Test Bench
For our tests, we used the Project Core Arancio system, which is comprised of the following components.
| CPU | Intel Core i7-6800K @ 3.4GHz |
| Cooling | All Thermaltake LCS with RayStorm Pro CPU water block |
| Motherboard | ASRock Fatal1ty X99 Killer |
| Ram | 4 x 8GB Adata XPG Dazzle DDR4-2800MHz |
| PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower DSP G RGB 750W PSU |
| GPU | Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4GB GDDR5) |
| SSD |
Zotac Premium Edition SSD 240GB |
Performance and Benchmarks
ATTO Disk Benchmark
ATTO disk benchmarks show a peak write speed of 538 MB/sec, while read speed reaches 563 MB/sec. Excellent, one of the best scores I’ve seen so far.
Crystal DiskMark
Another great result here. For Crystal DiskMark, the Zotac Premium SSD 240GB gives a maximum of 562.4 MB/sec read speed, while maximum write speed is around 538.2 MB/sec.
Anvil Storage Utilities
Anvil Storage Utilities shows us the IOPS performance of the Zotac Premium SSD 240GB. We have got a maximum of 87.9K for read, and 79K for write. Again, a superb result.
PCMark 8 (Disk Benchmark)
We got an overall storage score of 4953 on the PCMark 8 Disk Benchmark, with a storage bandwidth if 245.06 MB/sec. Another excellent result, it’s one of the best scores I’ve seen so far.
