BIWIN X570 Black Opal Gen5 2TB SSD Review Achieves A World First with DRAMless 14GB/s Speed & 2 Million IOPS

PCMARK 10 FULL SYSTEM STORAGE BENCHMARK

PCMark 10 Storage Benchmarks produce an overall score as a measure of drive performance. Comparing devices is as simple as comparing scores. The tests also measure and report the bandwidth and average access time performance for the drive. Each test uses traces recorded while performing real-world tasks such as booting Windows 10, starting applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, working with applications such as Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, and copying several large files and many small files.

This is not the Top 10 of the results but, as you can see, the BIWIN X570 is placing ahead of Gen4 and right up there with DRAM based Gen5 SSDs

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PCMARK 10 QUICK SYSTEM STORAGE BENCHMARK

The Quick System Drive Benchmark is a subset of the Full test and is more representative of typical daily usage to show what would be expected regarding hybrid SSD performance on a day-to-day basis.

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Once again, the BIWIN X570 Black Opal seems to be that line in the sand between Gen4 and Gen5 SSDs.  Without mention, it blows every other DRAMless SSD ever tested out of the water.

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TRUE DATA TESTING

For our True Data Testing, we simply loaded 15GB video, music, photo and OS files onto the BIWIN X570 DRAMless Gen5 SSD and copied the data to a new folder on that same disk.

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The X570 placed very well once again, right in the area of Gen5 SSDs.

PASSMARK PERFORMANCE TEST

We thought we might add a few extras in our report today, PassMark Performance Test DiskMark component being a nice addition. This software tests sequential reads and writes, along with IOPS and compares the result with millions of other SSDs worldwide.

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For any DRAMless SSD to achieve the top 99% percentile of all SSDs tested to date (as shown above) is absolutely amazing.

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: ENDWALKER BENCHMARK

The Final Fantasy Benchmark is a new tool in our arsenal and geared specifically to the gamer. The software is installed directly on the SSD and the SSD tested, providing and end result of FPS and scene transition times.

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Is the X570 a gaming SSD?  Any SSD that achieves sub six second game load times in this benchmark is a definite gaming SSD candidate.

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3 comments

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    I seem to remember that DRAMLESS SSDs gets significantly slower once filled over 50%. Did you notice anything like that?

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      This theory is not restricted to DRAMless SSDs and not current. Explaining in the most basic of terms, it relates to how information is saved and deleted from pages and blocks as the SSD fills past, for the most part, the 80% mark. Overprovisioning and Garbage Collection which is present in all SSDs counters this. We discuss that in detail in our Beginners article, Trim and Garbage Collection. I would invite you to return with a link if you have found something other than this. We have not, and don’t find it necessary to fill a drive in order to dedtermine if it slows which, actually also brings up another thought which is present in all SSDs, steady state transfer. All SSDs will slow to a certain speed for large transfers; this is inevidable. It is not the result of the drive being half full, and is not restricted to DRAMless SSDs.

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    Dharmpal Rathour

    SSD and Ram required

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