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 the degraded state and the recovered state. For this test, we are focusing on the Adobe Photoshop (Heavy) trace and will look at both the bandwidth and latency of the drive
Like the 2.5-inch version of the MX300, the MX300 M.2 didn't do as well as some of the other drives in this test. Its bandwidth dropped below 40 MB/s during the degradation and steady phases, pushing its latency well above the 1000ms mark. The MX300 M.2's performance increased somewhat during the recovery phase. Its bandwidth topped out at about 300 MB/s, putting it in the middle of the pack.
