Disk Copy Benchmark
DiskBench
With DiskBench we place a 50GB single file onto the test drive. We copy this file from the test drive to a new folder on the test drive, volume to volume. This tests the performance of the drive being able to copy a file from itself to itself as if you were copying files on the same drive. Results are in duration Seconds, lower is better.
In addition to the RND4K Q1T1 testing, the ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB also seems to have a weakness in disk copy performance. In transferring a file on the same volume to a new folder on the same volume the ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB SSD had the slowest transfer time of 27 seconds. It was closely followed by the Patriot Viper VPR4000 at 26 seconds. The Acer Predator GM7000, a close competitor of the ADATA LEGEND 960 SSD performed much faster at 22 seconds. We tried various combinations of OS optimizations via the ADATA SSD ToolBox to try and improve this value, and could not. It is possible the 2TB version of this SSD performs differently with this test.
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.
Opposite to the disk copy benchmark, when actually loading game scenes the ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB SSD had a very strong and positive showing. It loaded all scenes in 10.29 seconds, beating almost every other SSD, except for the MSI SPATIUM M470 and Patriot Viper VPR400. It beat the Acer Predator GM7000 and slightly edged out the MSI Spatium M480 and Corsair Force MP600.
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.
In SPECworkstation 3.1 the ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB SSD is a very strong performer, only second to the Acer Predator GM7000, and it’s a very close margin. The difference is only 2% between them. At 6.99 the ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB SSD is faster than the MSI SPATIUM M480 by 25% and faster than the Patriot Viper VPR400 by 29%.
ATTO
In the ATTO benchmark we once again see how the ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB SSD is performing above its rated speeds, especially on sequential write performance. It’s at 6.98GB/s read and 6.36Gb/s write speeds. This puts it on par with the Acer Predator GM7000 on read and above its write performance. It’s also above the MSI SPATIUM M480.