Performance
Performance has been tested on a Coffee Lake platform which contains Intel i9-9700K processor, ASRock B365M Phantom Gaming 4 motherboard and 16GB HyperX Predator DDR4 memory.
All tests were performed on a Windows 10 Pro x64 operating system with the latest updates. The SSD doesn’t need any special drivers or anything else.
Let’s begin tests.
In the specification, we can see that declared maximum bandwidth of the A56 SSD in ATTO benchmark is 560MB/s read, and 530MB/s write. In our tests, we could see a bit higher maximum bandwidth – up to 561MB/s read and up to 541MB/s write.
The latest ATTO release is harder for most drives. A different test pattern is causing lower but still not bad bandwidth – up to 534MB/s read, and 514MB/s write.
Results in CrystalDiskMark were a bit surprising. Our drive could pass this benchmark achieving about as high sequential bandwidth as in older ATTO – up to 560MB/s read, and 539MB/s write. For data write it’s about 100MB/s higher than declared in the specification!
PCMark 8 provides not the latest but still great storage benchmark because of its mixed test pattern which bases on popular applications and simple games. The A56 performs well in this benchmark, about as good as other SSD which are using Phison controller.
Here are also a couple of results in AIDA64 storage benchmark — pretty good results for a SATA SSD.
Performance Test 9 is showing us that the A56 is faster than 78% drives in the world — interesting result and somehow satisfying.
