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Best Bench: 425% 532GB free
Worst Bench: 215% 153GB free

Poor: 215% Great: 425%

SPEED RANK: 24^th / 1072

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Best Bench: 371% 3.5TB free
Worst Bench: 195% 1.5TB free

Poor: 195% Great: 371%

SPEED RANK: 33^rd / 1072


Effective Speed Effective SSD Speed		327 %	Faster effective speed. +13%		290 %


Read Avg. Sequential Read Speed	2310 MB/s	+5%	2209 MB/s
Write Avg. Sequential Write Speed	1969 MB/s		2042 MB/s	+4%
4K Read Avg. 4K Random Read Speed	52.5 MB/s	+5%	50.1 MB/s
4K Write Avg. 4K Random Write Speed	152 MB/s	Slightly faster random write. +6%	143 MB/s
Mixed Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed	1271 MB/s		1438 MB/s	Faster mixed IO speed. +13%
4K Mixed Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	74.1 MB/s	+5%	70.6 MB/s
SusWrite Avg. Sustained Write Speed	1764 MB/s	Much faster sustained write speed. +37%	1291 MB/s


Read Peak Sequential Read Speed	2744 MB/s	Slightly faster peak read speed. +9%	2520 MB/s
Write Peak Sequential Write Speed	2511 MB/s	+4%	2421 MB/s
4K Read Peak 4K Random Read Speed	61.8 MB/s	+3%	60.1 MB/s
4K Write Peak 4K Random Write Speed	218 MB/s		223 MB/s	+2%
Mixed Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed	1592 MB/s		1736 MB/s	Slightly faster peak mixed IO speed. +9%
4K Mixed Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	92 MB/s	+1%	91.2 MB/s
SusWrite Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average	2461 MB/s	Much faster peak sustained write speed. +33%	1848 MB/s

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.06 %	Hugely higher market share. +500%	0.01 %
Value Value For Money	50.9 %		94.1 %	Hugely better value. +85%
User Rating UBM User Rating	55 %	Slightly more popular. +8%	51 %
Price Price (score)	$320		$234	Cheaper. +27%


Age Newest	71+ Months		71+ Months
DQ Read Peak 4K-64Thread Read Speed	2052 MB/s	+5%	1958 MB/s
DQ Write Peak 4K-64Thread Write Speed	1631 MB/s	+2%	1599 MB/s
AS-SSD Total AS-SSD Total Score	5,702 Pts	+4%	5,494 Pts
DQ Mixed Peak 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed	1772 MB/s	+3%	1722 MB/s
ADQ Read Avg. 4K-64Thread Read Speed	1248 MB/s	+1%	1234 MB/s
ADQ Write Avg. 4K-64Thread Write Speed	918 MB/s	+1%	905 MB/s
ADQ Mixed Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed	1045 MB/s	+2%	1026 MB/s


Capacity Capacity			1TB			2TB

Good SSD, one of my first NVMe SSD's and very happy with boot times and how quick it can speed up some of my larger games if not running it off a HDD. Has not let me down yet and have been using it for 2 years so far. ^{[Dec '22 Baconmaster2890]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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