While a barebones option would have been nice, the asking price for a machine of this specification is competitive and highlight how much more power and capability paying extra can net you.Ĭompared with more expensive options, like the Intel NUC 13 Pro, the AS 5 looks like a snip for this power and capability. That offering is almost exactly the same cost as the Minisforum NPB7, but that machine only comes with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage for $609. Shipping is from local warehouses in each region, so purchasers should expect their hardware in 2-5 business days. At the time of writing, the product is out of stock from the maker's UK website but available on the USA and EU sites. There is a single SKU of this machine that comes with 1TB of storage and 32GB of RAM on offer. Often Mini PC makers offer a series of SKUs, with some even making the machine without RAM or storage available as ‘barebones’, but not the AS 5. Get the As5 for $564 after using code: AS540A at checkout Where can you get it? Direct from Geekom.When is it out? It is starting to be available now. Thanks for another excellent review, Les. Seriously though, it’s time to build a new PC with all new components, except for the case (Antec Solo).īTW, Crucial Storage Executive still reports that my MX100 is almost like new. I think I heard somewhere that patience is a virtue. My PC might be as slow as molasses compared to all of the new hardware, but it still works okay for being all 2014 hardware. In the meantime, I’m still stuck with a sequential read/write around 500 MB/s and random 4K read/write of 33.8 and 136.1 MB/s. While I don’t know if this drive reviewed here is the fastest at random 4K, it still looks very good to me. Since I’m one of the “typical consumer desktop” users, I still pay very close attention to the random 4K Q1T1. I’m still using the MX100 (with all of the same components), but I plan on upgrading after we see finished-product E18 reviews, and AMD Zen3 CPUs become more plentiful. Right after you released this review, I built a new PC using the MX100 with all new components. High queue depth speed results over queue depths 3-5 usually don’t matter much for typical consumer desktop usage.” “While such high IOPS are nice to see, most consumers should be looking at the 4K performance of the drive. This reminds me of one of the many reasons I bought a 512GB Crucial MX100, based on your review on June 12, 2014: “Not only are the throughput and IOPS high sequentials looking very good, but also, low 4k random read and write throughput is solid.” The Real World File Transfer Comparison is amazing! I suspect that with some firmware tweaking they’ll speed up the music and photo transfer as well. Simply click on the title for a free copy. Advanced load bench-marking can be configured, as well as full drive information and data erasing via secure erase, enhanced secure erase, TRIM and overwriting. TxBench is one of our newly discovered benchmarks that we works much the same as Crystal Diskmark, but with several other features. The AJA Video Systems Disk Test is relatively new to our testing and tests the transfer speed of video files with different resolutions and Codec. Not only does it have a preset SSD benchmark, but also, it has included such things as endurance testing and threaded I/O read, write and mixed tests, all of which are very simple to understand and use in our benchmark testing. The benchmark displays test results for, not only throughput but also, IOPS and Disk Access Times. Transfer speeds are displayed on the left with IOPS results on the right.Īnvil’s Storage Utilities (ASU) are the most complete test bed available for the solid state drive today. For the most part, AS SSD tests can be considered the ‘worst case scenario’ in obtaining data transfer speeds and many enthusiasts like AS SSD for their needs. The toughest benchmark available for solid state drives is AS SSD as it relies solely on incompressible data samples when testing performance. Not only are the throughput and IOPS high sequentials looking very good, but also, low 4k random read and write throughput is solid. Right about now, things are starting to look real good for the WD Black SN850. Performance is virtually identical, regardless of data sample so we have included only that using random data samples. Crystal Disk Benchmark is used to measure read and write performance through sampling of random data which is, for the most part, incompressible.
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