WD Blue SN580 1TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. WD Blue SN580 1TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Sustained Random Read 9. 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 Benchmark15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Drive Temperatures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

AS SSD is a great free tool designed just for benching Solid State Drives. It performs an array of sequential read-and-write tests, as well as random read-and-write tests with sequential access times over a portion of the drive. It uses
incompressible data samples which many drives struggle with, so results can be viewed as the worst-case scenarios.

AS SSD includes a sub suite of benchmarks with various file pattern algorithms but this is difficult in trying to judge accurate performance figures.

Although the read score of 2346 in the AS SSD benchmark sees the SN580 near the bottom of the results chart, its write result of 2735 is pretty strong. Both scores are an improvement over the previous generation SN570 which scored 1539 and 2330 for reads and writes respectively.

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