Does what it says, but...

Since SSDs have a limited amount of writes in its lifetime, is it really the best idea to run continuous 5GB at a time write tests? Especially when it doesnt tell you when the test is over. I have a 13" Macbook Pro and the application window doesnt even fit vertically on the screen. Not a big deal, but not impressive either.

I dont buy into the whole video benchmarking aspect of this app. Seriously, if your SSD isnt fast enough to buffer video frames to memory during playback, nothing will really help now, will it? I would hate to use a video player app that streams directly/inefficiently from storage anyways. I can see if a video is a couple of hours long and uncompressed, surely its not smart to load the entire thing in memory, but a good video subsystem should buffer enough frames so that storage doesnt have to struggle or that the engine doesnt have to drop so many frames to keep up - or one would sure hope so.

Well other than that the application does what it says. It reports that my speeds are about 100MB slower than my third-party SSD manufacturer has advertised on the box, but I am not surprised that they probably used their best case scenario. At least this benchmark is fairly consistent with the various reviewers of my SSD model, whom have used numerous other synthetic benchmarking applications.

3 stars for confirming that my 3rd party SSD was an excellent purchase.

staeryatz about Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, v2.1