- Performance - Page 1

The drive is brand new and has the latest firmware installed. Let’s start our tests. The advertised reading/writing speeds are around 6.6GB/sec and 5.0GB/sec respectively. At this review we will examine what users should expect from this high end NVME drive.

In order to test the NVME drive r we used the following configuration:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
• Thermal compound: bequiet! DC1
• Case: bequiet! Silent Base 802
• Case fans: 2x140 bequiet! Silent Wings 3 High-Speed RPM speed controllable via SmartFan BIOS + Asus Xpert4 software
• CPU Fan: Stock 2x120mm Noctua
• Motherboard: Asus X570 E-Gaming with 4021 BIOS
• Memory: 2x16GB G.skill Trident Z RGB CL14 @ 3200MHz CL14 (XMP Profile) @ 1.35V
• PSU: be quiet! Straight Power 11 650Watt
• HDD: Crucial MX500 SSD
• VGA: Asus 1060 6GB Dual
• Operating system: Windows 10 x64 with all the latest updates installed
• Samsung NVME Drives: Full Performance under Samsung Magician Software + Overposition 10%

Our first test came with the ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.41, which showed a rather strange behavior. After the 128kb the drive drops performance.

The newer ATTO Disk Benchmark 4.01.0f1 gave better results, even it didn't reached the max advertised speeds.

At this point we noticed the drive even was under passive cooling was reaching high internal temperatures up to 67 Celsius under heavy loads, without drop in performance however.

Measuring the overall heating performance we saw at other tests from 47 ~ 64 Celsius which mean you need to have passive heatsink at the P5 Plus drive to ensure its best running performance.

More synthetics benchmarks are listed below