Started testing Intel drive using IOMeter. Two tests have been carried out so far.
128K Sequential Read
128K Sequential Write
Rated speed on 128K Sequential Read by Intel is 2200 MBPS
Tested speed on 128K Sequential Read is 2360.14 MBPS
Rated speed on 128K Sequential Write by Intel is 900 MBPS
Tested speed on 128K Sequential Write is 994.15 MBPS [Almost touching the 1000 MBPS figure]
These tests were run on this bench config:
i7 6700k @ 4.00 GHz
16 Gigs G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 @ 2133 MHz [No XMP]
Asus Maximus VIII Hero
What is interesting is the factor that when I ran the test on the drive when it was being boot drive the performance numbers suffer by the margin of 250-300 MBPs on these tests. Above figures are when this drive is operated as non OS/Boot drive. Also, SATA based drive still is faster in boot time.
Time for testing 4k Random Read/Write IOPs. Will post results once the tests are done. Looking after my daughter now as she is feeling sick and yet today is her birthday.
Erwin Klein Haneveld James Bryant Alexander Bocquel Anastasios Fotiadis Ivan Marijanović