Pls Let me know how this stacks up

Picked up a new 1TB NVME, have it in a PCIE card along with 2x m.2 sata drives. Under $150

CrystalDiskMark 5.2.1 x64 (UWP) (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://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) : 1579.321 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1521.967 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 420.081 MB/s [102558.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 346.131 MB/s [ 84504.6 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 1418.653 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 1390.694 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 55.611 MB/s [ 13576.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 121.182 MB/s [ 29585.4 IOPS]
Test : 1024 MiB [I: 3.0% (27.7/931.5 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2019/03/19 20:09:38
OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 17134] (x64)


Or do I need to run it a crap ton of times to saturate caching?

Is it in a 4 lane electrical slot? Is it a lower-end NVMe stick? Sequential read looks a bit slow, not that synthetic benchmarks make much of a difference in real world applications.

Random 4K Q1 is what I look at with modern SSD drives. That's what you are more likely to notice in real world usage. Those numbers look fine.

1500MB/s...3000MB/s sequential.....what does that get you? You got bottlenecks elsewhere before those numbers start to matter.

Thank you.

It is an 16 physical 8 electrical pcie slot.

I suppose I could move it right next to the GPU but I think that is an 16/8 too.

I only have 24 pcie lanes and it is on the last 4.

GPU - 16
Onboard m.2 - 4
Pcie other - 4

I hope the new Ryzen 2.0 chipsets have more pcie lanes.

I paid less then $150 new so I was not expecting uber performance.

what is the ssd