Performance
Performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform, which contains the Ryzen 9 7950X CPU, Gigabyte B650E Master motherboard, Kingston Renegade RGB 96GB DDR5-6400 CL32 memory kit, and ASUS Dual EVO RTX4070 Super graphics card.
All tests were performed in a Windows 11 Pro x64 environment with the latest updates.
As usual, in my storage reviews, I will start with the ATTO Disk Benchmark. It’s one of the most popular storage benchmarks, and results are easy to compare at home.
Our results are not as high as we wish, but this benchmark always shows lower-than-expected bandwidth. The read is up to 6.82GB/s, and the write is up to 5.57GB/s. Both results are pretty high.
The CrystalDiskMark results are already better than expected, with 7283MB/s sequential read and 6330MB/s sequential write. It is worth mentioning that reading and writing could also reach high IOPS, even up to 1M. Most DRAM-less SSDs can’t make much more than 700K.
UL benchmarks also show above-average results for DRAM-less SSDs. PCMark 10 scores are high even for some higher-shelf SSDs with DRAM.
The 3DMark Storage Benchmark score is closer to what we could see on competitive SSDs like Patriot VP4300 Lite. It’s still a quite high score.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is an older benchmark but still popular, so why not use it?
Results in this benchmark are high, just not as high as declared in the SSD specification. It’s not a problem, as every benchmark uses a different test pattern and test files.
The Blackmagic benchmark shows above-average results. We wish to see higher numbers, which is normal for this benchmark. Everything passes smoothly.
The last test is AIDA64, which is quite demanding but shows us if the SSD has no problems with throttling during extended operations.
Random read and write results are lower than expected. The Acer MA200 SSD reviewed a few days ago performed better in this test. I would count on closer to 2200-2300MB/s average
The FA200 2TB SSD performs great in all our tests, except for the AIDA64, which still shows high results but not as high as we wish to see. The FA200 is still a great option for all users, including gamers.
