ECS Z97I-Drone LEET Gaming (LGA 1150) Review
Rikki Wright / 10 years ago
SATA, M.2 and USB Performance
To test the storage performance in our motherboard reviews we use AIDA’s Disk Benchmark utility built into their AIDA64 Engineer Edition software package and run linear read and write tests. We run each of the benchmark tests on a SATA III, USB 3.0 and M.2 device. For SATA III testing we use a SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB, for USB 3.0 testing we use the Supersonic Magnum 256 GB USB 3.0 flash drive and for M.2 testing we use Plextor’s 256GB M.2 M6e SSD. The drives are always formatted before use.
Linear Read
Linear Write
Despite this motherboard offering an M.2 port, the space available isn’t suitable for our M.2 SSD. This would be more suited to that of a WiFi/ Bluetooth card. In the other tests, it performed on par with the rest of the motherboards.
