Performance
The performance has been tested on the latest AMD platform, which contains the Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU, Gigabyte B650E Master motherboard, 48GB DDR5-6400 memory kit that runs at XMP settings, and Lian-Li 850W 80+ Gold PSU.
All tests were performed in the 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 the results are easy to compare at home.
The ATTO benchmark usually shows results lower than expected, and it’s no different right now. The maximum bandwidth in this benchmark is 6.82GB/s read and 5.50GB/s write. Both results are pretty good but not even close to the declared in the general SSD specifications.
CrystalDiskMark is showing us nearly 7300MB/s sequential read and 6400MB/s sequential write. Both results are higher than specified for the 2TB version of the FX700 SSD.
The read IOPS is about as high as declared, while the write is significantly higher.
All the results are pretty impressive for the DRAM-less QLC SSD.
In PCMark 10, the results are also pretty good but already lower than those of Maxio-based TLC SSD. It doesn’t change that results in a mixed-load environment should be more than satisfying for most users. Even more demanding gamers should notice any notable difference out of synthetic benchmarks.
As long as most higher series TLC SSDs give us slightly above a 4000 score in 3DMark Storage Benchmark, here we have around 3600. Again, it’s a pretty good result for a lower series SSD, and it beats all competitive SSDs at a similar price.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is an older benchmark but still popular, so why not use it? Even though the results are, as usual, lower than we wish, then they are still pretty high.
The last test is AIDA64, which shows us the performance based on random operations divided into reading and writing. These tests take about 16 minutes each, so they use quite a lot of data, considering the average of over 2GB/s bandwidth.
Both tests, reading and writing, gave us better-than-expected results. They’re still lower than those of high series PCIE 4.0 x4 SSD, but the difference is insignificant.
The HP FX700 2TB SSD is not the fastest, but it wasn’t designed to beat any records. It offers high performance while providing low operating temperatures and low power usage. Hence, as the manufacturer already pointed out, it’s a perfect upgrade for mobile or less demanding desktop computers.
