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To test 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.
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).
When transferring data to and from the Arion S500 to a SATA drive the drive averaged 421MB/s for writing the contents of the thirteen file transfers, with the fastest being the 5GB image (529MB/s), the slowest the 50GB file folder (219MB/s). When reading the data back, the drive averaged 233MB/s, this time the fastest transfer was the AutoCAD file folder at 449MB/s with the 50GB file folder again being the slowest at 152MB/s.
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.
Transferring files between the Arion S500 and an M.2 NVMe drive we got an idea of the true potential of the Asus drive as transfer speeds rocketed. Write speeds averaged 793MB/s for the thirteen transfers with the average read speed coming in at 720MB/s.
