Gigabyte Aorus 7000s 2TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte AORUS 7000s 3. 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. Performance Stability15. Drive Temperatures16. Real Life File Testing17. Closing Thoughts18. View All Pages

We used CrystalDiskMark 8‘s custom settings to test the Sequential read and write performance of the drive through a range of queue depths. The setup for the tests is listed below.

128KB Sequential Read / Write.
Transfer Request Size: 128KB, Thread(s): 1, Outstanding I/O: 1-32.

The Gigabyte Aorus 7000s produced a best sequential read figure of 6,899.26MB/s (QD32) under testing, a little short of the official maximum of 7,500MB/s. The best sequential write figure we saw was 6,763.68MB/s (QD8), again short of the official maximum of 6,850MB/s.

128KB Sequential Read v QD comparison.

At queue depths 1 to 4, the Aorus 7000s sits in the bottom half of the results charts, alongside other E18 equipped drives, but does start to climb up the chart at QD32.

128KB Sequential Write v QD comparison.

Comparing the Aorus 7000s to its competitors in the Sequential write result charts shows it to have very good performance at QD1 (behind only Patriot's Viper VP4300 and the MP600 PRO from Corsair), while at QDs 2 and 4 it lies second behind the MP600 PRO. At QD32 it drops to fourth on the list.

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