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The test system and testing methodology
We tested the Solid State Disk drive by connecting it to a motherboard with the Intel Z68 or the Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD4-B3.
The motherboard is equipped with a 3.2 GHz Intel i7 2600K belonging to the second generation of Core architecture of Intel i7 series.
The complete configuration can be found in the table below:
To perform the test we used Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1, and we used the following synthetic benchmarks:
- HD Tune Pro 4.60 (reading and writing)
- ATTO Disk benchmark 2.46
- HD Tach 3.0.4.0
- Crystal Disk Mark 3.0
- AIDA 64 1.5