Performance
The performance has been tested on the latest AMD Ryzen platform, which contains the Ryzen 9 7950X CPU, Gigabyte B650E AORUS Master, Crucial 32GB DDR5-4800 memory kit, and Crucial 1TB P5 Plus M.2 SSD with installed Win11 Pro x64.
Let’s begin as usual with the ATTO Disk Benchmark.
The maximum bandwidth in the ATTO benchmark is 955GB/s. The result on the 2TB version tested a while ago was higher, so I assume it’s a matter of the test platform.
In CrystalDiskMark, our results are high, but the maximum bandwidth is close to 1GB/s, so also a bit lower than expected. Looks like the picked test platform is not as good as we thought. As long as there are no problems with drivers or the USB controller, we should see here up to 1050MB/s or even 1100MB/s, as this was the maximum bandwidth achieved on the 2TB version of the X8 SSD.
All the random bandwidth results are great and match expectations.
Below we can see results based on PCMark 10 and 3DMark Storage Benchmark. Both benchmarks show high results, considering the X8 works on a USB bus. These results are also in random operations. As far as barely anyone is running games from a USB drive, then many people are working directly on portable storage, and then it’s an important piece of data.
Below is the mentioned result in 3DMark Storage Benchmark.
The last test is Anvil’s Storage Utilities which, as usual, shows us lower-than-expected results. All the results are still very high for USB storage.
Crucial X8 4TB SSD is very fast and gives us high capacity in a small enclosure. I’m sure all who decide on this SSD will be satisfied as it delivers everything Crucial declares.
