Subj : Real-life test of the worlds cheapest SSD was so bad, a hard driv
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Oct 10 2023 05:00:05

Real-life test of the worlds cheapest SSD was so bad, a hard drive would 
probably beat it  which is what the reviewer actually did and broke the poor 
thing in two

Date:
Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:38:33 +0000

Description:
The $3 Goldenfir 2.5-inch SATA SSD feels and runs like a relic from the 
distant past

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With Amazon Prime Day now here, youre likely to be considering all kinds of 
deals for the cheapest SSDs out there right now. But just because somethings 
cheap, that doesnt mean its worth buying  as the Goldenfir SSD proves. 

This $3 SSD  available on AliExpress  has a 120GB capacity and may seem far 
too good to be true. But thats because it is, according to Storage Review , 
which analyzed its specifications and tested the device extensively. 

Goldenfir claims it offers read speeds of 550MB/s and write speeds of up to 
510MB/s, thanks to its YS9083XT SSD controller  which supports multiple types 
of NAND Flash memory and a variety of form factors. The Goldenfir SSD is, 
specifically a 2.5-inch SATA SSD. Goldenfirs $3 SSD is the opposite of a 
must-buy 

Its reported speeds, according to the manufacturer, arent super slow, but 
theyre nothing like the fastest SSDs out there. In theory, at least, theyre 
actually more akin to speeds recorded when the first consumer-grade SSDs hit 
the market. But how does that work in practice? 

Storage Review tested the SSD with a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 server, fitted 
with an AMD 7742 CPU and 512GB DDR4 RAM , and compared it with the Kingston 
DC600M  an industry-leading enterprise storage device. 

The drive registered a score of 554MB/s and 518MB/s for reads and writes 
respectively on CrystalDiskMark  which is not bad at all considering the 
Kingston DC600M SSD scored 557MB/s and 541MB/s. 

But the catch is the benchmarking software may have generated an inflated 
score due to the way it was configured (it leveraged host-side cache). Other 
metrics produced awful results, and the device even snapped in half during 
testing. 

In 4K random read and write benchmarking, the Goldenfir severely 
underperformed  and demonstrated terrible latency, which was backed up by 64K 
sequential tests. 

In the former testing, it hit 13,000 IOPS with 10,225ms latency for reads, 
while Kingston hit 780,000 IOPs and 1,630ms latency. For writes, it was even 
worse, barely creeping beyond 5,000 IOPs and peaking at 14,000ms latency. 

This pattern continued, with the Goldenfir even producing abysmal results 
against other budget SSDs. The $33 Intel 670p 2TB Gen3 SSD, for example, hit 
a peak of 473,000 IOPS at 264ms for the 4K random reads test. More from 
TechRadar PRo Ahead of the big day, check out our roundup of the 30 best 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/real-life-test-of-the-worlds-cheapest-ssd-was-so
-bad-a-hard-drive-would-probably-beat-it-which-is-what-the-reviewer-actually-d
id-and-broke-the-poor-thing-in-two


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