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Intel SSD 510 Series 250 GB Review
Windows 7 Startup & Software Installation »Test Setup
| Test System | |
|---|---|
| CPU: | Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.3 GHz (Sandy Bridge, 6192 KB Cache) |
| Motherboard: | ASUS P8H67-M EVO Intel H67 |
| Memory: | 2x 2048 MB Crucial Ballistix Finned DDR3 @ 1333 MHz 6-6-6-18 |
| Graphics: | Intel Integrated |
| Software: | Windows 7 64-bit Service Pack 1 |
| Drivers: | SATA: Microsoft AHCI Display: Intel 15.21.13 |
- After initial configuration and installation we created a disk image that will be used to test every drive.
- Automated updates were disabled for all programs. This ensures that for every review each drive will get the same starting point without possible pollution from previous testing.
- Our disk image consumes around 25 GB on disk, we resized the partition to fill all available space on the drive.
- Partitions were checked to be aligned.
- In order to minimize random variation, each of the performance tests is run ten times, with reboots in between tests to minimize the impact of disk cache.
- We used the average of the ten runs as final score.
- All application benchmarks run the actual application and do not replay any disk traces.