Hello, long time Passmark lurker, first time poster. I recently purchased a Gen4 NVMe drive by XPG (Blade S70 B) , as I was curious of some of the IOPS4KQD1, as there are only a handful of benchmarks that show a steep increase in scores above 300MB/S (I am not sure if it's an average of reading and writing): https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/iops-4kqd1.html
I noticed a few results were excluded, due to anomalies in the number of threads: https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V...d=154379236206 "Baseline has been excluded from average results due to anomalies in the submitted results. [Num CPU Processes - Tested: 16, Expected: 32]"
Tested on April 2nd,
This model appears older than some of the newer versions:
https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/h...0%20BLADE&id=3 3041
The one I tested is a 1TB variant (
AGAMMIXS70B-1T-CS): https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/h...1T-CS&id=30039 (there are multiple 1TB S70 Bs, some which may have been released in 2021). This particular one scores around 112MB/s. I scored 107MB/s, which is a significant boost compared to my older Crucial P2 (around 64MB/s).
Some possible reasons for the higher scores, leads me to think they are running 2 or three drives in RAID 1/0 mode, with up to 4 drives in stripe+redundancy.
Another is RAMDisk, by DataRAM, which I noticed may be a possible boost- one score showed a crystal mark score in the 300MB/s range, although I assume Passmark would detect that.
Some drives that also got unusually high scores appear to be HDDs (an 8TB drive with 256MB of cache): https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V...d=178381442924 524MB/s There are only 9 total samples, and 4 of the most recent 5 are from the same system.
While IOPS4KQD1 isn't everything for performance, I am curious if there is something else at play here.
I've also seen some benchmarks get over 800MB/s.
This Seagate gets anywhere between 143MB/s and 581MB/s: https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V...d=183151161321
Without spending a fortune on an Optane drive (which actually seem to get above 300MB/s without using RAID), it seems like the PS5 drives seem to be a great boost for IOPS4KQD1 without breaking the bank. The boost from 112MB/S 144MB/s is also quite impressive, and doesn't require a Gen5 PCI-e, since the bottleneck is unaffected for 4KQD1, as all are well under 3.9GB/s.
Thoughts?
I noticed a few results were excluded, due to anomalies in the number of threads: https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V...d=154379236206 "Baseline has been excluded from average results due to anomalies in the submitted results. [Num CPU Processes - Tested: 16, Expected: 32]"
Tested on April 2nd,
This model appears older than some of the newer versions:
https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/h...0%20BLADE&id=3 3041
The one I tested is a 1TB variant (
AGAMMIXS70B-1T-CS): https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/h...1T-CS&id=30039 (there are multiple 1TB S70 Bs, some which may have been released in 2021). This particular one scores around 112MB/s. I scored 107MB/s, which is a significant boost compared to my older Crucial P2 (around 64MB/s).
Some possible reasons for the higher scores, leads me to think they are running 2 or three drives in RAID 1/0 mode, with up to 4 drives in stripe+redundancy.
Another is RAMDisk, by DataRAM, which I noticed may be a possible boost- one score showed a crystal mark score in the 300MB/s range, although I assume Passmark would detect that.
Some drives that also got unusually high scores appear to be HDDs (an 8TB drive with 256MB of cache): https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V...d=178381442924 524MB/s There are only 9 total samples, and 4 of the most recent 5 are from the same system.
While IOPS4KQD1 isn't everything for performance, I am curious if there is something else at play here.
I've also seen some benchmarks get over 800MB/s.
This Seagate gets anywhere between 143MB/s and 581MB/s: https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V...d=183151161321
Without spending a fortune on an Optane drive (which actually seem to get above 300MB/s without using RAID), it seems like the PS5 drives seem to be a great boost for IOPS4KQD1 without breaking the bank. The boost from 112MB/S 144MB/s is also quite impressive, and doesn't require a Gen5 PCI-e, since the bottleneck is unaffected for 4KQD1, as all are well under 3.9GB/s.
Thoughts?
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