Microsoft built DirectStorage specifically for NVMe drives. Most storage reviews use the popular CrystalDiskMark 8, so let’s start there for a look at general performance of these SSDs.

Benchmarks: CrystalDiskMark 3.0 Interestingly, we saw exceptionally high sequential write (upload) performance for the Synology DS1515 in CrystalDiskMark and its read performance maxed out the ...

The CrystalDiskMark sequential performance test shows the Samsung 640GB hard drive to have a read and write throughput of about 100MB/s. The Intel X25-M 80GB only produced a write result of 75MB/s ...