Test Bench
For our tests, we used our Test Rig which consists of a MSI Z790 Project Zero motherboard, along with an Intel Core i9-14900K, a Geforce RTX 4080 Super graphics card, and 32GB of Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5-7200 memory kit.
* ALL tests are conducted at specified default speeds and settings.
| CPU | Intel Core i9-14900K |
| Cooling | Corsair iCUE LINK TITAN 360 RX RGB AIO |
| Motherboard | MSI Z790 Project Zero |
| Ram | Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5-7200 32GB Memory Kit |
| XMP 3.0 profiles | Yes |
| SSD | Lexar NM800Pro PCIE Gen4 2TB
Lexar PLAY 2280 PCIE Gen4 4TB |
| PSU | Corsair RM1000x Shift 1000W 80Plus |
| VGA card | GeForce RTX 4080 Super |
| OS |
Windows 11 |
AIDA64 Disk Information
As you can see from AIDA64 disk information, the Lexar PLAY 2280 features 40MB of HMB (Host Memeory Buffer) and supports NVMe 2.0, PCIE 4.0 Gen4x4. It shows a total of 3815MB unformatted capacity, which is about right for a 4TB drive.
AIDA64 doesn’t show the name of the SSD controller, but we know it uses the Maxiotech MAP-1602A, which is one of the new generation of DRAM-Less SSD controllers.
CrystalDiskMark
CrystalDiskMark is a disk benchmark software.It measure sequential reads/writes speed,measure random 512KB, 4KB, 4KB (Queue Depth=32) reads/writes speed, select test data (Random, 0Fill, 1Fill), provide theme support and Multi-Language support.
During our CrystalDiskMark 4GB test we managed to get a Read speed of 7,101.50 MB/sec with Write speeds of 6,487.08 MB/sec. It peforms slightly lower than advertised, but nothing to worry about.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
ATTO has created a widely-accepted Disk Benchmark freeware software to help measure storage system performance. As one of the top tools utilized in the industry, Disk Benchmark identifies performance in hard drives, solid state drives, RAID arrays as well as the host connection to attached storage.
Anvil Storage
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a powerful tool that was designed in order to provide you with a simple means of assessing the read and writer performance of your Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive.
In our Anvil tests, we managed to get a 4K QTD16 Read IOPS score of 268,356.02. While 4K QTD16 write IOPS score was at 453,990.32, which is pretty decent.
PCMark 10 – Full System Drive Benchmark
The Full System Drive benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives.
This benchmark writes 204 GB of data to the drive over the duration of the test. This data is deleted when the test ends.
To run this test, you need a minimum of 80 GB of free space on the drive, 8 GB of RAM, and a quad-core CPU.
PassMark 9
Fast, easy to use, PC speed testing and benchmarking. PassMark PerformanceTest allows you to objectively benchmark a PC using a variety of different speed tests and compare the results to other computers.
