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Virtual NVMe Disk 251GB

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Release date ≈ Q3 2019.

Average Bench: 101% (252nd of 1071)

Based on 5 user benchmarks.  Model: Parallels Virtual NVMe Disk
Poor: 49%Average: 101% Great: 138%

Outstanding average bench

The Parallels Virtual NVMe Disk 251GB averaged 0.5% higher than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the Parallels Virtual NVMe Disk 251GB near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 178MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 1,112MB/s

Unknown consistency

There are too few samples to reasonably determine how consistently this SSD perfroms. This result should be interpreted with caution.

Weaknesses

Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 21.8MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 16.3MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 5 samples)
Rank 252101%
Min Avg Max
459 Read 1,112 1,610
263 Write 511 754
197 Mixed 432 636
200 SusWrite 453 763
139% 627 MB/s
Min Avg Max
8.2 4K Read 16.3 23.3
15.4 4K Write 21.8 33.7
12 4K Mixed 19.8 29.8
61.6% 19.3 MB/s
Min Avg Max
103 DQ Read 219 408
101 DQ Write 187 382
66.4 DQ Mixed 178 436
140% 195 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
82GB free (System drive)
Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s
SusWrite @10s intervals: 401 346 337 350 381 373 MB/s
77.8% Very good
Read 550
Write 392
Mixed 261
SusWrite 365
88% 392 MB/s
4K Read 19.9
4K Write 33.7
4K Mixed 22.9
77% 25.5 MB/s
DQ Read 228
DQ Write 200
DQ Mixed 161
135% 196 MB/s

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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 75,898,137 SSDs tested

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