1. Emotional value
After two years of development, QLC particles have established a firm foothold in the field of solid-state drives, and the popularity of large-capacity SSDs has become even faster. From NV1 to NV2, the speed and longevity of QLC have been fully proven.
Now that NV3 has arrived, I personally guess that QLC particles are still used, and large capacities are also becoming popular. What is the ultimate writing life of NV3 with a 2T capacity, and what are its reading and writing speeds in the middle and late stages of its lifespan? Woolen cloth?
NV3 takes over from NV2
The packaging style of Kingston NV3 is exactly the same as that of NV2, simple and elegant.
Unboxing
NV3 still uses a single-sided design, which should be a public model design from the foundry.
The entire SSD is composed of 1 main control chip and 2 storage particles, with no external cache. The single-sided design lays the foundation for achieving greater capacity in the next step.
The NV3 main control uses the SM2268XT2G main control produced by Huirong, which has a cache-free design.
The memory particles have been re-packaged by Kingston, etched with the Kingston LOGO, and the model number is FP01T08UC11.
Other close-ups:
3. Performance test
1. Brand new status test
Next, we conducted a performance test on this new NV3.
Hard disk information:
1x capacity sample for testing
AS SSD Benchmark
ATTO disk benchmarks
CrystalDiskMark
TXBench
4 (5) times capacity sample for testing
AS SSD Benchmark
ATTO disk benchmarks
CrystalDiskMark
TXBench
2. SLC CACHE cache test
Due to changes in SSD storage particle technology, in order to pursue faster reading and writing speeds, QLC process solid state drives generally simulate a certain space as SLC for data reading and writing to improve SSD performance. This space is called SLC Cache. SLC Cache, as a cache area, essentially uses capacity in exchange for speed.
After HD TUNE’s file benchmark test, the write sample was set to 50G, and the read and write speed of the solid-state drive did not change.
After HD TUNE’s file benchmark test, the write sample was set to 100G. There was no slowdown during the test. The SLC Cache space should be large enough, so there is no need to worry.
3. File copy test
Use the KC3000 to copy files to the local SSD to test the reading and writing speed.
Writing speed: Copying more than 11G of video, the average writing speed is 1.64GB/second.
Reading speed: Copy the same video to the local SSD, and the reading speed is 2.45G/second.
4. Temperature test
Run the crystaldiskmark test to 50% process, read the temperature of the solid state drive through the test software, and test the temperature control capability of the main control. It is only 65°C, which can completely avoid the impact of high temperature on the performance and life of the solid state drive.
4. Summary
NV2 has been verified with a write volume of 500T, and its speed and lifespan have been maintained fairly well. Now the solid-state drives on the market have formed a critical stage of transition from TLC to QLC. For QLC, just like we tested NV1 and NV2, we will conduct a write volume and speed test on this NV3 solid-state drive to see if NV3 is worth buying.
During the later life test of NV3, you can see the parameter status information of NV3 through CrystalDiskInfo. For the numerous parameter information in CrystalDiskInfo, we only need to pay attention to the write volume and health level that we most want to know. Can.
