Crystal Mark results on WD SN730 NVME 1TB SSD are these about right?

[JamesUK]

Hi, I was hoping someone could advise me if these Crystal mark results are about right for this drive?



This drive is running in a Dell G5 5500 laptop running windows 11.

After googling what similar ssd's are comparing i got a few links that showed that 3rd result which says RND4K as more or less showing the same as the first 2 but mine is much lower, i really didn't know if for my drive should that be the same?

Or are my results actually ok and about right?
Thanks
James

 

[Tetras]

What SSD is that similar to? It looks like it is OEM?

 

[JamesUK]

I guess its similar to samsung 970 Pro.

Mine is just a western digital.

 

[Snapshot]

Missed point error. It's obvious that it's Western Digital from the WD in its name. Tetras' point is that it's an OEM drive, not a retail drive, so he'd like to know which retail drive it's closest to so he can gauge whether your performance figures are right or not. From a quick look around my PCs your SN730 is much better than the WD Blue SN550 but not quite as good as the WD Black SN750. It's actually nowhere near a 970 Pro as it's not as good as my 970 EVO but I would say that the RND4K result is spot on.

 

[ExGANDI]

Hi, I was hoping someone could advise me if these Crystal mark results are about right for this drive?

This drive is running in a Dell G5 5500 laptop running windows 11.

After googling what similar ssd's are comparing i got a few links that showed that 3rd result which says RND4K as more or less showing the same as the first 2 but mine is much lower, i really didn't know if for my drive should that be the same?

Or are my results actually ok and about right?
Thanks
James

You have no problem with the drive. Your real problem is called "LAPTOP". Testing something at all with laptop is insane. In reallity you are just testing limitations of compromise called laptop. As you can see my badly beaten SN730 of only 256GB is squashing your 1TB version (RND4K). Obviously i don't own some allien version of SN730. So if you are using laptop don't bother to test ANYTHING. Or at least bear in mind that results show only how bad exactly is running tested piece of hardware with your laptop.

P.S. SN730 is NOT some OEM drive. It's HGST (Hitachi - world leader at SAS server drives - owned by WD) and that's why SN730 is better than SN750 (WD drive). Bettr Write speeds even by WD site. Like for example all WD Ultrastar drives are pure HGST drives.

 

[mrk]

It's a Gen 3 NVMe, its perofrmance is inline with what you can expect, especially from a laptop's controller, plus the laptop may well be in a lower power mode during those tests.

For reference here's my 970 Evo Plus on a desktop PC:

 

[Snapshot]

P.S. SN730 is NOT some OEM drive. It's HGST (Hitachi - world leader at SAS server drives - owned by WD) and that's why SN730 is better than SN750 (WD drive). Bettr Write speeds even by WD site. Like for example all WD Ultrastar drives are pure HGST drives.

HGST is just a dis-used WD brand, it hasn't existed as a separate entity since WD bought Hitachi's HDD division in 2012 and killed the HGST brand in 2018. And HGST never made SSDs; all WD SSDs, whatever the branding, are made by Sandisk which WD bought in 2016. So, yes, the SN730 is an OEM device.

 

[ExGANDI]

HGST is just a dis-used WD brand, it hasn't existed as a separate entity since WD bought Hitachi's HDD division in 2012 and killed the HGST brand in 2018. And HGST never made SSDs; all WD SSDs, whatever the branding, are made by Sandisk which WD bought in 2016. So, yes, the SN730 is an OEM device.

Never made SSD's? WOW!!! So... then HUSMM's from 2011 are also WD drives even before WD aquired Hitachi? And 5 years before Sandisk? Are shure about that? Hmm...

Then this is a review of NONEXISTING SSD produced NOV 2011. (Developed god knows when... 6 month ago? 1 year? More?) "The company said in a statement late Thursday that it completed the acquisition of Viviti Technologies, formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, effective March 8 2012"

Hitachi Ultrastar SSD400M Enterprise SSD Review

The Ultrastar SSD400M is Hitachi’s effort to provide a serious contender in the burgeoning…

www.storagereview.com

B.T.W. SanDisk SAS SSD's are not near as good as Hitachi SSD's (to say at least). And if you open one of both you'll see why. SanDisk SAS SSD's are not bad, but also not good. Mediocre at best. Well... may be i've never hit good SanDisk ssd and they actually exist. IMHO HUSMM series SSD's are the best things to play with before 24Gbps SAS SSD's.

 

[Tetras]

P.S. SN730 is NOT some OEM drive.

As Snapshot clarified, when I said it looks like it is OEM, I was saying "I can't buy this in a retail pack and compare your numbers, with the numbers in a review on THG, TPU (etc)", it wasn't meant as an insult