Vantage PCMark 8 - Storage Test:
PCMark 8 is a complete benchmark for Windows. It includes five benchmark tests, each designed around a specific scenario. The storage benchmark measures drive performance using real-world traces recorded from Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office and a selection of popular games.
PCMark 8 also includes a consistency test which measures the performance consistency and degradation tendency of a storage system. The test reports the performance level at the start, the degraded steady-state and the recovered state as well as the number of iterations required to reach them. For this test, we are focusing on the Adobe Photoshop (Heavy) trace and will look at both the bandwidth and latency of the drive
The BX300 did fairly well throughout PCMark's consistency test. While not as fast as the Toshiba OCZ VX500, it performed better than the ADATA Ulimate SU900 and Plextor S3C throughout the degradation and steady state phases. The BX300's performance also increased during the recovery phase, topping out at about 214 MB/s.
