Intel SSD 750 Series PCIe SSD Review: NVMe For Desktop Performance
Test System, SANDRA Disk and File System Benchmarks
Our Test Methodologies:
Under each test condition, the SSDs tested here were installed as secondary volumes in our testbed, with a dedicated disk for the OS and benchmark software installations. The drives were left blank without partitions where necessary, unless a test required them to be partitioned and formatted, as was the case with our ATTO and CrystalDiskMark benchmark tests. Windows firewall, automatic updates, and screen savers were all disabled before testing. In all test runs, we rebooted the system and waited several minutes for drive activity to settle before invoking a test.Important Note:
We should also underscore the fact that the other PCI Express SSDs we're comparing the Intel SSD 750 to here are admittedly very stiff competition and in many cases cost literally thousands of dollars more than the consumer-enthusiast and workstation-targeted SSD 750 line. Rather than comparing the new Intel PCIe SSD to a stable of standard SATA SSDs, however, we felt it made more sense to compare it to other PCI Express SSDs on the market that are in its performance class.
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Hardware Used: Intel Core i7-3960X Intel DX79SR, X79 chipset NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 16GB Kingston DDR3-1600 Integrated on board Intel X25E 160GB SSD (OS Drive) Intel SSD 750 Series NVMe PCIe 1.2TB SSD Intel SSD DC P3700 NVMe PCIe 800GB SSD OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480GB PCIe LSI WarpDrive 300GB PCIe Fusion-io ioDrive 160GB Intel SSD 910 800GB PCIe SSD OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB PCIe SSD |
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Relevant Software: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Latest Intel Inf package Latest NVIDIA WHQL Benchmarks Used: IOMeter 1.1.0 RC ATTO v2.47 CrystalDiskMark v3.03 x64 Alex-IS AS-SSD Benchmark 1.6.42 SiSoftware Sandra 2014 Futuremark PCMark 7 Storage |
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For our first set of tests, we used SiSoft SANDRA, the the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. Here, we used the Physical Disk test suite and provided the results from our comparison SSDs. The benchmarks were run without formatting on all drives and read and write performance metrics are detailed below.
SANDRA's File System benchmark exhibits combined Read/Write throughput on blank, formatted volumes and generates an aggregate "score" in overall throughput.
