Performance
The performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform, which contains the Ryzen 9 7950X CPU, Gigabyte B650E Master motherboard, Kingston 96GB DDR5-6400 CL32 memory kit, and ASUS Dual RTX4070 Super 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 better than expected. The maximum read is up to 4.42GB/s, and the maximum write is 3.75GB/s. Both results are not as high as the maximum specified sequential bandwidth but are not far.
The CrystalDiskMark results are pretty high, but we can see that after multiple passes, there is visible thermal throttling in the writes, causing the bandwidth to drop by even 50%. It’s not so rare to see thermal throttling. 2230 SSDs are especially affected by that, as it’s hard to use any heatsink in tight spaces. On the other hand, read bandwidth is the most important in office work and gaming, so we shouldn’t see significant performance differences during most daily tasks.
The Micron 2400 performs pretty well in UL benchmarks but not as well as the higher M.2 2230 SSD series. In the upcoming weeks, we will try to present the Crucial P310, which should dominate UL benchmarks, but its price is expected to be significantly higher than the Micron 2400.
The 3DMark Storage Benchmark score is the only one that is pretty average. It’s still fine for every application, but the same as in PCMark 10, there are faster SSDs around.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is an older benchmark but still popular, so why not use it?
Results in this benchmark are high, just 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 Blackmagic benchmark results are pretty good. The SSD passed this test without issues.
The last test is AIDA64, which is quite demanding. Since other benchmarks already showed sequential bandwidth, this time, we focus on random read and write.
In both tests, so random reading and writing, the Micron 2400 performs well. Results are not far from those made on M.2 2230 TLC SSDs. I’m also surprised that this extended benchmark doesn’t show any signs of thermal throttling, which we could clearly see in CrystalDiskMark.
The Micron 2400 2TB SSD is not the fastest 2230 SSD around, but it delivers pretty good results and is the least expensive 2TB SSD in this format. Even though we may expect more, it’s more than enough for most users, and even gamers shouldn’t complain as it exceeds the specification of the most popular Steam Deck.
