Performance
The performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform, which contains the Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU, ASRock B650E PG ITX motherboard, 48GB DDR5-7200@6400 memory kit, and Nvidia RTX 4070 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.
The ATTO Benchmark results are surprising. The maximum read bandwidth is 6.90GB/s, while the maximum write bandwidth is 5.30GB/s. Both values are much higher than declared in the product specifications.
The CrystalDiskMark results are not so spectacular but meet our expectations. The maximum sequential bandwidth is around 5.02GB/s, and the maximum sequential write bandwidth is above 4.38GB/s.
Random bandwidth results and 4K IOPS are pretty high and higher than declared by KLEVV. Write IOPS even passed the 1000k mark. The C910 Lite may seem like a budget SSD, but its performance is not much worse than that of some higher-series SSDs.
PCMark 10 Storage benchmark results are quite mixed. The Full System Drive and Quick System Drive benchmarks are not the highest but about as high as expected. On the other hand, the Data Drive benchmark is exceptionally high, reaching over 700MB/s, so as much as some high PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD series.
In the 3DMark Storage Benchmark, we are back to not the highest but expected performance. It’s not bad, but I guess we wish some more for a main gaming storage.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is an older benchmark but still popular, so why not use it?
Results in this benchmark are pretty average and 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 last test is AIDA64, which is quite demanding, especially in random read and write tests.
The random read test gave us a quite high bandwidth of 2899MB/s average. It’s the result not far from high PCIe 4.0 x4 SSDs. On the other hand, we can see quite high CPU usage of up to 12%.
The random write is also high, with an average bandwidth of 2849MB/s, which should satisfy professional users who work on large amounts of small files.
The KLEVV C910 Lite SSD performs slightly better than expected and, in some tests, also better than specified. As long as you expect it to perform well but not reach the performance of any top SSD series, then you will be satisfied. It’s a perfect secondary SSD or an SSD for a mobile device where low heat and no throttling are more desired than slightly higher performance.
