Performance
Performance has been tested on the AMD Threadripper platform which contains the TR4 1920X processor, ASRock X399M Taichi motherboard and 64GB of DDR4-3000 Ballistix Elite RAM.
All tests were performed in Windows 10 environment and can be compared to any home PC. Most benchmarks are available for free. Exception is PCMark 8.
Let’s begin with CrystalDiskMark which is probably the most popular storage benchmark right now and also one of the best for home and office computers.
Crucial P1 SSD performs as declared regardless of the test. All test files are giving us 2GB/s read and 1.7GB/s write. It’s pretty good as not all competitive drives can keep the same performance using larger test files.
What is worth to mention is random performance. All tests are showing us pretty good numbers. We have to remember that AMD controllers are performing worse than Intel while here most results are as good as on Intel platforms.
The only thing which I wish to see higher is 4KiB Q1T1 read. On Intel Coffee Lake platform we can count on about 50MB/s what is a really good result, comparable to most fastest NVMe SSD. It’s still not as fast as top drives but we have to remember that the P1 is also much cheaper.
Results in ATTO Disk Benchmark are as high as expected so about 2GB/s read and 1.7GB/s write. The P1 keeps optimal performance in everything we test. Also results in deeper queue operations are pretty good. In IOPS tests we can compare the performance to more expensive NVMe SSD series.
For me the most important is how drives work in a typical, daily workload. We can test them in synthetic benchmarks but it won’t tell us if performance in our most common used applications is good enough. PCMark 8 maybe won’t show us that too but it’s based on popular programs and less demanding games so it’s close to what we can see on our daily PC.
The P1 NVMe SSD achieved one of the best results we had a chance to see in our redaction. Even though some competitive drives are rated at up to 3.5GB/s, average performance in mixed workload is as good on the P1 SSD.
I guess that maximum bandwidth is good for marketing purposes and still many users look at maximum sequential read as the base of SSD speed while most operations are random and most users need fast access to many small files more than information how fast they can move a couple of GB file.
Crucial P1 1TB SSD offers us the high performance and is clearly worth recommendation to all gamers and those users who need faster storage for the daily work.
