performance9. 4K Random Read Performance10. 4K Random Write Performance11. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance12. Throughput13. PCMark 8 - Storage Consistency14. PCMark 8 - Individual Test Suites15. PCMark 8 Storage Test - Individual Test Suites16. Performance Stability17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

PCMark 8’s Consistency test provides a huge amount of performance data, so here we’ve looked a little closer at how the WD Blue SN500 performs in each of the benchmarks test suites.

Adobe Creative Cloud

The drive struggles throughout the Adobe CC part of the test – especially the Photoshop Heavy, Photoshop Light and Indesign test traces. Although these three tests prove challenging to the drive it does recover well, with the best recovery performance coming from the two Photoshop tests. However, the recovery for all the tests isn't exactly what you would call smooth.

Microsoft Office

The Microsoft Office part of the test really stresses the drive, with all three test traces causing the drive problems throughout the Degradation and Steady State phases. The recovery for all three is pretty good, however.

Casual Gaming

In the casual gaming part of the test, the drive copes with the World Of Warcraft trace much easier than with the Battlefield 3 trace, which suffers a huge drop in performance in the second Steady State run.

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