File Copy | Game | Throughput Performance | Workstation
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’s ability to copy a single large file from itself to itself as if you were copying files on the same drive, it replicates this drive being your primary and only drive. Results are in duration Seconds, lower is better.
Copying a large 50GB file from volume to volume the Lexar NM800 PRO 1TB SSD does extremely well, with the second fastest time of 20.9 seconds. It beats every SSD, except for the MSI Spatium M480. This is a really good copy time, and a full 6 seconds faster than the slowest SSD.
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.
While the file copy was fast, it seems it tied for the slowest game load time in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Benchmark. It isn’t a huge degree slower, we are talking less than a second, but these results are very consistent and can indicate an overall comparatively relevant performance for game loading small files.
ATTO
In ATTO the Lexar NM800 PRO 1TB SSD performs at the top of the graph, matching the Acer Predator GM7000 and Adata Legend 960 on read performance. It does fall lower on write performance compared to those drives but is faster than the Acer Predator GM7. However, performance is consistent across the board, here is a screenshot of ATTO.
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 Lexar Professional NM800 PRO 1TB SSD performs very well at 6.55, one of the higher results we’ve had in this benchmark, this is a tough benchmark and really stresses SSDs in professional applications for workstations. The Lexar NM800 PRO SSD would be a good option in workstation applications, third on the graph, beating everything except the Adata Legend 960 and Acer Predator GM7000 which is the fastest. This proves the content creation and professional application use of the SSD.