This is why our write speeds might be lower on the same drive as other sites. Most review sites have not fully updated their systems and many storage performance benchmarks have taken a pretty good ding with all the patches and fixes. It should be noted that our test system is fully patched for the Spectre & Meltdown vulnerabilities as you can see in our InSpectre Release #8 check that is shown above. The Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 16GB 3200MHz memory kit was run with CL15 memory timings and a Samsung SSD 850 PRO 512GB SATA SSD was used as the primary drive. This is important to point out as they include some of the fixes for Meltdown and Spectre design flaws that have recently rocked the PC Market. We used Intel Chipset Driver v10.1.1.45, Intel Management Engine Interface v11. The Intel Z370 platform that we used to test the storage drives was based around the ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-F Gaming motherboard with BIOS 0805 that came out in June 2018.
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Windows 10 also had the power option set to high performance and we also disabled c-states and Turbo mode on the Intel Core i7-8700K to ensure our numbers are spot on and repeatable.
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This means windows defender, windows update, disk fragmentation and everything else that would interfere with testing was disabled.
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All testing was done on a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (version 1709 build 16299) and benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no other software programs running. The SSD Benchmark Test System & TRIM Supportīefore we look at the numbers, lets take a brief look at the test system that was used.