Klevv CRAS C930 2TB Gen4 SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Klevv CRAS C930 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 the 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 – start 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 the 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).
cps1 Copying 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).

Klevv's 2TB CRAS C930 performs well enough in PCMark10's Full System Drive Benchmark without anything standing out. The six Adobe startup traces produced an average of 250MB/s, with the fastest being the Adobe Premiere Pro startup trace at 309MB/s, with the Lightroom trace the slowest at 210MB/s. For the five usage traces, the fastest was, as usual, the Photoshop heavy usage trace at 1,018MB/s, and including this result, the drive averaged 451MB/s for the five traces.

The three gaming traces produced an average result of 641MB/s, the fastest being Battlefield V at 909MB/s. Next came Call of Duty Black Ops 4 at 640MB/s followed by Overwatch at 375MB/s.

When it came to the file transfers, the fastest was the cp3 Write test at 3,536MB/s with the drive averaging 1,985MB/s for the six file transfer tests.

With an overall bandwidth figure of 428.28MB/s, the 2TB Klevv CRAS C930 sits in the lower half of the results table.

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