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 960GB UV500 averaged 31,870 IOPS for the test with a performance stability of 68.45%, which for this class of drive is pretty good.
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