Test Bench
For our tests, we used our latest test rig, which is comprised of the following components.
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 3700X @ 3.6GHz (Boost 4.4GHz) |
| Cooling | Noctua NH-U9S cooler |
| Motherboard | ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming ITX/TB3 |
| Ram | 16GB GEIL Super Luce DDR4-3600MHz |
| PSU | Cooler Master V850 – 850W PSU |
| GPU | Zotac GeForce GTX 2080 AMP Extreme Core (8GB GDDR6) |
| SSD |
BIOSTAR S120 256GB SATA SSD |
AIDA64 Disk Information
CrystalDiskMark
The CrystalDiskMark results show the read performance of the S120 around about 534Mb/s, which is pretty good. But write performance was a little disappointing with speeds of only 486MB/s. It’s not the advertised 550Mb/s read or 520Mb/s write, as per BIOSTAR described.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
For ATTO … the read performance of the S120 was acceptable at around 527Mb/s … but for write speed however, it’s still below the 520Mb/s (advertised) … at only 485Mb/s.
Anvil Storage
IOPS for the S120 hit 53,789 for the 4KQD16 test. Again it fell short, this time by a long way from the advertised 100,000 IOPS. Overall score was 3,742.34.
