Drive is in the system and running buttery smooth. The Read write sppeds are absolutley insane.
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CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1552.969 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 600.623 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 183.502 MB/s [ 44800.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 164.742 MB/s [ 40220.2 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 1219.624 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 645.326 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 27.616 MB/s [ 6742.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 58.731 MB/s [ 14338.6 IOPS]
Test : 1024 MiB [C: 25.2% (54.3/215.4 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2016/04/13 10:13:36
OS : Windows 7 Professional SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)
As for the install Kingston includes a license for Acronis to clone the drive and it is amazingly easy. THE ONLY CHANGE YOU HAVE TO MAKE IN THE BIOS IS THE BOOT ORDER!!! nothing esle is needed. So this works perfectly!!!