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What thousands of real benchmark uploads say about SSDs, hard drives and the machines they live in. Every number comes from DiskBoard users' own computers.

27 August 2026

The fastest SSDs in real computers, ranked by DiskBoard users

Review sites test one drive, in one machine, on one day. DiskBoard users test the drive they own, in the computer they use, with whatever motherboard, cable, driver and background load they actually have. The numbers…
30 July 2026

Can you trust a 512 MB benchmark? We checked every DiskBoard result for cache effects

DiskBoard's default test writes and reads a 512 MB file. A reasonable objection: 512 MB fits comfortably in RAM, so is the read test measuring the drive or the operating system's file cache? We went through every…
23 June 2026

Five things thousands of benchmark uploads taught us about SSDs

Almost everyone runs the DiskBoard test with the default single thread, and that is the right setting for comparing drives. But it is not the drive's ceiling. NVMe drives are built to serve many requests at once, and…
14 May 2026

NVMe vs SATA vs USB vs hard drive: what real drives actually deliver

Everyone knows NVMe is faster than SATA and SATA is faster than USB. Fewer people know by how much, in a real computer, with a real cable and a real enclosure. Here is the answer from every benchmark DiskBoard users…