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Best Bench: 128% 477GB free
Worst Bench: 76% 253GB free

Poor: 76% Great: 128%

SPEED RANK: 225^th / 1072


Effective Speed Effective SSD Speed		107 %	Slightly faster effective speed. +9%		98.4 %


Read Avg. Sequential Read Speed	473 MB/s	+3%	457 MB/s
Write Avg. Sequential Write Speed	424 MB/s	+5%	405 MB/s
4K Read Avg. 4K Random Read Speed	39.4 MB/s	Faster random read. +15%	34.3 MB/s
4K Write Avg. 4K Random Write Speed	81.1 MB/s		87.6 MB/s	Slightly faster random write. +8%
Mixed Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed	403 MB/s	Faster mixed IO speed. +12%	359 MB/s
4K Mixed Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	51.3 MB/s	Faster random mixed IO. +14%	45 MB/s
SusWrite Avg. Sustained Write Speed	374 MB/s	Faster sustained write speed. +26%	296 MB/s


Read Peak Sequential Read Speed	516 MB/s	+2%	507 MB/s
Write Peak Sequential Write Speed	473 MB/s		485 MB/s	+3%
4K Read Peak 4K Random Read Speed	49.3 MB/s	Faster peak random read. +15%	43 MB/s
4K Write Peak 4K Random Write Speed	112 MB/s		122 MB/s	Slightly faster peak random write. +9%
Mixed Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed	452 MB/s	Slightly faster peak mixed IO speed. +7%	423 MB/s
4K Mixed Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	66.9 MB/s	Faster peak random mixed IO. +15%	58.3 MB/s
SusWrite Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average	443 MB/s	Faster peak sustained write speed. +14%	387 MB/s

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User Rating UBM User Rating	51 %		56.8 %	More popular. +11%
Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.03 %		0.18 %	Hugely higher market share. +504%
Price Price (score)	$95	+1%	95.9 USD
Value Value For Money	24.7 %	Much better value. +32%	18.7 %


DQ Read Peak 4K-64Thread Read Speed	309 MB/s		367 MB/s	Faster peak deep queue read. +19%
DQ Write Peak 4K-64Thread Write Speed	353 MB/s		358 MB/s	+1%
DQ Mixed Peak 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed	258 MB/s		331 MB/s	Faster peak deep queue mixed IO. +28%
ADQ Read Avg. 4K-64Thread Read Speed	287 MB/s		326 MB/s	Faster deep queue read. +14%
ADQ Write Avg. 4K-64Thread Write Speed	293 MB/s	+1%	289 MB/s
ADQ Mixed Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed	229 MB/s		260 MB/s	Faster deep queue mixed IO. +14%
Age Newest	81+ Months	More recent. +16%	93.9 Months
AS-SSD Total AS-SSD Total Score	1,150 Pts		1,240 Pts	Slightly stronger server IO. +8%


Capacity Capacity			512GB			—

Five year warranty, this SDD will outlive most others (or at least it should). New technology, 64 layers of 3D NAND flash. It's too early to to do proper comparisons in terms of longevity but I'm sure it'll last me a while. This 545s 2.5 inch SSD is even faster than my Crucial MX300 M.2 SSD. I got a random read/write 4k speed of 100 MB/s + (with CrystalDisk Mark 5) that's unheard of on a SATA drive. Sure, this isn't NVMe or Optane, but that's okay, for the price ($165) I'm still pretty satisfied with this SSD. ^{[Dec '17 morahman7vn]}

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