PC circle recently popular saying: 'This year, the most expensive is not a hard disk, but the disk. ' Want to take into account the price, capacity and speed, then Ao Teng memory + mechanical hard drive is the best solution.
With the increasing capacity of video, photos, games and other documents, the hard disk capacity in the hands of PC users is becoming more and more difficult. Continuous hard disk expansion becomes necessary. However, even for desktop computers, the hard disk space is quite limited. You have to leave at least one disk for the SSD.
Therefore, in order to seek a better balance between speed and capacity, the most ideal solution is to be able to lower the cost of SSDs to the level of mechanical hard drives. However, the reality is that today a regular brand, 1TB capacity SSD in regular channels The price is at least 2,000 yuan.
Why choose Ao Teng memory?
Recently, the author encountered such a problem. The hard disk space in the desktop computer is full. The storage space of 4 3TB mechanical hard disks is becoming more and more tight. The capacity of an M.2 solid-state system hard disk and a 256GB solid-state software hard disk is also insufficient. Before using the new game to download it, you have to consider removing or migrating the original game to another disk. This is not easy to use. Moreover, due to repeated reading and writing for a long time, the speed of the two SSDs is not as fast as it was when you first bought it. Therefore, the idea of fully upgrading storage was born.
At first, the author considered directly buying large-capacity SSDs. However, as mentioned before, 1TB SSDs are all over 2,000 yuan, and the cost is too high. After some entanglement, I decided to choose the 8TB mechanical hard disk + 32GB EXT.ON memory solution. Taking into account the capacity and speed, the cost is low, equivalent to build an 8TB 'solid state drive' environment.
1500 yuan, with 8TB space, but also able to enjoy more than 800MB / s read speed. The original author's chassis in a M.2 disk SSD +1 SATA disk SSD capacity is only 512GB, replace the proud Teng memory + mechanical hard disk program, the system, the software response speed changes little, but the total capacity of 8TB, a unit brought about by the disk capacity is significantly more than impressive. Finally, I still share with you the Aoteng memory installation, Activation, as well as the actual performance test of the '8TB solution' that the author has established.
Aoteng memory installation and activation
Let's start with installation and activation. The author personally uses the 8TB mechanical hard disk + Ao Teng to replace the solid state hard disk, so you have to re-do the system. Fortunately, all the hard disks are unplugged for redistribution. I first put the Aoteng memory into the motherboard. On the M.2 interface, connect the 8TB hard disk to the SATA port, and then install the operating system for the new solution.
In the system installation interface, you can see 8TB hard disk and 32GB Ao Teng memory (available for 27.3GB)
After installing the operating system into the system, install the pre-downloaded Aoten memory driver (download here) into the system as shown below:
After installing the driver application, enter the AOpen Memory Control interface. You can see the status bar below the status bar. It shows the status of the Audone memory and the hard disk. After clicking the 'Enable' button, you can activate Ao Teng memory.
Authentic memory installation and activation steps are very simple. Follow the driver software and click Next.
This will prompt you to erase the data on the Aurora Memory Module. If you did not use AOpen Memory before the hard disk is used, click here to continue, otherwise copy the data and then perform the erase operation.
It will take a long time to activate and use it for the first time. After seeing the interface below, it means that Ao Teng memory has been activated. Click 'Restart' to restart the system.
AOpen's memory is very convenient to open and disable. It can be operated directly in the control interface. However, whether it is enabled or disabled, it is necessary to restart the system to take effect.
Ao Teng memory + mechanical hard disk random access test
If you don't have AOTON Memory, the random access performance of the 8TB mechanical hard disk I purchased is as follows:
1 mechanical hard disk random access performance test
5 mechanical hard disk random access performance tests
1 Ego Memory + Mechanical Hard Disk Random Access Performance Test
You can see that the 512-byte, 4-KB, and 64-KB data transfers are basically all at 70 IOPS. Let's look at the random access conditions of the AOpen Memory + mechanical hard disk storage scheme:
5 AMT Memory + Mechanical Hard Disk Random Access Performance Test
The performance of Random Access Memory + mechanical hard disk's random access performance is not much different from that of a single mechanical hard disk, but after many tests, it will find that its performance is far beyond the performance of a single mechanical hard disk. This is because Ao Teng Memory is a very intelligent cache, which can accelerate the user's commonly used software. For example, the author usually work with Photoshop, may be slower in the proud open environment for the first time, but after each open will have a more rapid response.
Aoteng memory + mechanical hard disk read speed test
In addition, the author also tested the read speed of 32GB Ao Teng memory +8TB mechanical hard disk, you can see its performance and midrange standard M.2 SSD has a fight, the author used the original Toshiba M.2 SSD read performance It is 1500MB/s, but its capacity is only 256GB. After replacing it with Auten Memory, the capacity reaches 8TB, and the reading speed is 1265MB/s (5 read and write tests are performed). There is no difference in experience.
Ao Teng memory is a more cost-effective solution
Before I contacted the AoTeng memory, the author would like everyone else to use the SSD storage system and software when it is time to choose a storage solution. The mechanical hard disk is used for data storage. However, the price of the large-capacity SSD is weighed, and the chassis hard disk position is weighed. After the situation, I decided to try Ao Teng memory with a large-capacity mechanical hard drive program.
The actual use found that the total cost of 1,500 yuan to build this set of 8TB 'Solid State Drive' program, taking into account the capacity and speed, far more cost-effective than conventional solid-state hard drive + mechanical hard drive solutions.
