Anyone want to interpret these results?

[merk]

Not sure there is anything to see here, but I thought the SSDs should be more consistent. The 2 Samsung SSDs are in a RAID 0 array. They are probably around 5 years old now. I'm posting 2 runs that I did back to back.

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  | ReadSpeed: Hyper-accurate mass storage read-performance benchmark. rel 1 |
  |  Benchmarked values are in megabytes read per second at five locations.  |
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Driv Size  Drive Identity     Location:    0      25%     50%     75%     100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
 81  250GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB     338.1   476.0   391.3   530.7   405.6
 82  320GB WDC WD3200AAKS-00VYA0          74.9    71.7    64.4    54.7    35.9
  3  250GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB     301.8   454.6   334.6   528.4   380.8

                  Benchmarked: Saturday, 2020-12-26 at 19:41
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   See the ReadSpeed forums at forums.grc.com for help and community support. 


  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | ReadSpeed: Hyper-accurate mass storage read-performance benchmark. rel 1 |
  |  Benchmarked values are in megabytes read per second at five locations.  |
  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Driv Size  Drive Identity     Location:    0      25%     50%     75%     100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
 81  250GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB     368.0   474.0   398.1   531.0   408.2
 82  320GB WDC WD3200AAKS-00VYA0          74.9    71.7    64.4    54.7    35.9
  3  250GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB     351.0   463.7   352.7   531.6   397.8

                  Benchmarked: Saturday, 2020-12-26 at 19:44
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   See the ReadSpeed forums at forums.grc.com for help and community support.

 

[Steve]

@merk : Look at the two runs of the WD drive in the middle. Each of the 5 run-to-run results are identical. That demonstrates that on your hardware (as everywhere else) the benchmark is rock solid... which means that the SSDs really ARE returning differing results. I believe this is due to varying levels of on-the-fly error correction being needed. I think we're going to be able to fix that in the future.