Passmark Advanced Multi-User Tests

Version and / or Patch Used: 6.1

Developer Homepage: http://www. passmark.com/

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Many users complain that I/O Meter is too complicated of a benchmark to replicate results so my quest to find an alternative was started. Passmark has added several multi-user tests that measure a hard drives ability to operate in a multi-user environment.

The tests use different settings to mimic basic multi-user operations as they would play out on your server. Variances is read / write percentage as well as random / sequential reads are common in certain applications, Web Servers read nearly 100% of the time while Database Servers write a small amount of data.

The Workstation test is the only single user environment and will be similar to how you use your system at home.

The Samsung version of this drive is considered and sold as an enterprise drive. As you can see, that level of performance has carried over to G.Skill's offering. The G.Skill 25S2-64GB gave us the best workstation / server benchmark scores to date.