Comments on: Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review This is FAST

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:44:02 +0000

As a relatively new reader I am wondering why all the focus is on sequential read and write results? My understanding is that random read and access time is crucial to how fast a drive will perform and feel in daily use, so it would be nice to see those numbers compared in a graph. The instances where you’d be writing to the drive at 7+GBps in every day use would be small, while you will always be doing random reads and writes for booting, opening apps, saving documents, etc.

By: Darkendvoid

Darkendvoid — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:32:56 +0000

Not sure why we’re surprised that 3 year old technology that was top of it’s game is still top of it’s game with minor incremental improvements.

By: yeeter

yeeter — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 21:47:12 +0000

Guru3d 17 or 18 pages for a m2 SSD? WTAF. That’s abusing readers

I think STH should be 2, but i get the breakdown of 3.

By: Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 21:04:42 +0000

In reply to Michael J. Ryan. Michael - That is, like this one, due to us having tested a different capacity 980 Pro. Will actually has the 1TB 980 Pro already done and that will be the next in his series likely next weekend.

By: Michael J. Ryan

Michael J. Ryan — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:53:45 +0000

Nice review. Slightly surprised that the Samsung 980 Pro series isn’t on the benchmark list for gen4 drives.

By: Will Taillac

Will Taillac — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 15:47:39 +0000

Rodigas, STH definitely uses different testing methodology here than Guru3D. I use 10 separate running instances of an external utility to generate and write random data comprising 85% the capacity of the drive – so about 850GB in the case of a 1TB drive. This is done at the beginning of benchmarking when the drive is blank except for the copy of Windows and various benchmarks that are installed. I then monitor both drive temperature and write speed near the end of that process to see what it settled at. If the drive begins throttle during the test, or just starts to get uncomfortably warm, I reset the drive and perform the test again with a heatsink and airflow.

With that said, it is hard to truly understand what is happening over on Guru3D because parts of their review are self contradictory. As an example, they list the test environment and equipment as using a Ryzen 9 5950X-based platform, but their Anvil results are obviously taken with an Intel i9-12900K system. They also do not test with their drive set as the boot drive and many of their benchmarks are done with the drive essentially empty. And I have no clue when during their testing they perform this test; if they do the full-disk write at the end of their testing, they might be running into other issues if their drive has not TRIM’d. Their hardware is different, OS is different, and testing is different, so I am not surprised we are running into differences.