Testing – SATA, USB & Network
To test SATA, M.2, and USB speeds we make use of CrystalDiskMark hard drive benchmarking tool. First up is our SATA drive which is the ADATA XPG SX950 drive.
For the M.2 test we will be using the Western Digital WD Black NVMe drive.
For the USB 3.1 tests we also use CrystalDiskMark. We actually decided to use a the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD.
To test the network adapter performance we use LAN Speed Test. First up we have the normal Gigabit Ethernet port.
Next is the WiFi adapter.
Power consumption for a system is of course very important. To measure power consumption I used a killawatt meter. The idle test is taken on the Windows 10 desktop and the load test is taken while running AIDA64’s system stability test with GPU’s enabled. Remember these values are for the entire system.
