Crucial M550 SSD (512GB) Review – Consistent Performance Never Looked So Good!

ANVIL STORAGE UTILITIES PROFESSIONAL (BETA)

Anvil Storage Utilities is essentially an all-in-one tool for all of your SSD benchmarking needs. Anvil can be used for basic consumer testing, as well as endurance testing and threaded I/O read, write and mixed tests. It displays data regarding the SSD, and even about your system.

ASU produces similar scores to what we have already seen through our other benchmark tests, as the Crucial M550 produces a sequential read speed of 508MB/s, and write speed of 468MB/s. The SSD also produced a total score of 4707.

PCMARK VANTAGE X64 HDD SUITE

Technology X uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience. There are eight tests in all and the tests performed record the speed of data movement in MB/s to which they are then given a numerical score after all of the tests are complete. The simulations are as follows:

• Windows Defender In Use
• Streaming Data from storage in games such as Alan Wake which allows for massive worlds and riveting non-stop action
• Importing digital photos into Windows Photo Gallery
• Starting the Vista Operating System
• Home Video editing with Movie Maker which can be very time-consuming
• Media Center which can handle video recording, time shifting and streaming from Windows media center to an extender such as Xbox
• Cataloging a music library
• Starting applications
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CRUCIAL M550 PCMARK VANTAGE TOTAL SCORE

We tested the Crucial M550 SSD using PCMark Vantage’s HDD Suite testing software, where the SSD produced a fantastic score of 72118. The SSD also produced SATA 3 speeds for six of the eight tests, as well as pushing 420 MB/s for Windows Media centre use.