QOTW: How fast is the storage in your PC?

[Usernamist]

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CrystalDiskMark 6.0.1 x64 (UWP) (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 729.354 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 631.730 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 207.329 MB/s [ 50617.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 110.790 MB/s [ 27048.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 130.720 MB/s [ 31914.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 92.429 MB/s [ 22565.7 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 21.464 MB/s [ 5240.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 76.719 MB/s [ 18730.2 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [C: 66.7% (78.8/118.2 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2019/03/23 1:18:19
OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 17763] (x64)

[Korrorra]

SAMSUNG 840 PRO 256GB - I've been thinking of switching to NVMe
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CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 557.219 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 526.088 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 396.318 MB/s [ 96757.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 369.217 MB/s [ 90140.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 172.627 MB/s [ 42145.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 141.796 MB/s [ 34618.2 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 32.771 MB/s [ 8000.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 80.309 MB/s [ 19606.7 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [C: 21.7% (51.6/237.9 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2019/03/22 21:21:30
OS : Windows 10 Pro [10.0 Build 17763] (x64)

[Goodman2576]

Good old Samsung SSD840 120GB SATA3 MZ-7TD120BW
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CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 415.545 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 125.272 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 348.267 MB/s [ 85026.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 97.634 MB/s [ 23836.4 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 314.163 MB/s [ 76700.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 88.225 MB/s [ 21539.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 31.729 MB/s [ 7746.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 88.573 MB/s [ 21624.3 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [C: 90.9% (100.5/110.5 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2019/03/23 8:19:36
OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 17763] (x64)

[Iota]

Iota is in the lead with his 970 Evo Plus 1TB

If I'd built the PC I was really thinking about it would have been NVMe drives in Raid 0

[cronicash]

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CrystalDiskMark 5.5.0 x64 (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo

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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 9693.115 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 9985.953 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1326.341 MB/s [323813.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1323.056 MB/s [323011.7 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 8070.844 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 7515.953 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 482.594 MB/s [117820.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 406.374 MB/s [ 99212.4 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [C: 11.2% (155.9/1395.1 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2019/03/23 21:22:16
OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 17763] (x64)

few m.2s on a zenith amd mobo

[OilSheikh]

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CrystalDiskMark 5.5.0 x64 (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo

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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 9693.115 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 9985.953 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1326.341 MB/s [323813.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1323.056 MB/s [323011.7 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 8070.844 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 7515.953 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 482.594 MB/s [117820.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 406.374 MB/s [ 99212.4 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [C: 11.2% (155.9/1395.1 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2019/03/23 21:22:16
OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 17763] (x64)

few m.2s on a zenith amd mobo

What the ...
How's that possible ? Regular M2 NVME SSD on a Zenith mobo generates that much speed ?

[Troopa]

how sad is this qotw

[aidanjt]

What the ...
How's that possible ? Regular M2 NVME SSD on a Zenith mobo generates that much speed ?

I'm guessing RAID0...

Threadripper has PCIe lanes out the wazoo.

[aidanjt]

<-- My own CDM result:

[wayn3h]

This is my 960 EVO 250GB as a boot drive and I noticed a decent improvement to windows responsiveness when I made this upgrade last year.

I also have Sandisk Ultra II 960 (x2 RAID 0) and the performance is pretty terrible going by the banchmarks though its more than good enough for my Steam library. I think for gaming you are hitting diminishing returns by moving up to NVME.
This is the second RAID0 I've tried with this model as the original ones I bought both failed within a week of each other and had to be RMA'd... So yea I'm not expecting much and am not putting any mission critical data on them! These are purely for gaming or for when working on projects before archiving them.


I'm no power user by any means (I mostly game but use blender+premiere) so supplementing this with some good old fashioned mechanical storage suits me fine. There isn't really anything that I do that makes me think I wish my hard drives were faster. So yea, don't really see me upgrading in the next year or two.

[Iota]

What the ...
How's that possible ? Regular M2 NVME SSD on a Zenith mobo generates that much speed ?

3 NVMe drives in Raid 0 at a wild guess.

If money had not been a consideration in my build I would have gone with this - https://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards...XIMUS-XI-GENE/ as well as 4 NVMe drives.

[eviling]

I have a Samsung 840 Evo. Had to update its firmware once, cause it got slow, since then havent had any issues.

I never feel like i have to wait for stuff to load.

[cronicash]

3 NVMe drives in Raid 0 at a wild guess.

If money had not been a consideration in my build I would have gone with this - ROG-MAXIMUS-XI-GENE as well as 4 NVMe drives.

Your right about the 3x NVMe raid 0 etc.

If money weren't the issue id be rocking asus dominus

[Lord Midas]

I've got a 1TB Samsung 970 Evo. Got the same scores as the rest above. It's bloody aces.
Also got a 2TB Intel 660p. About half as fast. Great for my Steam folder

[BICEP]

850evo raid0

Samsung 256GB SM961

[atomicWAR]

My Os drive attached via Angelbird PCIEe addin card for lack of native support on my motherboard and better cooling

Samsung 850 Evo, game and application drive

Samasung 840, game and application drive

3x8TB + 1x12TB Seagate Iron Wolf drives for bulk data in a windows drive pool

Seagate SSHD, game and application drive *note transfers using the 8GB of onboard SSD cache hits 360MB/s which the benches do not show