Game Load Time and Workstation Performance
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Benchmark
The Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Benchmark is a unique game benchmark that allows us to objectively calculate the load times of different game scenes loading on the SSD. This benchmark runs multiple scenes that it benchmarks, it also keeps track of the scene load times for each scene and reports a duration, in addition, it provides an overall average duration of all the scenes together. This provides consistency in testing. We report the overall average scene load time of all the scenes in seconds, lower is better.
In Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Benchmark the Sabrent Rocket 500GB falls behind the CORSAIR Force MP600 1TB SSD. The game load time is half a second slower, or 5% slower.
SPECworkstation 3.1
We are using SPECworkstation 3.1 and specifically the WPCstorage test. “The storage workload is based on storage transaction traces from a wide variety of professional applications engaged in real work.” It includes media and entertainment, product development, life sciences, energy, and general operations. Each program receives a score, and they are averaged together for an overall score, higher is better.
Running workstation applications the Sabrent Rocket 500GB SSD falls behind quite significantly to the CORSAIR Force MP600 1TB. Those slower write speeds are hurting it here.
Temperature
Stress Test Temperature
In our first temperature test, we run a stress test to maximize the temperature of the SSD as much as possible. Basically, we want to get it running as hot as possible. We run a Secure Erase function with the same disk management software on all the drives to make it apples-to-apples. This heats up the SSDs as much as possible. If the SSD comes with its own heatsink, we use it, if it does not, we use the standard motherboard M.2 heatsink that comes with our motherboard.
For the CORSAIR MP600 1TB SSD, we used the manufacturer included SSD. For the Sabrent Rocket 500GB we used the motherboard M.2 heatsink.
The Sabrent Rocket 500GB SSD runs at a cooler temperature upon stress test. It of course does have less to cool, there are only modules on one side for example. The capacity is also less.
Typical Usage Temperature
Our typical usage temperature test notes the temperature of the SSD in typical usage scenarios. This is what you will experience in normal workloads.
In typical usage, the Sabrent Rocket 500GB once again does run slightly cooler. This means on regular usage, it won’t get as hot. This could be good for laptops.