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
The 970 EVO Plus did fairly well throughout PCMark's consistency test. While not as fast as the 970 PRO and 970 EVO, it performed better than the drives from Plextor, ADATA and Crucial during the degradation and steady state phases. The 970 EVO Plus's performance also increased during the recovery phase, topping out at about 1,291 MB/s.
