Samsung 470 Series 256GB SSD – Long Term Test Results

CrystalDiskMark – Then and Now

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.0h

CrystalDiskMark is a small benchmark utility for drives and enables rapid measurement of sequential and random read/write speeds. Note that CDM only supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with a queue depth of 32 (as noted) for the last listed benchmark score. This can skew some results in favor of controllers that also do not support NCQ.

CrystalDiskMark Intial Test

CrystalDiskMark Mid Term Test – March 15

CrystalDiskMark Final Test – April 15

Benchmark Results: Again, performance numbers remained relatively consistent during the course of the evaluation with the sequential writes taking the biggest hit. The other scores are virtually unchanged.