Test Suite Overview Synthetic Tests: Basic IO Patterns Advanced Synthetic Tests: Block Sizes and Cache Size Effects Power Management, Conclusions The last major update to our consumer SSD benchmark suite was introduced in 2017. A lot has changed in the SSD market over the past several years, and our SSD testing methods need to change in response to those trends. SSDs in general have been getting more complex, so there are more ways for benchmarks to end up being misleading or unrealistic. This might be on accident, or as part of a deliberate PR strategy to obfuscate the real world performance behind a 'holy' unified metric. [pun intended]