As a veteran graphics card manufacturer in China, Colorful's SSD product line has a great deal of success this year. Various new products continue to be released. It has just released SL500 960GB (SATA), CN600S 240/480GB (NVMe M.2), and now brings the new Boost series. Capacity up to 1TB.
This SSD complete product model is 'SL500 1TB Boost ', According to the colorful past SSD naming approach, SL said that the use of SATA interface, 500 represents capacity, Boost should highlight the new main high-end high-performance.
The new product has changed the consistent black appearance of the Colorful SSD. Has become a silver style, stainless steel surface wire drawing process, base is aluminum alloy die casting, weight is enough.
Internally, it is a full-size PCB that is rarely seen in the market today. It has a yellow tantalum capacitor, which is common on servers and industrial grade products. It has better electrical performance.
The main control is Hui Rong SMI2246EN, and the flash memory is from Intel's original 3D MLC, code-named L06B. Nowadays, TLC is popular, QLC can be said to be quite 'luxury', and there is also a 1GB DDR3 cache.
From the back, the PCB is Immersion gold craft , It can ensure the stable electrical performance and effectively prevent corrosion.
In terms of performance, Colorful still insists that it does not publish theoretical reading and writing indicators, but looks at the actual running points.
The AS SSD Benchmark has a sustained read speed of about 520MB/s, and a sustained write speed of about 420MB/s. , As a SATA product is already quite high.
H2testw read and write simulation test, The average write speed exceeds 350MB/s, which takes 46 minutes to write.
HD Tune Pro reading test is stable at about 460MB/s There is no speed drop.
We know that the erase life of MLC flash memory is longer than TLC, usually up to 3,000 times, and that MLC writes do not need to simulate SLC, and also have very good write performance. This is also the key reason that we are more interested in MLC. Just try it.
Copy 800GB file for continuous writing, stable speed Close to 380MB/s.
800GB has been written and 150GB of free space remains.
Test the AS SSD Benchmark again. There is almost no change in speed!
Continue to copy and write, the speed can still be stable at around 360MB/s This, however, is not comparable to TLC anyway, the latter can only be used in the front part of the capacity through the simulation of SLC thick high writing speed, once the remaining space is limited, it will emerge the prototype.
The official suggested retail price for the Colorful SL500 1TB Boost is $1,599 and will be available in the near future.
