File Copy and Workstation Performance
DiskBench
With DiskBench we run two different tests. First, 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. Second, we do the same thing but with the SteamLibrary folder. The SteamLibrary folder is a 243GB folder containing 570 smaller files. This replicates a folder with varying different file sizes and copying those files.
Copying a large 50GB file from volume to volume the MSI SPATIUM M580 2TB FROZR SSD is the fastest of the bunch here, at just 13 seconds flat, beating the MSI SPATIUM M570 PRO FROZR by more than a whole second, and the CORSAIR MP700 PRO by almost a full second. This isn’t huge differences, but when copying large files, seconds do matter.
This is something a gamer might do, coping your SteamLibrary or Steam Game Library folder. In this one, it is 243GB of data in 570 varying file sizes. This one is measured in minutes above. We can see that the MSI SPATIUM M580 2TB FROZR SSD is the fastest drive of the bunch, at 1.1 minutes to copy the folder, beating the others by a decent amount. It is 8% faster than the CORSAIR MP700 PRO and MSI SPATIUM M570 PRO SSDs.
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 WPCstorage testing, the MSI SPATIUM M580 2TB FROZR SSD performs very well at an 8.52 overall score, matching performance with the CORSAIR MP700 PRO. These results are very strong for these SSDs and shows that all of them are great at workstation workloads, and the MSI SPATIUM M580 2TB FROZR SSD would work great on a workstation-class PC.