Gigabyte AORUS RAID SSD 2TB Review

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte AORUS RAID 2TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. IOMETER8. 128KB Sequential Read / Write.9. 4K Sustained Random Read 10. 4K Sustained Random Write11. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance12. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. Performance Stability15. Real Life File Testing16. Closing Thoughts17. View All Pages

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 drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.

We use the following folder/file types:

• 100GB data file.
• 60GB iso image.
• 60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
• 50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
• 12GB Movie folder – (15 files – 8 @ .MKV, 4 @ .MOV, 3 @ MP4).
• 10GB Photo folder – (304 files – 171 @ .RAW, 105 @ JPG, 21 @ .CR2, 5 @ .DNG).
• 10GB Audio folder – (1,483 files – 1479 @ MP3, 4 @ .FLAC files).
• 5GB (1.5bn pixel) photo.
• BluRay Movie – 42GB.
• 21GB 8K Movie demos – (11 demos)
• 16GB 4K Raw Movie Clips – (9 MP4V files).
• 4.25GB 3D Printer File Folder – (166 files – 105 @ .STL, 38 @ .FBX, 11 @ .blend, 5 @ .lwo, 4 @ .OBJ, 3@ .3ds).
• 1.5GB AutoCAD File Folder (80 files – 60 @ .DWG and 20 @.DXF).

Gigabyte's AORUS RAID SSD displayed a very good consistency of performance for both reads and writes when dealing with the larger file sizes in our file transfer tests averaging 513MB/s writing to the drive and 443MB/s reading the data back for the seven largest file transfers.

To get a measure of how much faster PCIe NVMe drives are than standard SATA SSD's we use the same files but transfer to and from a 512GB Toshiba OCZ RD400:

When transferring files to and from another NVMe drive, the AORUS RAID SSD showed just how fast it can be with ten of the thirteen tests producing a write figure over 2GB/s with seven over 2.5GB/s.

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