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An nameless reader shares a report: StorageReview went by means of the outstanding journey of testing a $3 SSD from AliExpress. The Goldenfir-brand SSD was reportedly given to the storage web site by one in all its Discord customers for testing. The excellent news is that Goldenfir is definitely utilizing an SSD controller for its NAND drive. The controller is a Yeestor YS9083XT, which the Chinese language firm introduced as a SATA3.2 controller in 2019. […] StorageReview examined the drive by placing it right into a Lenovo SR635 1U server with an AMD Epyc 7742 processor and 512GB of DDR4-3200 RAM. StorageReview additionally determined to, admittedly “unfairly,” put it up in opposition to Kingston’s DC600M entry-level enterprise SATA drive. You’ll be able to guess what occurs subsequent. With a 64GB file and the CrystalDiskMark benchmark, StorageReview reported that the “Kingston drive completed all the check earlier than this piece of turd [the $3 drive] may even construct its check.” With the VDBench workload benchmark filling up all the drive, the $3 drive hit a wall at round 15,500 IOPS when operating the 4K random learn check, in comparison with the Kingston drive’s roughly 80,000. A budget SSD in the end completed the check at 13,000 IOPS and 10,225 ms, in comparison with the Kingston’s 78,000 IOPS and 1,630 ms.
