Internals, Testing Methodology and System Setup
Internals:
Rear:
Disassembly:
PCB front:
Standard layout – virtually identical to that of the OCZ Vertex, Vector, and ARC. Here's a closer shot of the M00 controller and one of the A19nm flash packages:
PCB rear:
Testing Methodology
Our tests are a mix of synthetic and real-world benchmarks. PCMark, IOMeter, HDTach, HDTune, Yapt and our custom File Copy test round out the selection to cover just about all bases. If you have any questions about our tests just drop into the Storage Forum and we'll help you out!
Test System Setup
We currently employ a pair of testbeds. A newer ASUS P8Z77-V Pro/Thunderbolt and an ASUS Z87-PRO. Variance between both boards has been deemed negligible.
PC Perspective would like to thank ASUS, Corsair, and Kingston for supplying some of the components of our test rigs.
| Hard Drive Test System Setup | |
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4770K |
| Motherboard | ASUS P8Z77-V Pro/TB / ASUS Z87-PRO |
| Memory | Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3-2133 CL9 |
| Hard Drive | G.Skill 32GB SLC SSD |
| Sound Card | N/A |
| Video Card | Intel® HD Graphics 4600 |
| Video Drivers | Intel |
| Power Supply | Corsair CMPSU-650TX |
| DirectX Version | DX9.0c |
| Operating System | Windows 8.1 X64 |
- PCMark Vantage and 7
- Yapt
- IOMeter
- HDTach
- HDTune
- PCPer File Copy Test
Nice article. The product?
Nice article. The product? Yawn-stretch.
The thoughts under the IO
The thoughts under the IO graph are from previous article… Does nobody read these? 😉
It’s similar to the last
It's similar to the last Barefoot piece, but I am also talking about the R7 results in this piece (there were 4x Barefoot 3 SSDs in this review).