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

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0.3.

The WD Black PCIe drive lags behind the rest of its peers when it comes to dealing with small bity files at a queue depth of 32 for both reads and writes. At a shallow queue depth, its write performance completely outshines the read.

Comparing the two sets of results, the Marvell controller seems to have no strong preference when it comes to types of data it is being asked to handle.

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