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Crucial M500 vs. Samsung SSD 840 EVO - Battle of the Mainstream SSDs

By Kenny Yeo - 10 Feb 2014

Results - Futuremark PCMark 7 (Secondary Storage Suite)

PCMark 7 Results

PCMark 7 is a benchmarking suite from FutureMark that evaluates the performance of Windows 7 machines. It tests a wide range workloads and aspects of the system ranging from computation, image and video manipulation and storage. We’ll be looking solely at the storage test here.

The Samsung SSD 840 EVO narrowly edged out the Crucial M500 on PCMark 7, scoring about 4% more. The SSD 840 EVO’s scores were also comparable to the Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme and OCZ Vector 150. Looking at the score breakdown, we can see that the Samsung SSD 840 EVO edges the Cruclal M500 in the Importing Pictures, Starting Applications and Gaming workloads. 

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