Sapphire EDGE HD3 Mini PC Review

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0 x64.

The EDGE HD3 uses a slow Samsung HM321HI 2.5 inch drive which is a 5,400 rpm drive with a 8MB cache. The results above confirm our findings that the unit can be sluggish at times, as the drive spools data between memory and the platter. It is a shame Sapphire didn't use a higher speed 7,200 rpm unit as the results would improve from 78 MB/s to around 100 MB/s.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously. Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.

Hard drive performance is quite poor via the ATTO benchmark, showing heavy transfer rate fluctuation between various file sizes. Peak speeds are around 80 MB/s which would mirror the CrystalDiskMark results above.

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