MSI Z97S SLI PLUS (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Ryan Martin / 10 years ago
SATA, M.2 and USB Performance
To test the storage performance in our motherboard reviews we use AIDA’s Disk Benchmark utility built into their AIDA64 Engineer Edition software package and run linear read and write tests. We run each of the benchmark tests on a SATA III, USB 3.0 and M.2 device. For SATA III testing we use a Patriot WildFire 120GB SATA III SSD, for USB 3.0 testing we use the Kingston Hyper X 64 GB USB 3.0 flash drive and for M.2 testing we use Plextor’s 256GB M.2 M6e SSD. The drives are always formatted before use.
Linear Read
MSI’s board did very well on M.2 performance while SATA and USB 3.0 was a little bit behind other boards.
Linear Write
In write performance we find all the boards are too close to call.
