Right this moment we’re trying on the Fanxiang S880 2TB SSD. That is the second Fanxiang drive that I’ve reviewed, after not too long ago looking at their S770 drive. Till not too long ago I had by no means heard of Fanxiang, till Patrick bumped into a few their SSDs as a part of his fanless firewall equipment sequence. The complete firm title is SHENZHEN FANXIANG INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO, LTD, and as you would possibly collect from the title this product is made in China. Just like the S770, we’re this drive due to its mixture of compelling worth and since it has proven up on the market within the wild. We at the moment are seeing these drives on Amazon at actually stable costs for the capabilities and capability. Additionally, virtually no person else is reviewing these drives so we wished to have some protection for the model.
Fanxiang S880 2TB NVMe SSD
In contrast to the S770, the S880 doesn’t include a heatsink. Nonetheless, it does include the tiny screwdriver and M.2 screw. I wouldn’t have an image of them, however they’re within the field!
As for the drive itself, the Fanxiang S880 2TB is available in a single-sided M.2 2280 (80mm) type issue.
The S880 sports activities a Maxio MAP1602 controller, which I’ve seen solely as soon as earlier than on the Predator GM7. Per my diagnostic utilities, the NAND is YMTC 232-layer TLC. The YMTC NAND was forward of its time when introduced, a lot in order that the corporate is blacklisted by the US.
This can be a DRAM-less drive, so regardless of the next mannequin quantity than the S770 that will usually point out the S880 is a lower-end machine.
As a single-sided drive, the again of the Fanxiang S880 has nothing however a label.
Fanxiang S880 SSD Specs
The Fanxiang S880 is available in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities.
Just like the S770, I used to be unable to seek out this drive listed on Fanxiang’s web site. Because of this, this spec sheet comes from the Amazon itemizing.
Per the specs within the Amazon itemizing, the 2TB mannequin of the S880 has an identical sequential learn and write efficiency to the S770 at 7300 MB/s and 6800 MB/s respectively. These are pretty top-tier amongst Gen4 SSDs, and specifically, could be very performant for a DRAM-less drive. 1400 TBW endurance is definitely respectable, and a 5-year guarantee is the trade customary. In fact, I’ve my doubts in regards to the guarantee if I can’t even discover a spec sheet for the drive, so I’ll take the guarantee length with a grain of salt.
CrystalDiskInfo may give us some primary details about the SSD and confirms we’re working at PCIe 4.0 x4 speeds utilizing NVMe 1.4.
Take a look at System Configuration
We’re utilizing the next configuration for this take a look at:
- Motherboard: MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (12C/24T)
- RAM: 2x 16GB DDR5-6000 UDIMMs
Our testing makes use of the Fanxiang S880 2TB because the boot drive for the system, put in within the M.2_1 slot on the motherboard. This slot helps as much as PCIe Gen 5 x4. The drive is stuffed to 85% capability with knowledge, after which some is deleted, leaving round 60% used house on the amount.
Subsequent, we’re going to get into our efficiency testing.
