


“ The storage workload is based on storage transaction traces from a wide variety of professional applications engaged in real work. We don’t run the entire benchmark, just the storage performance called WPCstorage. SPECworkstation 3.1 is a professional workstation benchmark based on diverse professional applications. To learn more about this benchmark, check out the technical guide. For example, Bandwidth is related to the amount of time that the storage device is executing I/Os. The bandwidth score and access time are also derived from a formula. There is a mathematical formula it uses to derive the score. Note that the overall score is derived from the bandwidth result and access time result. Higher scores are better, except for access time where lower is better. We report the overall score, the bandwidth result, access time result. The traces tested include: Booting Windows 10, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Battlefield V, Call of Duty Black Ops 4, Overwatch, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft PowerPoint, Copying ISO images, and copying JPEGs. It uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It uses many real-world traces from applications and common tasks to test performance. It is a good overall application type benchmark for drives with real-world application traces.

UL’s PCMark 10 is a powerful application benchmark for storage devices.
