HP S700 Pro 512GB Solid State Drive Review

Drive Information & Testing Procedures
Just like any other 2.5-inch solid state drive just plug the HP S700 Pro into SATA power and data in your system and you are good to go. Once you have the drive installed and formatted you are left with 476 GB of usable space.

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Opening up CrystalDiskMark we can see the drive supports S.M.A.R.T., NCQ, TRIM, and DevSleep.

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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 10 User Account Control (UAC) is disabled
– Windows 10 power saving settings are disabled

So let’s get into testing!

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