Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 10000 2TB SSD

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 10000 2TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Temperatures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure the theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSDs. We are using v8.0.

In CrystalDiskMark 8's 4K QD1 T1 test, the Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 10000 sits in third place in our results table when it comes to reads with its test result of 85.28MB/s. Its write result of 328.73MB/s however, is by far the fastest we've seen to date for a consumer drive.

As can be seen from the benchmark result screens we can confirm the official Sequential read/write figures of 10,000MB/s and 9,500MB/s respectively with test result figures of 10,087MB/s for reads and 10,216MB/s for writes.

Using the Peak Performance profile of the CrystalDiskMark benchmark we could once again confirm the official Sequential read figure of 10,000 MB/s and bettered the official write figure by some 706MB/s.

We couldn't find any random performance figures for the drive on Gigabyte's specification sheet for the drive, but Phison rates the random 4K performance of the PS5026-E26 controller as up to 1,500K IOPS for reads and 2,000K IOPS for writes. We could confirm the official read figure with a test result of 1,494K IOPS while the write result of 1,733K IOPS is a little short of the official maximum.

Using the Real World profile the drive produced Sequential read/write figures of 8,564MB/s and 10,043MB/s respectively, well short of the official maximum for reads (10,000 MB/s) but on the mark when it came to writes (9,500MB/s).

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