Performance Tests

Performance Testing

One thing I would say before you look at the numbers below. It’s worth noting that synthetic benchmarks don’t always mirror real world performance. This is quite evident in the final test I do with a large file transfer which yields surprising results!

Kingston claim some reasonable SATA performance numbers with Read up to 550MB/s and Write up to 520MB/s. For our tests, I’ll be using the following test bench:

CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X

Motherboard: MSI X99S XPower AC

PSU: eVGA SuperNOVA 1200 P2

Comparison drives: Samsung 850 Evo 1TB SATA SSD, Western Digital Black 4TB 7200RPM.

RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400MHz

And yes, you saw that right. I’m including a proper old school platter based HDD in these tests (what can I say, I’m a patient guy!) just in case we have any HDD stalwarts out there aching for yet more evidence they should make the jump.

Crystal Disk Mark 5

The ever present Crystal DM5 is the first test up in our suite. The results are pretty solid from the Kingston on the read front, slightly outperforming stated on the read front but seem surprisingly down on the write speed. This isn’t to say it’s slow (check out the HDD for that!), but the Samsung is performing much more in line with stated performance figures. Bringing up the rear in every single performance measure is the WD Black of course.

 

 

 

Samsung Magician

Samsung Magician shows a similar result. With a slight reversal in that the Kingston is actually beating the Samsung in its own software for both the sequential and random reads. On the write speeds though, the 850 Evo is a clear winner, with the WD Black as expected, bringing up the rear in all performance categories.

 

 

 

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