Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0.3.
Plextor's M8Pe(G) is a very quick drive, particularly when it comes to reads. Having said that, it is no slouch when it comes to writes at even fairly deep queue depths either.
At a queue depth of 1 it is still impressive when it comes to 4K writes, but less so when it comes to 4K reads.
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