Biwin Black Opal X570 PRO 2TB Review

1. Introduction2. Biwin Black Opal X570 PRO 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. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using v8.0.5.

Biwin's 2TB Black Opal X570 PRO sits mid-table just below the 4TB model in the CrystalDiskMark 8 4K QD1 T1 test, with a read score of 86.69MB/s (identical to the larger version) and 300.49MB/s for writes.

As can be seen from the benchmarking screens, we can confirm the official sequential ratings of the drive of up to 14,000MB/s for reads and up to 13,000MB/s for writes and even better them with default test figures of 14,283.59MB/s for reads and 13,227.19MB/s for writes. Looking at both sets of result screens, it appears that the Silicon Motion controller doesn't have much of a preference in the type of data it's being asked to deal with.

That 14,283MB/s read result places the 2TB X570 PRO in fourth place on the results chart just behind the 4TB version of the drive. It's read result is 88MB/s slower than its larger sibling while the 2TB write result is 181MB/s slower.

Peak Performance Profile

The 2TB X570 PRO is officially rated as up to 2000K IOPS for random reads and up to 1600K IOPS for random writes. Using the Peak Performance profile test of CrystalDiskMark 8 we couldn't quite get to those official maximums. The best read result we saw was 1,898,871 IOPS with the best write figure at 1,528,129 IOPS. Although we couldn't confirm the official figures, the random read result is the fastest we've seen to date for a consumer Gen 5 drive and both results are faster than what the 4TB drive produced.

Once again we could confirm the official sequential figures with Peak Performance profile test results of 14,219MB/s for reads and 13,240MB/s for writes.

Real World Profile

The 2TB X570 PRO sits very close to the bottom of the CrystalDiskMark 8 Real World result table with a read score of 7,247MB/s. However, its write score of 10.663MB/s is the fourth fastest we've seen for a Gen 5 SSD in this test.

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