Performance Focus – SBX 1TB
I'm sticking with the 'burst vs. saturated' plots here, as they do well to show both sustained performance and the more realistic (for client PC usage) burst throughputs. Caching SSDs turn in vastly different results for the two methods, especially for writes, as shown below.
Sequential
Random
Burst Random %Read Sweep
Caching
Caching performance seemed a bit inconsistent on repeated runs of the 1TB model. Cache size appeared to be ~5GB, but there are enough parallel dies at this capacity that TLC speed does not suffer that greatly. SInce the first cache run was a bit jumpy, here's the full sequence. Things cleared up a bit after that first pass:
“The SBX uses the Phison
“The SBX uses the Phison PS5008-E8 controller, not the PS5008-E8T (dramless), so we find NANYA / Micron flash accompanying the controller on each part.”
Is this supposed to be NANYA / Micron DRAM?
LOL yup. Fixed, thanks!
LOL yup. Fixed, thanks!
I have a bpx… I would have
I have a bpx… I would have sent it back compared to my samsung ssd if i needed the money. Building a PC, sure buy this. Upgrading, anything less than a 1TB just doesn’t seem to add much value. About the only thing it does noticeably faster is unrar. At least with 1TB, you could put a few games on it since games are now 100GB each.
anyways, nice review.
Great in depth review.
Great in depth review. Thanks for bringing new products like this to us. I am definitely interest in getting a 500 or 1 TB for my next build.
I’m still using spinning
I’m still using spinning rust, and I can multitask while the lappy boots up by gettng my coffee ready during the process. Whenever they decide to make a 500GB SSD/1TB hard-drive hybrid drive I’ll become interested. I still like laptops that come with CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives as that can be swapped out for a hard/SSD drive caddy also.
Is MyDigital a Chinese firm?
Is MyDigital a Chinese firm? Where would you have to send their products for RMA if worst were to happen?
Their website shows their
Their website shows their location as in Oswego, NY, and they have a US toll free number for customer service.
i still rather get something
i still rather get something from westerndigital. at least i know t hey stand behind their stuff.
How would performance be
How would performance be affected on a system with PCIe 2.0? I appreciate the power efficiency and cost saving of using PCIe 3.0 (2x), but I’m considering using one of these drives to update an older system that only has PCIe 2.0. I’d be using an m.2 to PCIe adapter. It would be going into a 16x slot running 8x,but as far as I can tell, it will run at 2x speed, which tops out well below the speed of this drive. A drive with 4x should still have plenty of overhead, even at PCIe 2.0 speeds.