Overclockers UK Infin8 Nebula Custom Watercooled Gaming PC

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0.3. We test the Samsung 250GB 850 EVO drive and the Seagate Barracuda 3TB.

The Samsung 250GB 850 EVO Drive is a great performer although we expected a little more from the drive in this test – we think OCUK are using one of the ASMedia ASM1061 controlled ports for this drive, rather than one of the native Intel controlled ports. HDD performance is as good as we would expect – hitting 200MB/s in both read and write tests.

As we said after the CrystalDiskMark test, we think the lower performance from the SSD is related to OCUK using one of the ASMEDIA controlled SATA ports on the motherboard, its easy enough to move it over. HDD performance is strong.

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