PCMark, Game Loading, SPECworkstation
There's nothing in it for game-loading times. However, up the intensity ante and differences do appear. PCMark 10's drive performance consistency test is a long-running and extremely demanding workload with a heavy, continuous load. Taking up to 20 hours, it subjects the drives to degradation, steady-state and recovery phases, hammering them incessantly. Scores reported are from the worst-case steady-state phase.
We see about half the bandwidth of the Corsair, along with over twice the latency, but remember these are scores when the drives are on their proverbial knees. Even in this state, budget SSDs are still some ways better than a spinning HDD.
SPECworkstation also gives each drive a good going over by running 60 tests. Here, the Corsair is almost 50 per cent faster, with the gains being evenly distributed across reads, writes, and IOPs.
