Transcend PCIe SSD 220S 512GB recenzija

Iz MSana nam je na test stigao Transcendov najnoviji PCIe SSD 220S kapaciteta 512 GB. Ovaj SSD dolazi u M.2 2280 formatu i s podrškom za NVMe 1.3 standard. Proizvođač deklarira brzine transfera od 3.500 MB/s za čitanje, te 2.800 MB/s za zapis podataka, uz trajnost do 800 TBW.

Pakiranje ovog malenog i samo 8 grama teškog uređaja je minimalističko. Blister kutijica je smještena u karton koji na vrhu ima rupu za smještanje na police trgovina. Tako je kupovina 512 GB ili čak 1 TB M.2 SSD-a jednako jednostavna kao primjerice kakve SD kartice ili memory sticka. Jedan od bitnijih podataka koji se nalazi na pakiranju je da proizvođač na ovaj proizvod daje 5 godina ograničenog jamstva.

PCIe SSD 220S je prema proizvođaču, namijenjen upotrebi u high-end primjeni što uključuje audio/video produkciju, gaming i enterprise. Napravljen je na 22 x 80 formatu s M.2 konektorom, PCIe x4 Gen3 vezom i kontrolerom koji podržava NVMe 1.3 sučelje. Proizvođač ne navodi nikakve detalje o kontroleru koji koriste, a 3D NAND memorija je brendirana njihovim imenom.

Ono što nas sve najviše zanima je koji je kontroler upotrijebljen za ovaj SSD. Riječ je o dobro poznatom Silicon Motionovom SM2262 s četiri ARM Cortex-R5 jezgre i podrškom za osam NAND kanala. Nativno podržava NVMe 1.3 standard, LDPC ECC, RAID Engine itd. Kontroleru je od pomoći i DDR3 keš memorija kapaciteta 256 GB. Proizvođač navodi podatke samo o linearnoj brzini čitanja od 3.500 MB/s, te zapisao od 2.800 MB/s, kao i podatak o maksimalnom broju mogućih zapisa od 800 TBW (Terabytes written). Ovdje ide i napomena da se ovi podaci najvjerojatnije odnose na 1 TB model. Podaci o nasumičnim I/O performansama su nedostupni.

Ovaj SSD ima četiri su 64-slojna 3D TLC NAND memorijska čipa s Toshiba brandingom maksimalnog kapaciteta od 512 GB (477 GB korisnog prostora u NTFS-u). Proizvođač uz sve SSD-e omogućava i korištenje korisnog SSD Scope softvera, no iz nekog razloga verzija 3.8.0 nije ispravno htjela prepoznati naš SSD.

SM2262 ima integriran i dinamičku termalnu regulaciju, te kada dosegne određenu temperaturu spušta performanse. Da nam se to ne bi često dešavalo najbolje je na SSD postaviti aluminijskih hladnjak, čak štoviše rekli bi da je to apsolutno nužno za svaki M.2 SSD, ali i osigurati dobru zračnu struju preko njega. Mi smo izmjerili maksimalnih 55°C samo s aluminijskim hladnjakom, a kada tome pridodamo i zračnu struju temperatura pada debelo ispod 50°C. S korištenjem aluminijskog hladnjaka na testnoj ploči nismo primijetili usporavanje ni prilikom dugotrajnog testiranja i rada.

Test sistem:

Test sistem :: Hardware Platforme ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 Procesor(i) Intel Core i7 8700K Memorija GSkill DDR4 2x 8GB 3200 MHz Grafičke kartice Sapphire Nitro+ Vega 56 Zvučna kartica On Board SSD ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB & Gammix S11 240 GB Napajanje SuperFlower Leadex 1200 W Platinum Monitor Dell UltraSharp U2713HM

 

Testni sistem :: Software OS Windows 10 Chipset datoteke Intel Chipset Driver 10.1.1.14 DirectX verzija 11 Intel I/O Meter 2006.07.27/1.1 Beta ATTO Disk Benchmark v.2.47 AIDA64 Engineer Edition, v.5.92.4300 PCMark 8 Storage test

 

Način testiranja

Disk smo testirali na Intelovoj novoj Z390 platformi, tj. ASRockovoj Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 ploči i s i7-8700K procesorom. Radio je u PCIe 3.0 x4 modu s NVMe driverima. Uz sve standardne testove koje provodimo tu je i simulacija četiriju situacija uz pomoć I/O Metera – Database sa 67% čitanja i 33% zapisa, Workstation s 80% čitanja i 20% zapisa, Web Servera sa 100% čitanja i File Servera s 80% čitanja i 20% zapisa, nakon čega ispisujemo broj izmjerenih IOPS-a. Savjeti za svakodnevnu operativu SSD-a pod Windows OS-om uključuju isključivanje stvari kao što su indeksiranje diska, zatim isključivanje prefetcha i Superfetcha te defragmentiranja koje je sasvim nepotrebno.

PCMark8 [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Storage Bandwidth (MB/s)"  labels="Transcend 220S 512GB,Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,Transcend M.2 110S 256GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 2x PCIe,ADATA SX8000 512GB,Intel SSD 750 400GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB, Crucial MX100 512GB, Intel DC S3500 480GB,ADATA SU800 256GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB, Transcend SSD370 256GB,Transcend SSD370 512GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vertex 4 256GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,takeMS UTX-PO318 120GB,Corsair Force 3 128GB" values="657.23,559.55,505.24,500.18,467.8,466.07,432.68,432.16,365.36,338.84,317.85,295.66,292.62,284.67,276.6,277.38,256.21,239.17,234.02,226.96,224.03,216.28,214.05,213.50,205.35,198.68,198.15,180.66,123.9" colors="red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="1000" min="0"] PCMark u Storage testu simulira aktivnost diska snimljenu tijekom prave upotrebe aplikacija iz Adobeovog Creative Suite-a i Microsoftovog Office-a, te dvije igre - WoW i Battlefield 3. Na temelju izvršenih mjerenja performansi donosi rezultat u MB/s. Transcend SSD 220S kreće vrlo uvjerljivo i postiže do sada najviši zabilježeni rezultat. Time dokazuje da je vrlo sposoban za svakodnevne zadaće i gaming. AIDA64 Read [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Linear Read (MB/s)"  labels="Transcend M.2 110S 256GB,Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,Intel SSD 750 400GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,Transcend 220S 512GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,ADATA SX8000 512GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 4x PCIe,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 2x PCIe,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,ADATA SU650 240 GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,Transcend SSD370 512GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,OCZ Vector 180 960GB,OCZ Vector 180 240GB,Transcend SSD370 256GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,ADATA SU800 256GB" values="2709.5,2674.5,2667.2,2651.7,2553.9,2000.0,2000.0,1873.1,1765.33,1635.6,1536.9,1157.87,740.5,644.1,540.7,540.7,539.8,534.66,539.8,526.1,525.8,525.6,525.56,525.3,523.23,520.96,512.3,464.3,452.83,402.1,384.7,377.56,356.6,353.46" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="1000" min="0" max="2700"] [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Random Read (MB/s)"  labels="Transcend M.2 110S 256GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,Intel SSD 750 400GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,Transcend 220S 512GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 4x PCIe,ADATA SX8000 512GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 2x PCIe,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB,Transcend SSD370 512GB,ADATA SU650 240 GB,OCZ Vector 180 960GB,OCZ Vector 180 240GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,ADATA SU800 256GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Transcend SSD370 256GB" values="2708,2666,2659.1,2615.22,2300.7,2160.1,2048.2,1907.3,1853.4,1727.2,1635.5,1004.5,764.1,698.5,674.8,633.8,604.7,603.2,584.7,570.2,560.9,547.1,535.7,534.9,524.6,523.8,509.4,491.2,420.8,397.9,392.6,367.5,356.4,344.1" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="1000" min="0" max="2700"] [ichart headers="ID,ms" htitle="Average Read Access (ms)"  labels="Transcend M.2 110S 256GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,ADATA SX8000 512GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Transcend SSD370 512GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,Intel SSD 750 400GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,OCZ Vector 180 960GB,Transcend 220S 512GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,OCZ Vector 180 240GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 2x PCIe,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 4x PCIe,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,Transcend SSD370 256GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,ADATA SU650 240 GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB" values="0.01,0.02,0.02,0.02,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.04,0.04,0.04,0.05,0.06,0.08,0.08,0.08,0.08,0.10,0.10,0.10,0.10,0.11,0.11,0.11,0.12,0.13,0.14,0.17,0.17" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="1000" min="0" max="0.2"] Rezultati čitanja su solidni, premda ne i sjajni kao kod konkurentnih modela. AIDA64 Write [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Linear Write (MB/s)"  labels="Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,Intel SSD 750 400GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,Transcend 220S 512GB,ADATA SX8000 512GB,OCZ Vector 180 960GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,Transcend SSD370 512GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Transcend SSD370 256GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Transcend M.2 110S 256GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,OCZ Vector 180 240GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 2x PCIe,Intel SSD335 240GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,ADATA SU650 240 GB,ADATA SU800 256GB" values="1497.6,938.8,922.8,908.4,796,683.7,677.8,561.4,544.4,525.5,487.3,485.1,484.2,451.4,430.9,426.3,424.2,366.5,362.9,353,314.3,290.7,290.5,285.5,273.8,262,259.6,249.2,239.0,225.2,153.1,101,73.9" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="1000" min="0" max="1500"] [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Random Write (MB/s)"  labels="Transcend 220S 512GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,Intel SSD 750 400GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 4x PCIe,ADATA SX8000 512GB,Transcend M.2 110S 256GB,OCZ Vector 180 240GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,Samsung SM951 256GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,OCZ Vector 180 960GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Transcend SSD370 512GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,Transcend SSD370 256GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,ADATA SU800 256GB,ADATA SU650 240 GB," values="1106,1073.3,981.4,870.4,865.8,834.8,794.2,635.1,565.3,513.8,397.6,396.5,396.2,395.6,376.6,373.8,364.1,343.6,329.3,310.2,296.6,284.9,280.7,256.8,252.4,244.8,241.2,219,201.4,168.6,133.1,100.2,78.5,58.4" colors="red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,orange" height="1000" min="0" max="1200"] [ichart headers="ID,ms" htitle="Average Write Access (ms)"  labels="Intel SSD 750 400GB,Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,ADATA SX8000 512GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,OCZ Vector 180 240GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,Transcend 220S 512GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vector 180 960GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 4x PCIe,Transcend SSD370 512GB,ADATA SU800 256GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 2x PCIe,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Transcend SSD370 256GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,Transcend M.2 110S 256GB" values="0.02,0.02,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.04,0.04,0.04,0.04,0.04,0.04,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.06,0.06,0.08,0.08,0.1,0.12,0.13,0.14,0.15,0.15,0.18,0.28,0.3,0.36,0.37,0.46,0.56,0.96" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="1100" min="0" max="1"] I dok su performanse zapisa solidne, baš kao i SX8200, 220S je zasjao u nasumičnom zapisu s 1.1 GB/s.

AS SSD i CrystalDiskMark

I AS SSD i Cyrstal koriste nekompresibilne podatke, no mjerenja im se ponešto razlikuju pa ih koristimo oba za usporedbu. Kao što vidimo, sekvencijalne performanse su dobre. I/O Meter Mixed Workload Database [ichart headers="ID,IOPS" htitle="IOPS Combined"  labels="ADATA XPG SX8200 480 GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,Transcend 220S 512GB, ADATA Gammix S11 240 GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,Transcend 110S 256GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB" values="86517.95,81261.66,68304.58,49943.25,21372.37,7462.47,5695.42" colors="blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="500" min="0"] FileServer [ichart headers="ID,IOPS" htitle="IOPS Combined"  labels="ADATA XPG SX8200 480,Transcend 220S 512GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240 GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,Transcend 110S 256GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB" values="58987.68,57784.06,40747.14,31391.64,18251,15081.21,9229.07" colors="blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="500" min="0"] Workstation [ichart headers="ID,IOPS" htitle="IOPS Combined"  labels="ADATA XPG SX8200 480,Transcend 220S 512GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240 GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,Transcend 110S 256GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB" values="75216.39,59291.91,53339.09,40388.9,27572.04,12808.77,8673.5" colors="blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="500" min="0"] WebServer [ichart headers="ID,IOPS" htitle="IOPS Combined"  labels="ADATA XPG SX8200 480,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,Transcend 220S 512GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240 GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB,Transcend 110S 256GB" values="66118.51,63890.98,53353.649,43104.21,39807.76,25948.91,21640.87" colors="blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue" height="500" min="0"] S obzirom na to da smo sada razdvojili testove i radimo direktnu usporedbu ponovimo kako ovaj test simulira četiri različita načina upotrebe i to kako slijedi - Database sa 67% čitanja i 33% zapisa, Workstation s 80% čitanja i 20% zapisa, Web Servera sa 100% čitanja i File Servera s 80% čitanja i 20% zapisa. Očekivano, 220S ima vrlo dobre rezultate u sva četiri testa. Nije optimiziran kao SX8200 koji koristi isti kontroler, no bolji je od Gammixa S11 koji također koristi SM2262. Ovi ga rezultati svakako čine vrlo pogodnim i za profesionalnu upotrebu. Transfer podataka [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Transfer 29.7 GB podataka"  labels="S drugog diska na 220S, S 220S na 220S" values="205.38,190.87" colors="teal,blue" height="200" min="0"] U ovom "real life" testu smo najprije s Corsairovog Neutron XT 480 GB SATA III diska prebacili 29.7 (31.923 MB) podataka (kombinacija velikih i vrlo malih 22.246 fajlova), a zatim napravili identičnu kopiju na disku. Performanse su vrlo solidne s obzirom na veliki broj malih fajlova pa su ovo rezultati koje možete očekivati u svakodnevnom korištenju i manipulacijom. Kod velikih pojedinačnih velikih fajlova to ide značajno brže, oko 500 MB/s.

Da stvari stavimo u pravu perspektivu najprije moramo krenuti od cijene. Ona se u Hrvatskoj kreće oko 625 kuna za ovaj 512 GB model, čime je i za 200 kuna niža od konkurentnih Adata Gammix S11 480 GB ili SX8200 512 GB diskova. S obzirom na to da i jedan i drugi proizvođač na uređaje daju 5 godina jamstva, jedino što ih razlikuje je to što Adata sa svojima daje aluminijske hladnjake. To je dobro za ploče koje nemaju svoje M.2 hladnjake, no kod onih koje ih imaju potpuno je svejedno. Još je možda i bolje, jer je hladnjak masivniji i namijenjen za 110-milimetarske uređaje kao u slučaju naše ploče. SSD 220S se pod njim nije puno zagrijavao i nije bilo pada performansi. Hladnjak je bio vrlo topal na dodir, čak i vruć, no temperatura diska nije prelazila 55°C. Performanse su vrlo dobre i za zahtjevnije zadaće, a ne samo klasični svakodnevni rad ili pak gaming. Sve u svemu, Transcendov SSD 220S 512 GB zaslužuje visoku ocjenu i preporuku.