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The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure the performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.
The goal of the benchmark is to show meaningful real-world performance differences between fast storage technologies such as SATA, NVMe, and Intel’s Optane. The Full System Drive Benchmark uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It typically takes an hour to run.
Traces used:
Booting Windows 10.
Adobe Acrobat – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Illustrator – starting the application until usable Adobe Premiere Pro – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Photoshop – starting the application until usable.
Battlefield V – starting the game until the main menu.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4 – starting the game until the main menu.
Overwatch – starting the game until main menu.
Using Adobe After Effects.
Using Microsoft Excel.
Using Adobe Illustrator.
Using Adobe InDesign.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Using Adobe Photoshop (heavy use).
Using Adobe Photoshop (light use).
cp1 Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test).
cp2 Making a copy of the ISO files (read-write test).
cp3 Copying the ISO to a secondary drive (read test).
cps1Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, to the target drive (write test).
cps2 Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
cps3 Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test).
When tested using the Adobe startup traces in PCMark10's Full System Drive benchmark, the drive produced an average of 248MB/s for the six tests. The fastest of these tests was the Premiere Pro trace, at 338MB/s, while the slowest was the Lightroom startup trace, at 196MB/s.
Switching over to the Adobe usage traces, the drive averaged 487MB/s, which includes the 956MB/s result for the Adobe Photoshop heavy usage trace. The slowest of the five traces was the InDesign trace at 192MB/s.
The three gaming traces produced an average result of 656MB/s, the fastest being Battlefield V at 859MB/s, next came Call of Duty Black Ops 4 at 734MB/s and last, Overwatch at 375MB/s. The drive averaged 3,130MB/s for the six file transfer tests, the fastest being 6,235MB/s for the cp1 read test.
Overall, the Netac NV150HK doesn't seem to handle the PCMark10 benchmark too well; its overall bandwidth figure of 536.73MB/s sees it firmly at the bottom of the results chart.
