Parsec, you sir, are a good man.
I really just wanted to say it once but I’ve read several reviews on Anandtech and their fill test is different. they tends to seperate reads and write or percentage of read and writes, but the amount of files written to it, only around 10-20 gb? this may have larger effects on smaller drives ie 64/128 gb SSD but not so much on the 256 version.
imo what Chris and Jon are doing they literally have the drive filled up 25 50 and to 75% and then run vantage on all situaion, as explained in the article. compressed or incompressed, this is probably by far the most accurate way of doing it.
