22Test Setup
| Test System SSD 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Processor: | Intel Core i9-13900KS Raptor Lake 6.0 GHz, 8+16 cores / 32 threads |
| Motherboard: | ASUS ROG Z790 Dark Hero BIOS 1102 |
| Memory: | 2x 16 GB DDR5-6000 |
| Graphics: | PNY GeForce RTX 4080 Super Verto OC |
| Cooling: | Valkyrie Syn 360 mm AIO |
| Thermal Paste: | Arctic MX-6 |
| Power Supply: | Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 850 W ATX 3.0 / 16-pin 12VHPWR |
| Case: | darkFlash DRX70 White |
| Operating System: | Windows 11 Professional 64-bit 23H2 VBS enabled (Windows 11 default) |
| Drivers: | NVIDIA: 552.12 WHQL |
Synthetic Testing
- Tests are run with a 20-second-long warm-up time (result recording starts at second 21).
- Between each test, the drive is left idle for 60 seconds, to allow it to flush and reorganize its internal data.
- All write requests contain random, incompressible data.
- Disk cache is flushed between all tests.
- During these tests, M.2 drives are tested with additional active fan-cooling, to ensure thermal throttling can't happen
Real-life Testing
- After initial configuration and installation, a disk image is created; it is used to test every drive.
- Automated updates are disabled for the OS and all programs. This ensures that—for every review—each drive uses the same settings, without interference from previous testing.
- Our disk image consumes around 700 GB—partitions are resized to fill all available space on the drive.
- All drives are filled with random data to 85% of their capacity. This is intentional, to run the drive in realistic operating conditions—nobody uses a nearly-empty SSD in their system. It also puts additional stress on the pseudo-SLC cache subsystem, because there is less free NAND space to work with.
- Partitions are aligned properly.
- Disk cache is flushed between all tests.
- In order to minimize random variation, each real-life performance test is run several times, with reboots between tests to minimize the impact of disk cache.
- All application benchmarks run the actual application and do not replay any disk traces.
- Our real-life testing data includes performance numbers for a typical high-performance HDD, using results from a Western Digital WD Black 1 TB 7200 RPM 3.5" SATA. HDDs are significantly slower than SSDs, which is why we're not putting the result in the chart, as that would break the scaling, making the SSDs indistinguishable in comparison. Instead, we've added the HDD performance numbers in the title of each test entry.
- During these tests, M.2 drives are tested with additional active fan-cooling, to ensure thermal throttling can't happen
Comparison Drives
We compare the tested drive to a wide selection of SSDs currently available on the market. Besides popular drives, our focus is also on including common controller and flash type combinations.
| Controller | Channels | Flash | DRAM | Interface | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADATA SX8200 Pro 1 TB | Silicon Motion SM2262ENG | 8 | TLC / Micron | Yes | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Corsair MP400 2 TB | Phison E12S | 8 | QLC / Micron | Yes | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Corsair MP600 Elite 2 TB | Phison E27 | 4 | TLC / Toshiba | No | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Corsair MP700 Pro 2 TB | Phison E26 | 8 | TLC / Micron | Yes | PCIe 5.0 x4 |
| Crucial BX500 1 TB | Silicon Motion SM2258XT | 4 | TLC / Micron | No | SATA |
| Crucial MX500 1 TB | Silicon Motion SM2258H | 4 | TLC / Micron | Yes | SATA |
| Crucial P1 1 TB | Silicon Motion SM2263ENG | 8 | QLC / Micron | Yes | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Crucial P5 1 TB | Micron DM01B2 | 8 | TLC / Micron | Yes | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Crucial P5 Plus 1 TB | Micron DM02A1 | 8 | TLC / Micron | Yes | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Hynix Gold P31 2 TB | Hynix ACNT038 | 8 | TLC / Hynix | Yes | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Kingston KC3000 2 TB | Phison E18 | 8 | TLC / Micron | Yes | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Kingston NV2 1 TB | Phison E21 | 4 | TLC / Toshiba | No | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Lexar NM710 2 2 TB | Maxiotech MAP1602A | 4 | TLC / YMTC | No | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Lexar NM790 2 2 TB | Maxiotech MAP1602A | 4 | TLC / YMTC | No | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| MSI Spatium M450 1 TB | Phison E19 | 4 | TLC / Micron | No | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Neo Forza NFP495 2 TB | TenaFE TC2201 | 4 | TLC / YMTC | No | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB | Samsung MJX | 8 | TLC / Samsung | Yes | SATA |
| Samsung 870 QVO 1 TB | Samsung MKX | 8 | QLC / Samsung | Yes | SATA |
| Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB | Samsung Phoenix | 8 | TLC / Samsung | Yes | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Samsung 980 1 TB | Samsung Pablo | 8 | TLC / Samsung | Yes | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB | Samsung Elpis | 8 | TLC / Samsung | Yes | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB | Samsung Pascal | 8 | TLC / Samsung | Yes | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Seagate Barracuda 120 1 TB | Phison S12 | 8 | TLC / Intel | Yes | SATA |
| Seagate FireCuda 510 1 TB | Phison E12 | 8 | TLC / Toshiba | Yes | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Solidigm P44 Pro 2 TB | SK hynix ACNS075 | 8 | TLC / Hynix | Yes | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| WD Black SN770 1 TB | SanDisk 20-82-10081 | 4 | TLC / SanDisk | No | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| WD Black SN850 1 TB | SanDisk 20-82-10035 | 8 | TLC / SanDisk | Yes | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| WD Blue SN570 1 TB | SanDisk 20-82-10023 | 4 | TLC / SanDisk | No | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| WD Blue SN580 1 TB | SanDisk 20-82-10082 | 4 | TLC / SanDisk | No | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| XPG Atom 50 2 TB | Innogrit IG5220 | 4 | TLC / Micron | No | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| XPG Gammix S70 Blade 2 TB | Innogrit IG5236 | 8 | TLC / Micron | Yes | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
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