Performance
Performance has been tested on the Intel Coffee Lake platform which contains the i9-9900K processor and ASUS Maximus XI Gene motherboard. Results can be a bit lower on lower chipsets or AMD platform. For example, Intel B365 motherboards on which the SSD was also tested, were offering about 5-10% lower performance in some benchmarks. Just keep it in mind if you decide to compare our results to your home PC.
All tests were performed on Windows 10 Pro x64 OS with the latest updates. The tested drive was connected separately so no other operations can interrupt tests.
As usual, we will start with the ATTO. Here is a newer and older release of this really popular storage benchmark.
Older ATTO version is showing higher bandwidth. We can see up to 3450MB/s what is much more than expected. It’s actually a performance of a VPN100 1TB. Write bandwidth is a bit lower than expected but this is less important and the much higher read bandwidth is easily covering that.
The newer ATTO is showing lower numbers. Maximum sequential read is about 3.22GB/s so about the same as in specification. Maximum write is up to 1.96GB/s so below the rated speed. Of course, every test uses different size of test files so let’s move to the next benchmark to see how it looks like.
CrystalDiskMark is one of the main storage benchmarks on our market. Most users compare results in this software so we are too.
Our results look great. Even though sequential write bandwidth is below the declared speed then look at the read bandwidth and random operations. Sequential read goes up to 3472MB/s! while 4K Q1T1 read is the highest we’ve seen in our redaction on a single SSD. Just amazing how the performance was improved since the Hellfire SSD series.
In PCMark 8 we can also see exceptional results. It’s again the highest storage bandwidth we’ve seen on a single SSD – 715.58MB/s!
This benchmark is using various popular applications and simple games to perform tests so we can see how our drive works in an actual mixed environment and not only fully synthetic benchmark. I guess that the most demanding users will be fully satisfied.
Performance Test 9 is maybe not the best storage benchmark but we can see that the VPN100 512GB SSD is faster than 99% of all drives in the database. I guess every user will be glad to see something like this on a home PC.
The VPN100 SSD offers top performance and it can easily compete with many other options on the current market.
