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The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.
The goal of the benchmark is to show meaningful real-world performance differences between fast storage technologies such as SATA, NVMe, and Intel’s Optane. The Full System Drive Benchmark uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It typically takes an hour to run.
Traces used:
Booting Windows 10.
Adobe Acrobat – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Illustrator – starting the application until usable Adobe Premiere Pro – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Photoshop – starting the application until usable.
Battlefield V – starting the game until the main menu.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4 – starting the game until the main menu.
Overwatch – starting the game until main menu.
Using Adobe After Effects.
Using Microsoft Excel.
Using Adobe Illustrator.
Using Adobe InDesign.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Using Adobe Photoshop (heavy use).
Using Adobe Photoshop (light use).
cp1 Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test).
cp2 Making a copy of the ISO files (read-write test).
cp3 Copying the ISO to a secondary drive (read test).
cps1Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, to the target drive (write test).
cps2 Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
cps3 Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test).
When tested using the Adobe startup traces in PCMark10's Full System Drive benchmark, the drive produced an average of 307MB/s for the six tests. The fastest of these tests was the Premiere Pro trace, at 373MB/s, while the slowest was the Illustrator startup trace, at 234MB/s.
Switching over to the Adobe usage traces, the drive averaged 573MB/s, which includes the 1,226MB/s result for the Adobe Photoshop heavy usage trace. The slowest of the five traces was the InDesign trace at 232MB/s.
The three gaming traces produced an average result of 1,038MB/s, the fastest being Battlefield V at 1,417MB/s, next came Call Of Duty Black Ops 4 at 1,168MB/s and last and quite some way back, Overwatch at 530MB/s.
For the six file transfer tests, the drive averaged 3,556MB/s with the fastest transfer being the cp3 Read Test at 6,535MB/s.
The 8TB version of Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 didn't fare as well in the PCMark10 Full System Drive benchmark as the 2TB drive did, the smaller drive producing a bandwidth result some 198.59MB/s faster than the new flagship drive.
