We used CrystalDiskMark 8‘s custom settings to test the Sequential read and write performance of the drive through a range of queue depths. The setup for the tests is listed below.
128KB Sequential Read / Write.
Transfer Request Size: 128KB, Thread(s): 1, Outstanding I/O: 1-32.
At 4,079MB/s, the Sequential read result is a little shy of the official 4,125MB/s but the best write result of 3,344MB/s (QD8) is a tiny bit better than the official 3,325MB/s. The rate of read performance increase slows down by QD8 but rises up a little at QD32. By comparison, the write performance starts to level off at QD4 and stays pretty consistent until the end of the test run at QD32.
128KB Sequential Read v QD compared.
The 2TB P41 Plus seems to perform best at QD4 where it sits mid-table. At all other tested queue depths it's either bottom of the table or very close to it.
128KB Sequential Write v QD compared.
The 2TB P41 Plus sits very firmly in the bottom part of our results charts throughout the tested queue depths.