Performance
Performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform, which contains Ryzen 5 4650G processor and ASUS Strix B550-I Gaming motherboard. All tests were performed in the Windows 10 x64 environment.
There are two tests for each benchmark. The first is always a single drive result. The second one is a result in RAID0 mode. Some readers can ask why there are no RAID1 results. The answer is simple. RAID1 results are almost exactly the same as single drive results, so as far as they were tested, I skipped it in this review to make everything clearer. More RAID results on the Burst 960GB SSD will be in the next review, covering the TerraMaster F2-422 NAS environment.
Let’s begin with the ATTO Disk Benchmark, one of the most popular applications designed to measure storage bandwidth.
The new ATTO benchmark shows us almost always a bit lower results than expected, so we are glad to see up to 538MB/s in the read bandwidth test and up to 523MB/s in the write bandwidth test.
Two drives are scaling well, so we can see up to 1.04GB/s read and 1.01GB/s write. So far, so good.
In the CrystalDiskMark, results are better. This benchmark is also showing us multiple results in random access operations.
We could achieve up to 563MB/s read and 514MB/s write. Both results are pretty good, even though the write bandwidth is a bit lower than expected.
In RAID0, the Burst shows nearly double the sequential bandwidth. Low queue 4K tests are not much different, but this is typical for RAID modes. Either way, the results are pretty good for SATA SSD.
In the PCMark 10 storage benchmarks, results are not as high in RAID0 as we could expect.
As far as single drive bandwidth looks good, then two drives are not showing significant differences. This is why most gamers are deciding to stay with a single drive rather than set RAID0. RAID modes are still a good option if we wish to protect our data or avoid breaks in work when some projects are running for a longer time. This is not the case with RAID0, but for example, RAID10 is getting more popular and is recommended for SSD in workstation or server environment. For RAID10, you will need at least four SSD.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities, as usual, show lower sequential bandwidth. It’s a matter of performed tests and test files. On the other hand, random transfers are quite good, so all seems fine.
In RAID0 mode is a similar scaling as in other tests, so a bit shy of double the bandwidth. It still looks good, and I guess that all should be satisfied.
The Burst SSD performs well, regardless if we use it as a single drive or in RAID0 mode. The best option would be to use these drives as additional storage in RAID1 mode so the data will be protected in case of any hardware failure. For an OS and game drive, I recommend M.2 PCIe SSD from the Viper Gaming line.
