Western Digital Black PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe 512GB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. WD Black PCIe 512GB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. IOMETER8. PCMark8 - Storage Consistency9. PCMark8 - Individual Test Suites10. PCMark8 Storage Test - Individual Test Suites11. Performance Stability12. Real Life File Testing13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

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%.

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