Test Environment & Equipment
Hardware & Software Used
We now begin the benchmark portion of this article, but first let me show you our test system and the software we used:
Storage
Seagate 8 TB HDD - Archive series V2
Mainboard
X99 - Intel SATA 6G controller at AHCI mode
Processor
Core i7 5960X
Graphics Cards
AMD Radeon R9 Nano
Memory
16 GB (4x 4096 MB) DDR3 2133 MHz
Power Supply Unit
1200 Watt
Monitor
Dell 3007WFP - up to 2560x1600
OS related Software
Windows 10 64-bit
Software benchmark suite
- PCMark Vantage HDD test 1 through 8
- Anvil's Storage Utilities
- ATTO Disk benchmark
- SiSoft Sandra Storage Benchmark
- HDTach
- HDTune Pro
- IOMeter
- AS SSD Benchmark
- File Copy Compressed test
- File Copy Uncompressed test
