System Overview & Testing Procedures
Before you can start using your drive you need to install the NVMe driver. You can use the driver on the included CD, but I would suggest downloading the driver directly from Intel.
Once you have your drive installed and formatted you have 372 GB of usable space.
Opening up CrystalDiskInfo we can see all of the information about the drive. You can see the drive supports the NVM Express 1.0 / 1.1 standard.
For testing the drive we will be using the following benchmarking programs, we have provided links to each so you can run the benchmarks on your drive for comparison.
HDTune Pro (download)
ATTO Disk Benchmark (download)
CrystalDiskMark 64bit (download)
AS SSD Benchmark (download)
Anvil Storage Utility Professional (download)
PCMark 8 – Storage Benchmark (download)
AIDA64 Storage Benchmark (download)
We also made these optimization changes…
– No power saving options in the BIOS
– ACHI enabled in the BIOS
– Windows 7 User Account Control (UAC) is disabled
– Windows 7 power saving settings are disabled
So let’s get into testing!
