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To test the real-life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of the drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.
We test the following folder/file types:
100GB data file.
60GB iso image.
60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
21GB 8K Movie demos.
12GB Movie folder – 24 files (mix of Blu-ray and 4K files).
11GB 4K Raw Movie Clips (8 MP4V files).
10GB Photo folder – 621 files (mix of png, raw and jpeg images).
10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files (mix of mp3 and .flac files).
5GB (1.5bn pixel) photo.
Blu-ray movie.
The MP600 GS handled our real-life file transfers pretty well, particularly when dealing with the larger file size transfers, averaging 544MB/s for writes and 461MB/s for reads when dealing with these file types.
To get a measure of how much faster PCIe NVMe drives are than standard SATA SSD we use the same files but transfer to and from a 2TB Kioxia Exceria Plus drive:
Writing to and reading from an NVMe drive saw transfer speeds rocket and overall transfer times dropped dramatically as you might expect. Six of the transfers topped over 3GB/s when writing to the drive. Of the remaining seven tests, five topped 2GB/s. Fastest write speed came from the 100GB data file at 3,101MB/s while the slowest was, as usual, the 50GB file folder at 602MB/s. While the 100GB data file gave the fastest write speed, the drive did seem to have a bit of a struggle when reading the data back.
