Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK Motherboard Review

SATA III 6Gbps Performance

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.4 x64

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.4 is a good benchmark to gauge how well a drive will perform. Many of the drive manufacturers have used this benchmark to show off the performance of their drives. It provides a quick benchmark of Sequential and Random read/writes, and included a NCQ with a queue depth of 32.

The Kingston publishes an “up to” 555MB/s read speed and 510MB/s write speed. Of course those of us used to seeing how drives actually perform don’t always expect to see those numbers just something close to it.

Benchmark Results: The Read speed on this one test for the Z97X-UD3H-BK came in around 3% slower than the other Z97 systems, and around 1.5% slower for the write test. While the test is run multiple times, the results can vary a little between each run. For the big picture, the SATA speed on this motherboard isn’t anything to be concerned with, it performs rather well.