Solidigm P44 Pro 1TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Solidigm P44 Pro 1TB3. 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. Solidigm Storage Driver18. Real Life File Testing19. Closing Thoughts20. View All Pages

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

The P44 Pro performs well in CrystalDiskMark's 4K QD1 (single thread) test. With a read score of 87.65MB/s, it sits just behind WD's Black SN850 at the top of the results chart, but with a better write result than the WD drive.

Looking at the benchmark result screens we can confirm the official Sequential figures for the drive of 7,000MB/s and 6,500MB/s for reads and writes respectively with a best-read result of 7,403MB/s (0 fill) while the fastest write speed we saw was 6,603MB/s (0 fill).

Peak Performance Profile

Switching over to the Performance Profile we could once again confirm the official Sequential read/write figures with test results of 7,385MB/s for reads and 6,570MB/s for writes which are good enough to put the drive at the head of our results chart.

The Performance Profile result screen also includes a 4K IOPS score. The Solidigm P44 Pro produced test results of 648,842.29 IOPS for reads and 545,564.21 IOPS, way off of the official 1,400,000 IOPS / 1,300,000 IOPS (reads/writes) but still good enough to put the drive into third place in our results chart.

Real World Profile

The drive doesn't perform quite so well in the Real World profile. Test results of 3,359MB/s and for reads 3.0003MB/s and writes respectively were only good enough to see the drive in a mid-table position.

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