While this drive is rated for up to 14,700/14,000MB/s, that would make it surprisingly beyond anything else we’ve tested. However, at around 12,000/13,000 it still is absolutely one of the best we’ve ever tested, and most certainly deserves to be called extremely fast. I’m sure on a good day, in the right scenario, with the right CPU and motherboard combo, it could push even higher.
IOPS are excellent throughout, with a strong result in SEQ1M and nicely about the 250K we usually like to see in RND4K.
The drive gets up to speed pretty quickly as block size increases, with the read and write speeds largely consistent from 512KB and above.
Scoring over 31K, and closer to 32K in Anvil is impressive, and again, one of the highest scores we’ve ever seen here at eTeknix. The IOPS are also very high, maxing out at 350K on the read and 667K on write, depending on the test.
Moving a folder with lots of small files totalling 64MB, the test was completed in just 346ms, so practically instantaneous when dealing with smaller files.
As we move up to a 50GB folder comprising 6 files, the test took just 22440ms, and moving 50GB in 22 seconds is obviously extremely fast, and bodes well for those moving large assets, backing up files, or transferring game installations.
While the results here largely just confirm what we already know, the key takeaway is the access time, at just 0.01ms, the drive is incredibly responsive, enhanced by its high-performance controller and the DRAM cache.
For daily usage, loading games, programs, or ISOs is incredibly fast. So tasks like opening documents, opening zip files, etc, are going to be virtually instantaneous so long as they’re not held up by other components such as the RAM or CPU you’re using.
When it comes to compressible data, the drive excels again, and while there’s a dip at 0% and 100% compressable data, these seem more like a testing error due to the drives speed, as its otherwise one of the fasterest and most consistent results I’ve ever seen.
When it comes to using the drive to capture 5K 10-bit uncompressed video, the drive scores extremely high, and could easily deal with multiple real-time captures and playbacks simultaneously.
A fast drive can easily score anywhere from 15-20 seconds, a very fast, around 12 second, but at around 10 seconds, it’s no wonder this drive ranks “extremely high”, making it a fantastic choice for playing games that have lots of large assets to load.
Best of all, the drive runs extremely cool. I remember first-generation Gen5 drives were a struggle to keep under 100c, and yet this one just cruises along at under 50c, despite us running our string of benchmarks over and over. Fast, cool, responsive, this drive is getting a huge thumbs up from me!
