For the long term performance stability test, we set the drive up to run a 20-minute 4K random test with a 30% write, 70% read split, at a Queue Depth of 256 over the entire disk. The 800GB Neutron NX500 averaged 136,002 IOPS for the test with a performance stability of 81% which is very good.
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