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Best Bench: 125% 375GB free
Worst Bench: 75% 122GB free

Poor: 75% Great: 125%

SPEED RANK: 227^th / 1072

165 User Benchmarks

Best Bench: 97% 411GB free
Worst Bench: 51% 64GB free (System drive)

Poor: 51% Great: 97%

SPEED RANK: 480^th / 1072


Effective Speed Effective SSD Speed		106 %	Much faster effective speed. +32%		80.4 %


Read Avg. Sequential Read Speed	439 MB/s	+2%	429 MB/s
Write Avg. Sequential Write Speed	420 MB/s	+1%	415 MB/s
4K Read Avg. 4K Random Read Speed	34.7 MB/s	Much faster random read. +45%	24 MB/s
4K Write Avg. 4K Random Write Speed	86.8 MB/s	Much faster random write. +36%	63.6 MB/s
Mixed Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed	379 MB/s	+3%	368 MB/s
4K Mixed Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	48.3 MB/s	Hugely faster random mixed IO. +127%	21.3 MB/s
SusWrite Avg. Sustained Write Speed	403 MB/s	Faster sustained write speed. +13%	356 MB/s


Read Peak Sequential Read Speed	514 MB/s		525 MB/s	+2%
Write Peak Sequential Write Speed	474 MB/s		506 MB/s	Slightly faster peak write speed. +7%
4K Read Peak 4K Random Read Speed	43.2 MB/s	Much faster peak random read. +44%	30.1 MB/s
4K Write Peak 4K Random Write Speed	117 MB/s	Faster peak random write. +12%	104 MB/s
Mixed Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed	429 MB/s		506 MB/s	Faster peak mixed IO speed. +18%
4K Mixed Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	59.7 MB/s	Much faster peak random mixed IO. +53%	38.9 MB/s
SusWrite Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average	467 MB/s		473 MB/s	+1%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.67 %	Insanely higher market share. +∞%	0 %
Value Value For Money	43.6 %	Hugely better value. +329%	10.2 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	60 %	More popular. +13%	53 %
Price Price (score)	$86	Much cheaper. +57%	$198


Age Newest	75+ Months	Much more recent. +31%	108 Months
DQ Read Peak 4K-64Thread Read Speed	389 MB/s	Faster peak deep queue read. +12%	348 MB/s
DQ Write Peak 4K-64Thread Write Speed	366 MB/s	+5%	349 MB/s
AS-SSD Total AS-SSD Total Score	1,275 Pts	Slightly stronger server IO. +10%	1,164 Pts
DQ Mixed Peak 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed	305 MB/s	Hugely faster peak deep queue mixed IO. +94%	157 MB/s
ADQ Read Avg. 4K-64Thread Read Speed	341 MB/s	Much faster deep queue read. +47%	232 MB/s
ADQ Write Avg. 4K-64Thread Write Speed	303 MB/s	Much faster deep queue write. +36%	222 MB/s
ADQ Mixed Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed	228 MB/s	Hugely faster deep queue mixed IO. +359%	49.7 MB/s


Capacity Capacity			1TB			480GB

Really fast for a very good price, loads my windows and opens up youtube from my browser in the time of 43 seconds ^{[Jan '24 EthanOZT]}

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16