For the long term performance stability test, we set the drive up to run a 20-minute 4K random test with a 30% write, 70% read split, at a Queue Depth of 256 over the entire disk. The WD Black PCIe 512GB drive averaged 23,017 IOPS for the test with a performance stability of 53.17%.
Theyd better be pretty cheap then! I was expecting something somewhere upwards of 200k iops on both read and write… and upwards of 1gb/s on write too…
Only last saturday I picked up a 250GB Samsung 960 Evo PCIe NVMe. I’ve paired it up with a Asus Gene and a fresh install of Windows and it is blisteringly fast. Is it an absolute must have item for the average user…….probably not, but still, what computer geek considers himself the average user.