Performance
All tests were performed on the Intel Coffee Lake platform which contains Intel i7-9700K processor and ASUS Maximus XI Gene motherboard. Used SATAIII controller is of course Intel.
Let’s begin with one of the most popular storage benchmarks – ATTO Disk Benchmark.
ATTO is performing sequential bandwidth tests in which we can see that the performance is actually much higher than that declared by Patriot. We were able to achieve 561MB/s read and 511MB/s write while specification says up to 530MB/s read and 460MB/s write. That’s a quite big difference.
The latest version of ATTO is showing lower bandwidth, but it’s still higher than we can see in the specification. Read bandwidth is slightly above 530MB/s while the write is up to 480MB/s so even 20MB/s higher than expected.
CrystalDiskMark shows similar results in sequential read and write, but what is more interesting in this benchmark is performance in random operations.
Depends on the test file size, performance is higher or lower, but in all tests, it’s still high for a lower series SSD. Deeper queue tests are not really showing us a performance on a typical home and office PC, so we focus on low queue operations like 4KiB Q1T1. The P200 is not the fastest but shows above-average results, so we are satisfied with what we see.
Below are additional tests performed in AIDA64.
In sequential read tests, results are close to what we could see in the ATTO 4 benchmark so about as high as expected.
Random read and write tests are quite impressive as the performance in both is high. Maybe not the highest we’ve seen, but it’s a really respectable result, especially that the drive could keep about the same performance during the whole test.
For some users, the most important will be how the drive works in a typical home and office workload. To check that, we are using PCMark 8. I hope that UL will release PCMark 10 storage benchmark, but till then we have to use older, but still a good version.
The P200 512GB performs well in PCMark 8 storage test. Again, the result is not the best but pretty respectable for a cheaper SATA SSD. Storage score is actually high while the bandwidth is more like an average.
Depends on the workload, we can count that the P200 will perform better or worse but in all cases, higher than we could expect.
