Compared to the thriving scene of the mobile phone industry, the personal computer industry seems to have had less passion. In recent years, it has felt a little bit like the West.
This may be related to the consumer's buying habits: The personal computer has a longer life cycle, and buying one can often last for four to five years. I think probably no one will change a new computer for a year. It is because of the long update cycle, so everyone Frequently complained about the slow boot time of old computers that used a few years, slow loading of games, slow running programs.
In fact, the performance bottleneck of home computers is often not the processor, but the read and write speed of the hard disk. Re-enabling your old computer to run again is not so troublesome, and sometimes just need to change an SSD as a system disk.
SSDs use flash memory chips as storage media. SSDs can often be up to a dozen times faster than traditional mechanical hard disks. Loading programs and booting can be completed in a matter of seconds. Today we have a colorful SL300 Spring LE spring limited edition SSD. Evaluation, 160GB capacity, unique color matching.
Appearance and Industrial Design
The Colorful SL300 Spring L.E we got was pink, with the front cover displaying the SL300's picture and storage capacity, with the 'seven-colored SSD' on the side and embellished with a rainbow-style underline.
The first feeling of getting a hand is 'light' because the shell of the SL300 is made of aluminum metal. For this reason, the SL300 is slightly better than similar plastic products.
The front of the hard disk is very concise. There are no other elements besides the LOGO and the pattern for decoration. The sticker on the back indicates the model, capacity and origin of the hard disk.
It is worth noting that the SL300 used in this evaluation is an Intel TLC 3D NAND flash memory chip. 3D NAND is a technology that first appeared on high-end solid-state hard disks. Manufacturers invented this to increase NAND capacity and reduce costs. technology.
It is, as its name implies, a three-dimensional stacked NAND. Compared to ordinary NAND, 3D NAND can store more data on the same area, while improving capacity, performance and reliability.
The 3D NAND technology is not used on most of the SSDs in this price range. Therefore, the appearance of the 3D NAND on the SL300 really makes us shine, and it also makes people expect what kind of performance it can have.
So what is the actual performance of the SL300? After we turned off the Windows Write Cache function, we tested it using test software. The computer configuration for testing was as follows:
First use the CrystalDiskMark to test the speed of the SL300 SSD. CrystalDiskMark is an easy-to-use hard disk performance testing software, but the test project is very comprehensive, covering continuous read and write, random read and write performance of 512K and 4KB packets, and 4K random performance with a queue depth of 32.
It can be seen that the sequential read performance of the SL300 can be up to 512MB per second, which is even higher than the official website's advertised 490MB per second. The continuous write peak speed can also reach 478MB per second. The random read/write speed can be described as excellent, almost chasing. Samsung 850EVO.
Then we used the ATTO Disk Benchmark to test the SL300. Compared to the CrystalDiskMark, this software can display the read and write speeds of different data block sizes in a graphical way.
ATTO Disk Benchmark's test results are consistent with CrystalDiskMark's. Continuous write speeds are around 500 MB.
However, although the test data is clear, most people don't have any idea about these cold numbers. You may have the idea of 'how fast is 500MB/s?', so we try to do two tests that are closer to everyday use. .
In Anvil's performance tests, it can be seen that the read speed reaches 508MB/s and the write speed is 452MB/s, which is almost the same as the official nominal speed.
We have installed some large games on the SL300 and some branded mechanical hard drives, including many 3A benchmarks such as the rise of Tomb Raider, and then tested their game read time. The results are as follows:
Not surprisingly, the SL300 easily spiked mechanical hard drives. Each game installed on the SL300 was faster and faster than the mechanical hard disk. The most exaggerated was the Kanbara space program, on machinery. It took a minute and a half to enter the main menu on the hard disk, but it took only 38 seconds on the SL300.
Finally, we conducted Photoshop processing performance tests. As a widely used design software, Photoshop has a higher and higher requirement for the speed of computer hard disks, especially when opening very large documents.
This time we use Photoshop CC 2018 to open a PSD file with a file size of up to 14GB, and record the time required to open the file from the SL300 and the mechanical hard disk, and then compare this data.
In the Photoshop performance test, when opening a giant PSD file, the SL300 SSD only took 274 seconds, while the ordinary hard disk took twice. This gap still has quite obvious differences in experience, especially for those who need to use it every day. For PS designers or artists.
to sum up:
Colorful SL300 is obviously a product with the same excellent price performance and performance. The reading and writing speed of 500MB per second is already the standard of high-end SSD.
From the above tests, it can be seen that SSDs are more capable of the role of system disk than mechanical hard disks. If you also have an old computer that was a few years old, and the operating speed is gradually unable to keep up with the demand, you may wish to try first. One SSD.
Colorful SL300 Spring LE is a limited edition hard drive, pink appearance is very rare, men may feel very delicate, but girls prefer some, 160GB capacity is also sandwiched between 120 and 240GB, more suitable for girls to upgrade Old computer.
