The reasons to purchase a flash drive are as varied as the consumers who purchase them. For some read performance matters, for others it is read performance, for others still it is small file performance that is paramount.
With such a wide variety of criteria it behooves us to offer a variety of test suites that focus in on different things. For synthetic tests we used a combination of the AS-SSD and Crystal Disk Benchmark.
For real world (non-gaming orientated) testing we have used timed data transfer scenarios. For these tests we timed how long a single 30GB rar file took to copy to and then from the devices. We also used 15gb of small files (from 100kb to 200MB) with a total 36,000 files in 1200 subfolders.
All tests were run 4 times and average results are represented.
To ensure optimum performance in between each test run the device was sanitary erased.
Main Test System
Processor: Intel i7 5930K
Memory: 32GB (4x8GB) Crucial Ballistic Elite
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth X99
Cooling: Noctua U12S
SSD: 1x Intel 750 1.2TB NVMe SSD
Power Supply: Corsair AX860i
Monitor: Dell U2714H
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
Special thanks to Crucial for providing the RAM for this testbed
