Synthetic Storage Benchmarks
PCMark 10
We are using PCMark 10’s Full System Drive Storage Benchmark. It outputs an overall score (higher is better) that is derived from the Bandwidth (higher is better) as well as access time (lower is better) results.
The MSI SPATIUM M480 2TB SSD provides the best performance we have seen so far in PCMark 10’s Storage Full System Drive benchmark. With a score of 2522 it is 16% better than the previous high-score leader, the MSI SPATIUM M470 1TB SSD. It’s 17% better than the CORSAIR Force MP600, a strong SSD, and 29% better than the Sabrent Rocket.
The MSI SPATIUM M480 2TB SSD is also the highest in the PCMark 10 Storage Bandwidth result, at 412 MB/s it is 15% faster than the MSI SPATIUM M470 1TB. It’s 17% faster than the CORSAIR Force MP600 1TB and 61% faster than the Sabrent Rocket.
The MSI SPATIUM M480 2TB SSD also has a superior average access time at 68, which is 14% faster than the MSI SPATIUM M470 1TB SSD and CORSAIR Force MP600 SSD. It’s 22% faster than the Sabrent Rocket.
PassMark PerformanceTEST
We are using PassMark’s PerformanceTEST Disk Mark benchmark only. This test benchmarks Disk Sequential Read, Disk Sequential Write, IOPS 32KQD20, IOPS 4KQD1 tests and outputs an overall score (higher is better.)
In PassMark PerformanceTEST Disk Mark result the MSI SPATIUM M480 2TB SSD scores a total score of 37093, which sits toward the bottom of the graph, under the performance of the MSI SPATIUM M470 and CORSAIR Force MP600. However, it is 18% faster than the Sabrent Rocket. It’s not very far under the MSI SPATIUM M470, however, they are rather close, but it’s a bigger step away from the CORSAIR Force MP600 in this benchmark.
Keep in mind, PassMark PerformanceTEST tests throughput more, as PCMark 10 tests real-world traces. This SSD performance above specifically has to do with its random 4K Q32T16 read speeds. It’s strong in sequential, but the random 4K Q43T16 lags behind a bit, as you will see.