Page 5 - Benchmark: Crystal Disk Mark 8.0
About Crystal Disk Mark
- Measure Sequential and Random Performance (Read/Write/Mix)
- Peak/Real World Performance Profile
From: Developer's Page
Crystal Disk Mark 8.0 is in the spotlight. Just a bit of background information, higher capacity drives tend to perform a little better in these tests. The ability of a controller and flash memory to deliver high IOPS will provide huge benefits to the score as well. As manufacturer peak read and write performance ratings are usually achievable using Crystal Disk Mark, whether a drive lives up to its marketing claims or not can be validated by this program.
Lexar claims the PLAY 1TB's maximum read and maximum write are pinned at 5200MB/s and 4700MB/s, respectively. Looking at the read and write results, the PLAY 1TB was about mid-tier in the sequential read and write sections against other PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives, but this was to be expected per the specifications. The tested numbers were pretty much bang on compared to the advertised numbers. In the remaining tests, it was closer to budget mainstream drives like the Crucial P5 Plus than budget performance drives, delivering significantly lower results than the WD_BLACK SN770M 2TB in every test except for the RND4K Q1T1 test. Overall, the Lexar PLAY 1TB was acceptable for a compact budget performance SSD. I will let you make your own comparisons in our list of NVMe SSDs in the graphs above.
Page Index
1. Introduction, Packaging, Specifications
2. A Closer Look, Test System
3. Benchmark: AIDA64 Disk Benchmark
4. Benchmark: ATTO Disk Benchmark
5. Benchmark: Crystal Disk Mark 8.0
6. Benchmark: HD Tune Pro 5.70
7. Benchmark: PassMark PerformanceTest 10
8. Benchmark: PCMark 10
9. Benchmark: 3DMark
10. Conclusion
