Page 10 - Benchmark: PCMark 8
About PCMark 8
PCMark 8 is the latest version in our series of popular PC benchmarking tools. It is designed to test the performance of all types of PC, from tablets to desktops. With five separate benchmark tests plus battery life testing, PCMark 8 helps you find the devices that offer the perfect combination of efficiency and performance. PCMark 8 is the complete PC benchmark for home and business.
From: Developer's Page
PCMark 8 Storage Consistency Test is one of our favorite benchmarks. Nowadays, many drives are well optimized for high benchmark scores when they are empty, but what separates the professional players from the amateurs is how it stands up to a truly punishing workload. PCMark 8's Storage Consistency Test is designed exactly for this purpose. Going through five phases -- precondition, degradation, steady state, recovery, and clean up -- to extend beyond real world application simulations, this benchmark takes just over two days to complete, but the results are revealing of a SSD's true capabilities. Overall, the Toshiba RC100 240GB's results were poor. Not just poor for its class; simply poor overall. In the first chart, it was totally dominated by the Toshiba OCZ RC400A; there was a gap between the two that could park an Airbus A380. In the second chart, where it was compared against the Patriot Hellfire 240GB, the gap was a bit closer, but still wide enough you can park a Boeing 747. Since the RC100 was no match for NVMe drives, I decided to throw in a budget Serial ATA drive to see how it fared. In the third chart, where it was compared against the Crucial MX500 500GB, the RC100 managed to catch up in the recovery phases, but in the degrade and steady phases, the gap was still wide enough to fit a current generation Boeing 737... with room to spare. Needless to say, the budget oriented nature of this drive was clearly demonstrated in this test.
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 3.0
6. Benchmark: HD Tach 3.0.1.0
7. Benchmark: HD Tune Pro 4.60
8. Benchmark: PassMark PerformanceTest 9.0
9. Benchmark: PCMark Vantage
10. Benchmark: PCMark 8
11. Conclusion
