How fast are these SSDs? PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive Performance Reviews

How fast are these SSDs? PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive Performance Reviews

The market is flooded with SSD products of various brands, performance and capacity, however, there are some discrepancies between the advertised speed and the actual speed of many brands. Therefore, we selected a group of NVMe M.2 SSDs of different brands and models, initialized them with a Secure Erase mode, and then connected them to the motherboard for a real test to provide you with an objective reference.

Tested with
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor 3.6GHz
Motherboard: MSI X570-A PRO (MS-7C37)
Memory: 16GB
System Disk: WD SN520 512GB
Operating System: Window 10

1. GIGABYTE AORUS 7000s 1TB Gen4x4 PCIe SSD (GP-AG70S1TB)

Specification: M.2 2280
Interface: PCI-Express 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.4
Capacity: 1TB
Official sequential read speed: up to 7000 MB/s
Official sequential write speed: up to 5500 MB/s
Other design: 7mm aluminum heat sink and backplate with high thermal conductivity heat sink

Test Software: CrystalDiskMark

The AORUS 7000s 1TB Gen4x4 PCIe SSD was tested with CrystalDiskMark in random mode, yielding 6339.33MB/s read and 5600.87MB/s write.

2. WD Black SN750 SE 1TB M.2 2280 Gen4 PCIe SSD

Specification: M.2 2280
Interface: PCIe4.0 x4 (backwards compatible with PCIe3.0/PCIe2.0)
Capacity: 1TB
Official sequential read speed: 3600 MB/s
Official sequential write speed: 2000 MB/s

Test Software: CrystalDiskMark

Tested with CrystalDiskMark in random mode. The result was 3617.07MB/s for read and 2874.70MB/s for write.

3. WD Black SN850 2TB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD

Specification: M.2 2280
Interface: PCIe4.0 x4
Capacity: 2TB
Official sequential read speed: 7000MB/s
Official sequential write speed: 5100MB/s

Test Software: CrystalDiskMark

Tested with CrystalDiskMark in random mode. The result was 6294.94 MB/s for read and 5336.11 MB/s for write.

4. WD BLACK SN770 NVMe SSD

Specification: M.2 2280
Interface: PCIe Gen4 x4
Capacity: 1TB
Official sequential read speed: 5150MB/s
Official sequential write speed: 4900MB/s

Test Software: CrystalDiskMark

Tested with CrystalDiskMark in random mode, yielding 5222.35MB/s read and 4980.80MB/s write.

5. SAMSUNG 980 PRO 1TB NVMe M.2 2280 PCIe MZ-V8P1T0BW

Specification: M.2 2280
Interface: PCIe Gen 4.0 x4
Capacity: 1TB
Official sequential read speed: 7000MB/s
Official sequential write speed: 5000MB/s

Test Software: CrystalDiskMark

Tested with CrystalDiskMark in random mode. The result was 6567.18MB/s for read and 4868.80MB/s for write.

6. ADATA XPG SX6000 Lite 256GB M.2 2280 PCIe SSD

Specification: M.2 2280
Interface: PCle Gen3x4
Capacity: 256GB
Official sequential read speed: 1800 MB/s
Official continuous write speed: 900 MB/s

Test Software: CrystalDiskMark

Tested with CrystalDiskMark in random mode. The result was 1868.40MB/s for read and 861.92MB/s for write.


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