
Internally, CrystalDiskMark uses the Microsoft DiskSpd storage testing tool. Two of the traces are sequential accesses, while two are 4K random accesses. Real-world performance testing is done with our custom test suite involving robocopy bencharks and PCMark 8's storage bench.ĬrystalDiskMark uses four different access traces for reads and writes over a configurable region size. CrystalDiskMark is used for a quick performance overview. The testbed hardware (the Thunderbolt 3 / USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C port enabled by the Alpine Ridge host controller in the Hades Canyon NUC) is reused. Our evaluation routine for hard-drive based direct-attached storage devices borrows heavily from the testing methodology for flash-based direct-attached storage devices.
