
Over the past year since the release of CrystalDiskMark 7, we have refined Project Priscilla, the common UI library for CrystalDiskMark and CrystalDiskInfo, and have expanded the basic functions, such as transparency support for edit boxes and combo boxes, 16-bit color support, Per-Monitor DPIv2 support, and Windows 10 dark mode support using a private API. Trust us, if you do not own an SSD, you need to own this one.In CrystalDiskMark 7, we were unable to implement the edit box transparency feature inevitably, and we had to provide a dedicated window & edit box to enter comments, which was very disappointing. SSDs will be able to perform much better than HDDs as SSDs do not have to physically move stuff around to access data. In result, lots of small accesses located all over the place can cripple a normal HDD. It only utilizes a single queue or thread to access data from your drive. It should be shown by default. The test of CrystalDiskMark 4K is not as exacting as the QD 32 test. If you keep over the MB/s, then you can view the IOPS result. For whatever reason, I/O Operations Per Second (IOPS) is not showed at all.

There are lots of people who said that CrystalDiskMark’s 512K test seems kind of redundant to them. In fact, the results were close to the sequential tests and we feel that the 4K test is the most useful test to run. As we explain before that CrystalDiskMark sequential test is constantly the ones with the highest results. So, how about a low CrystalDiskMark score? Let us discuss it now. In this section, we are going to explain about other types of CrystalDiskMark test. So, we do not suggest you mess with them too much if you only want a fast idea of your SSD or HDD performance.

Also, a file size of 1GB is a nice starting point. Usually, running the tests three times is enough to take an accurate result.

Apparently, there are five buttons on the left hand side.Īlso, there are three boxes on the top of the UI which offer you to choose the number of runs, the file size to use for the tests and the drive to run the tests on. Roght now, you will be able to download the latest version.

Besides, it is going to display the results in IOPS and MB/s. It is going to run sequential write and read tests as well as random write and read tests.
