Toshiba RC100 120GB recenzija

Na test nam je stigao još sredinom prošle godine predstavljen Toshibin RC100 NVMe SSD u M.2 Type 2242-S3-B-M formatu. Drugim riječima, to je maleni 42-milimetarski SSD, koji ima i M-Key i B-key kompatibilnost što je vrlo bitno jer povećava kompatibilnost. S obzirom na maleno pakiranje i BiCS Flash tehnologiju, RC100 je i povoljan. Ovakvi SSD-u koriste PCIe x2 vezu za komunikaciju pa zahtijevaju dvije PCI stazice manje nego mnogi moderni M.2 SSD-i, no imaju i manji bandwidth - 10 vs. 20 Gbps.

Disk dolazi u malenom kartonskom pakiranju na kojem se nalaze grafike uređaja i bitnije informacije kao što je podatak o trogodišnjem jamstvu. Unutar kutije je SSD položen u blister ležište, a tu su i upute za instalaciju i brzi početak korištenja na nekoliko svjetskih jezika.

Uređaj je vrlo malen pa ga je najbolje usporediti s 2280 SSD-om. Malo više od polovice je njegove dužine (42 milimetra), a vidimo i da ima drugačiji konektor. Veći ima M key, a RC100 ima M+B key, pa je kompatibilan s dva tipa utora. To ujedno znači i da je ograničen na PCIe x2 vezu, tj. propusnost od 10 Gbps. Nama je na test stigao primjerak s najmanjim kapacitetom u ponudi (120 GB), a osim njega u ponudi su i 240 te 480 GB verzije.

Uređaj je zanimljiv jer ima tzv. single package dizajn, pri čemu su i kontroler i NAND memorija smješteni u isto pakiranje. Korišten je 64-slojni TLC BiCS NAND FLASH koji je jeftiniji i smanjuje cijenu, a uz to je ovaj sistem i DRAM-less principa što dodatno snižava kompleksnost proizvoda i cijenu. Zato RC100 podržava Host Memory Buffer tehnologiju kao i Transcendov 110S SSD. Kod HMB-a se mapping tablica drži u radnoj memoriji računala umjesto u dediciranom DRAM-u na samom SSD-u.

Proizvođač navodi općenite performanse za sve modele - sekvencijalno čitanje do 1.600 MB/s, sekvencijalni zapis do 1.100 MB/s, nasumično čitanje do 150.000 IOPS-a, i nasumični zapis do 110.000 IOPS-a. Izdržljivost je do 240 TBW. Ove vrijednosti se sve najvjerojatnije odnose na 480 GB model, pa su za ovaj najmanji sigurno niže. Sučelje je PCIE 3.1a specifikacije, a protokol je NVMe 1.2.1. Proizvođač navodi potrošnju u aktivnom stanju od 3.2 W, a MTTF je jedan milijun sati.

 

Uz svaki se Toshibin SSD može skinuti i koristiti SSD Utility uz pomoć kojeg nadziremo parametre rada, omogućen nam je benchmark diska i nadogradnja firmwarea. S obzirom na malene gabarite i jedinstveno pakiranje kontrolera i NAND-a zagrijavanje nije pretjerano, no kao i svaki drugi ovakav SSD, potrebno ga je pasivno ili aktivno hladiti. Mi smo ispod aluminijskog hladnjaka na testnoj ploči i bez ikakve aktivne pomoći ventilatora zabilježili maksimalnu temperaturu od 59°C što je u granicama normale.

Test sistem:

Test sistem :: Hardware Platforme ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 Procesor(i) Intel Core i7 8700K Memorija GSkill DDR4 2x 8GB 3200 MHz Grafičke kartice Sapphire Nitro+ Vega 56 Zvučna kartica On Board SSD ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB & Gammix S11 240 GB Napajanje SuperFlower Leadex 1200 W Platinum Monitor Dell UltraSharp U2713HM

 

Testni sistem :: Software OS Windows 10 Chipset datoteke Intel Chipset Driver 10.1.1.14 DirectX verzija 11 Intel I/O Meter 2006.07.27/1.1 Beta ATTO Disk Benchmark v.2.47 AIDA64 Engineer Edition, v.5.92.4300 PCMark 8 Storage test

 

Način testiranja

Disk smo testirali na Intelovoj novoj Z390 platformi, tj. ASRockovoj Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 ploči i s i7-8700K procesorom. Radio je u PCIe 3.0 x2 modu s NVMe driverima. Uz sve standardne testove koje provodimo tu je i simulacija četiriju situacija uz pomoć I/O Metera – Database sa 67% čitanja i 33% zapisa, Workstation s 80% čitanja i 20% zapisa, Web Servera sa 100% čitanja i File Servera s 80% čitanja i 20% zapisa, nakon čega ispisujemo broj izmjerenih IOPS-a. Savjeti za svakodnevnu operativu SSD-a pod Windows OS-om uključuju isključivanje stvari kao što su indeksiranje diska, zatim isključivanje prefetcha i Superfetcha te defragmentiranja koje je sasvim nepotrebno.

PCMark8 [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Storage Bandwidth (MB/s)"  labels="Transcend 220S 512GB,Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,Transcend M.2 110S 256GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 2x PCIe,ADATA SX8000 512GB,Intel SSD 750 400GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB, Crucial MX100 512GB, Intel DC S3500 480GB,ADATA SU800 256GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,Toshiba RC 100 120 GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB, Transcend SSD370 256GB,Transcend SSD370 512GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vertex 4 256GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,takeMS UTX-PO318 120GB,Corsair Force 3 128GB" values="657.23,559.55,505.24,500.18,467.8,466.07,432.68,432.16,365.36,338.84,317.85,295.66,292.62,284.67,276.6,277.38,273.96,256.21,239.17,234.02,226.96,224.03,216.28,214.05,213.50,205.35,198.68,198.15,180.66,123.9" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,orange,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="1000" min="0"] PCMark u Storage testu simulira aktivnost diska snimljenu tijekom prave upotrebe aplikacija iz Adobeovog Creative Suite-a i Microsoftovog Office-a, te dvije igre - WoW i Battlefield 3. Na temelju izvršenih mjerenja performansi donosi rezultat u MB/s. Solidan rezultat za maleni RC100, smješta ga u sredinu poretka i u rang s nekim od 2.5" modela. AIDA64 Read [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Linear Read (MB/s)"  labels="Transcend M.2 110S 256GB,Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,Intel SSD 750 400GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,Transcend 220S 512GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,ADATA SX8000 512GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 4x PCIe,Toshiba RC 100 120 GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 2x PCIe,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,ADATA SU650 240 GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,Transcend SSD370 512GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,OCZ Vector 180 960GB,OCZ Vector 180 240GB,Transcend SSD370 256GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,ADATA SU800 256GB" values="2709.5,2674.5,2667.2,2651.7,2553.9,2000.0,2000.0,1873.1,1765.33,1635.6,1536.9,1268.13,1157.87,740.5,644.1,540.7,540.7,539.8,534.66,539.8,526.1,525.8,525.6,525.56,525.3,523.23,520.96,512.3,464.3,452.83,402.1,384.7,377.56,356.6,353.46" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="1000" min="0" max="2700"] [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Random Read (MB/s)"  labels="Transcend M.2 110S 256GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,Intel SSD 750 400GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,Transcend 220S 512GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 4x PCIe,ADATA SX8000 512GB,Toshiba RC 100 120 GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 2x PCIe,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB,Transcend SSD370 512GB,ADATA SU650 240 GB,OCZ Vector 180 960GB,OCZ Vector 180 240GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,ADATA SU800 256GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Transcend SSD370 256GB" values="2708,2666,2659.1,2615.22,2300.7,2160.1,2048.2,1907.3,1853.4,1727.2,1635.5,1176.3,1004.5,764.1,698.5,674.8,633.8,604.7,603.2,584.7,570.2,560.9,547.1,535.7,534.9,524.6,523.8,509.4,491.2,420.8,397.9,392.6,367.5,356.4,344.1" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,orange,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="1000" min="0" max="2700"] [ichart headers="ID,ms" htitle="Average Read Access (ms)"  labels="Transcend M.2 110S 256GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,ADATA SX8000 512GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Transcend SSD370 512GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,Intel SSD 750 400GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,OCZ Vector 180 960GB,Transcend 220S 512GB,Toshiba RC 100 120 GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,OCZ Vector 180 240GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 2x PCIe,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 4x PCIe,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,Transcend SSD370 256GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,ADATA SU650 240 GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB" values="0.01,0.02,0.02,0.02,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.04,0.04,0.04,0.05,0.06,0.08,0.08,0.08,0.08,0.09,0.10,0.10,0.10,0.10,0.11,0.11,0.11,0.12,0.13,0.14,0.17,0.17" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="1000" min="0" max="0.2"] Rezultati čitanja su vrlo solidni za ovakav disk, baš kao i vrijeme pristupa. AIDA64 Write [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Linear Write (MB/s)"  labels="Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,Intel SSD 750 400GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,Transcend 220S 512GB,ADATA SX8000 512GB,OCZ Vector 180 960GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,Transcend SSD370 512GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Transcend SSD370 256GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Transcend M.2 110S 256GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,OCZ Vector 180 240GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 2x PCIe,Intel SSD335 240GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,Toshiba RC 100 120 GB,ADATA SU650 240 GB,ADATA SU800 256GB" values="1497.6,938.8,922.8,908.4,796,683.7,677.8,561.4,544.4,525.5,487.3,485.1,484.2,451.4,430.9,426.3,424.2,366.5,362.9,353,314.3,290.7,290.5,285.5,273.8,262,259.6,249.2,239.0,225.2,153.1,115,101,73.9" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue" height="1000" min="0" max="1500"] [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Random Write (MB/s)"  labels="Transcend 220S 512GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,Intel SSD 750 400GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 4x PCIe,ADATA SX8000 512GB,Transcend M.2 110S 256GB,OCZ Vector 180 240GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,Samsung SM951 256GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,OCZ Vector 180 960GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Transcend SSD370 512GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,Transcend SSD370 256GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,ADATA SU800 256GB,Toshiba RC 100 120 GB,ADATA SU650 240 GB" values="1106,1073.3,981.4,870.4,865.8,834.8,794.2,635.1,565.3,513.8,397.6,396.5,396.2,395.6,376.6,373.8,364.1,343.6,329.3,310.2,296.6,284.9,280.7,256.8,252.4,244.8,241.2,219,201.4,168.6,133.1,100.2,90.2,78.5" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,orange,blue" height="1000" min="0" max="1200"] [ichart headers="ID,ms" htitle="Average Write Access (ms)"  labels="Intel SSD 750 400GB,Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB,ADATA Gammix S11 240GB,ADATA XPG SX8200 480GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,ADATA SX8000 512GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,OCZ Vector 180 240GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,Transcend 220S 512GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vector 180 960GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Kingston KC1000 480GB,Samsung 850 EVO 500GB,Patriot Hellfire M.2 240GB,Samsung 850 PRO 256GB,ADATA SX6000 Pro 256 GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 4x PCIe,Transcend SSD370 512GB,ADATA SU800 256GB,Samsung SM951 256GB @ 2x PCIe,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Transcend SSD370 256GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,Toshiba RC 100 120 GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB,Transcend SSD370 128GB,Transcend M.2 110S 256GB" values="0.02,0.02,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.04,0.04,0.04,0.04,0.04,0.04,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.06,0.06,0.08,0.08,0.1,0.12,0.13,0.14,0.15,0.15,0.18,0.28,0.3,0.32,0.36,0.37,0.46,0.56,0.96" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="1100" min="0" max="1"] Zapis nije bolja strana ovoga diska i to se vidi već i po ovim rezultatima, a nastavit će se i na sljedećoj stranici.

AS SSD i CrystalDiskMark

I AS SSD i Cyrstal koriste nekompresibilne podatke, a mjerenja su im nešto drugačija. Kao što vidimo i rezultati su ponešto drugačiji, pogotovo kod sekvencijalnog zapisa. 4K performanse su očekivano niske. I/O Meter Mixed Workload Database [ichart headers="ID,IOPS" htitle="IOPS Combined"  labels="Toshiba RC100 120GB,Transcend 110S 256GB" values="7827.04,7462.47" colors="red,blue" height="300" min="0"] FileServer [ichart headers="ID,IOPS" htitle="IOPS Combined"  labels="Transcend 110S 256GB,Toshiba RC100 120GB" values="15081.21,7949.75" colors="blue,red" height="300" min="0"] Workstation [ichart headers="ID,IOPS" htitle="IOPS Combined"  labels="Transcend 110S 256GB,Toshiba RC100 120GB" values="12808.77,10688.67" colors="blue,red" height="300" min="0"] WebServer [ichart headers="ID,IOPS" htitle="IOPS Combined"  labels="Transcend 110S 256GB,Toshiba RC100 120GB" values="21640.87,18598.79" colors="blue,red" height="300" min="0"] Ovaj test simulira četiri različita načina upotrebe u serverskom okruženju i to kako slijedi - Database sa 67% čitanja i 33% zapisa, Workstation s 80% čitanja i 20% zapisa, Web Servera sa 100% čitanja i File Servera s 80% čitanja i 20% zapisa. Ovo jasno nije prirodno okruženje za RC100, no test je dobar pokazatelj performansi i onoga što zapravo najviše odgovara ovom SSD-u. A to je kao što vidimo test sa 80% čitanja i 20% zapisa u kojem je ostvario najbolji I/O rezultat, no ne može se reći ni da je u ostalim mjerenjima loš, pogotovo stoga što i nije puno sporiji od Transcendovog 110S koji je PCIe x4 SSD. Transfer podataka [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Transfer 29.7 GB podataka"  labels="S drugog diska na RC100, S RC100 na RC100" values="45.49,23.96" colors="orange,blue" height="200" min="0"] U ovom "real life" testu smo najprije s Corsairovog Neutron XT 480 GB SATA III diska prebacili 29.7 GB (31.923 MB) podataka (kombinacija velikih i vrlo malih 22.246 fajlova), a zatim napravili identičnu kopiju na disku. Performanse su vrlo slabe i ovdje se vidi sporost RC 100 diska i njegovog DRAM-less koncepta.

Toshibin je RC100 maleni DRAM-less SSD koji komunicira putem PCIe x2 sučelja i NVMe protokolom. Sintetičke su performanse pokazale da ima solidne performanse čitanja, no da će zapis biti malo problematičan. Tako je i bilo u real-life testovima koje smo proveli. 30-tak gigabajta što većih što manjih fajlova pokazalo se problematično kada se kopira sa samog sebe, dok je još kopiranje s drugog diska i bilo koliko toliko podnošljivo. No, ovaj disk će zapravo rijetko tko koristiti za puno zapisa, pa će kao kakav sistemski disk u računalu ili prijenosniku s laganim zadaćama zapravo biti adekvatan. Malene dimenzije, NVMe, podrška za dva tipa Keya (B i M), i prihvatljiva cijena su ono što ovaj disk čini poželjnim. Na domaćem mu tržištu nismo našli cijenu, a na njemačkom se ona za ovaj 120 GB model kreće od oko 50 €, što je vrlo konkurentno s obzirom da je riječ o NVMe uređaju.