ADATA XPG Mars 980 Blade 2TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. ADATA XPG Mars 98 Blade 2TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Temperatures17. Real Life File Testing18. Conclusion19. View All Pages

We used CrystalDiskMark 8’s custom settings to test the 4K 70/30 mixed read/write performance of the drive through a range of queue depths using a single thread and four threads.

In the four-threaded 4K 70/30 read/write tests, the performance of the 2TB ADATA XPG Mars 980 Blade ranges from 75,227 IOPS (308.13MB/s) at QD1 to 549,305 IOPS (2,249,95 MB/s) at QD32. Dropping to a single thread, the performance ranges from 25,076 IOPS (102.71MB/s) at QD1 up to 209,488 IOPS (858.06MB/s) at QD32. With a single thread, the performance seems to slow down between QD2 and QD4 with a corresponding large spike in the latency, but the drive quickly recovers and accelerates up to QD16, where the performance starts to plateau out until the end of the test run.

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