Cheapest NVME SSD - King Coco 1TB Review
by Mathieu Poliquin
I needed to replace the SSD in my laptop since I was running out of space. I decided to give a try to the cheapest 1 Terabyte NVMe SSD I could find on taobao since I was curious to know if there was really a difference for everyday tasks as well as game dev related usage compared to more expensive ones such as the intel 760p ssd which I have for my desktop.
Conclusion for those in a hurry
So far it performs quite well and without any percitible or meaningful differences for everyday tasks, game dev/coding related tasks and even with having a Ubuntu VM running in the background on Hyper-V. Althought for 4K video editing tasks or heavy server usage (which I did not tested) I would guess it’s better to consider a better performing one.
Benchmarks
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CrystalDiskMark 6.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1579.419 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 542.497 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 933.307 MB/s [ 227858.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 444.407 MB/s [ 108497.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 358.295 MB/s [ 87474.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 135.153 MB/s [ 32996.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 15.812 MB/s [ 3860.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 38.458 MB/s [ 9389.2 IOPS]
Test : 1024 MiB [C: 33.1% (315.1/953.2 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2019/09/05 9:28:01
OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 18362] (x64)
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