Overall, in AS SSD, the 250GB 960 EVO reached 3825 points while the 1TB model reached 4305 points. Transfer speeds are displayed on the left with IOPS results on the right. For the most part, AS SSD tests can be considered the ‘worst case scenario’ in obtaining data transfer speeds and many enthusiasts like AS SSD for their needs. The toughest benchmark available for solid state drives is AS SSD as it relies solely on incompressible data samples when testing performance. The 250GB model seems to have a bit better performance in this test overall due to the double mount of DRAM to NAND ratio.

4K write performance is also very good with scores around the 250MB/s range. They are in line with SATA 850 EVO scores, if anything, a bit better.

Looking at 4K read speeds, they look to be good. The 250GB model achieved 3.2GB/s read and 1.6GB/s write while the 1TB model got a bit lower than rated performance in the sequential category with 3.1GB/s read and 1.7GB/s write. Performance is virtually identical, regardless of data sample so we have included only that using random data samples.Ĭrystal Disk Mark gives some good results. Crystal Disk Benchmark is used to measure read and write performance through sampling of random data which is, for the most part, incompressible.

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