CrystalDiskMark is a small HDD benchmark utility for your hard drive that enables you to rapidly measure sequential and random read/write speeds.
Here are some key features of “CrystalDiskMark”:
- Sequential reads/writes
- Random 4KB/512KB reads/writes
- Text copy
- Change dialog design
- internationalization (i18n)
Like AS SSD we find a lower sequential write speed to what we would expect from the box, but again this is down to the memory and controller combo that has been used meaning that compressible data is favoured more as we should see within Anvil’s Storage Utilities.
It’s pricey at the moment probably because it hasn’t saturated the retail channel yet. You can easily find Kingston’s same capacity HyperX 3K going for a bit less. Hang on a while & it’s sure to drop in price. On another note Kingston always use that yucky green pcb on all of their DRAM modules, even the high end ones which can be easily noticed but on this drive they use a nicer looking blue pcb which should never be seen. Go figure.