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

The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.

The goal of the benchmark is to show meaningful real-world performance differences between fast storage technologies such as SATA, NVMe, and Intel’s Optane. The Full System Drive Benchmark uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It typically takes an hour to run.

Traces used:

Booting Windows 10.
Adobe Acrobat – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Illustrator – starting the application until usable Adobe Premiere Pro – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Photoshop – starting the application until usable.
Battlefield V – starting the game until the main menu.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4 – starting the game until the main menu.
Overwatch – starting the game until main menu.
Using Adobe After Effects.
Using Microsoft Excel.
Using Adobe Illustrator.
Using Adobe InDesign.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Using Adobe Photoshop (heavy use).
Using Adobe Photoshop (light use).
cp1 Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test).
cp2 Making a copy of the ISO files (read-write test).
cp3 Copying the ISO to a secondary drive (read test).
cps1Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, to the target drive (write test).
cps2 Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
cps3 Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test).

The drive averaged 330MB/s for the six Adobe startup traces, the fastest being 439MB/s for the Premiere Pro startup test with the slowest being the 227MB/s using the Lightroom startup test trace.

When tested with the Adobe usage traces, the 2TB X570 PRO averaged 682.6MB/s for the five tests, which includes the 1,425MB/s result for the Adobe Photoshop heavy usage trace. The slowest of the five traces was the InDesign trace at 290MB/s

For the gaming part of the benchmark, the drive averaged 1,054.33MB/s for the three game traces. Fastest was Battlefield V at 1,426MB/s, next up was Call Of Duty Black Ops 4 at 1,182MB/s and the slowest of the three was Overwatch at 575MB/s.

In the file transfer tests the 2TB X570 PRO averaged 3,564MB/s for the six tests with the fastest being the Write Test (cp1) at 6,901MB/s.

With an overall bandwidth figure of 740.74MB/s, the 2TB X570 PRO is a tiny bit faster than the 4TB version of the drive.

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