AIDA64
AIDA64 is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users. It provides a wide range of features to assist in overclocking, hardware error diagnosis, stress testing, and sensor monitoring.
It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives and is compatible with most Microsoft Windows operating systems. It also has a disk benchmark tool, and that is the one we’ll be using.
Fresh Drive
Conditioned Drive
Drive Comparison
For the purpose of drive comparison, I will be using the performance figures from both unconditioned and conditioned tests with 0% data-fill.
Of course the drive can’t beat the speeds of a PCIe SSD, but otherwise we see a great performance from the Kingston M.2 SATA 120GB drive in AIDA64. It even peeks up 629MB/s at times thanks to the M.2 connection.
