External Flash Storage Devices - PricingĭIY Plugable USBC-NVME and MyDigitalSSD SBX 1TBĪ DIY build is cheap, but can suffer from improper thermals. The table below summarizes the product links and pricing for the various units discussed in the review. However, the relative difference between different models usually doesn't change. The price of flash-based storage devices tend to fluctuate quite a bit over time.
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The OWC Envoy Pro EX USB-C does go beyond 6W, but, only for a very brief while. The peak power consumption is also below 4.5W.
At just 570 mW idle power consumption, the T7 Touch is a winner when used with a battery-powered host. The Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch's race to idle is the most interesting aspect decipherable from the above results. The graphs below plot the instantaneous bus power consumption against time, while singling out the maximum and minimum power consumption numbers.ĭrive Power Consumption - CrystalDiskMark Workloads Using the Plugable USBC-TKEY, the bus power consumption of the drives was tracked while processing the CrystalDiskMark workloads (separated by 30s intervals). In this context, it is interesting to have a fine-grained look at the power consumption profile of the various drives. While Thunderbolt 3 ports are guaranteed to supply up to 15W for client devices, USB 2.0 ports are guaranteed to deliver only 4.5W (900mA 5V). Power Consumptionīus-powered devices can configure themselves to operate within the power delivery constraints of the host port. The temperature at the end of the scenario is 63C. The Lexar SL100 Pro is slightly better - starting off at 820 MBps, before moving down to 450 MBps and then down to 180 MBps. The Crucial X8 is the worst of the lot - starting off at 825 MBps fo around 42GB of data prior to dropping below 100 MBps for the reamining duration. The T7 Touch starts off around 750 MBps, spends a significant amount of time at 560 MBps before ramping up again to around 600 MBps. A steady 850 MBps is maintained throughout by the Extreme Pro (and 830 by the Envoy Pro EX), though the temperature shows a toasty 19C and 15C increase in the process for the two units. The SanDisk Extreme Pro and the OWC Envoy Pro EX USB-C exhibit the best possible behavior in this stress test. Sequential Write to 90% of Disk Capacity - Performance Consistency The internal temperature is recorded at either end of the workload, while the instantaneous write data rate and cumulative total write data amount are recorded at 1-second intervals. A fio workload is set up to write sequential data to the raw drive with a block size of 128K and iodepth of 32 to cover 90% of the drive capacity. Our Sequential Writes Performance Consistency Test configures the device as a raw physical disk (after deleting configured volumes).
Use of SLC caching as well as firmware caps to prevent overheating may cause drop in write speeds when a flash-based DAS device is subject to sustained sequential writes. Fortunately, such workloads are uncommon for direct-attached storage devices, where workloads are largely sequential in nature. Many benchmarks use that scheme to pre-condition devices prior to the actual testing in order to get a worst-case representative number. Worst-Case Performance Consistencyįlash-based storage devices tend to slow down in unpredictable ways when subject to a large number of small-sized random writes. We analyze each of these in detail below. The latter is also important when used with battery powered devices such as notebooks and smartphones.
Power users may also be interested in performance consistency under worst-case conditions, as well as drive power consumption. We also looked at the performance consistency for these cases. The performance of the drives in various real-world access traces as well as synthetic workloads was brought out in the preceding sections. Miscellaneous Aspects and Concluding Remarks