After a long period of increase, the price of SSDs finally began to fall in the second half of 2018, and the enthusiasm of users for SSDs is gradually increasing.
In addition to the traditional SATA interface of the AHCI protocol, M.2 with PCI channel and M.2 with NVMe gradually become the market darling. Compared with the AHCI protocol interface, the M.2 interface has a larger bandwidth channel, and the SSD has a larger bandwidth. Read and write speeds go further.
As an old DIY manufacturer, Colorful has gradually enriched its product line these years. In addition to motherboards and graphics cards, the newly developed SSD and memory product lines are also receiving much attention.
Colorful has recently updated the upgraded versions of the CN600 products, the CN600S with 240G and 480G capacities, and the M.2 interface supporting NVMe.
The Rainbow CN600S is designed to be compatible with a variety of motherboards.
Hardware, Both Rainbow CN600S are equipped with Huirong SM2263XT master, self-supporting PCI-E 3.0 x4 channel and the new NVMe 1.3 protocol: The CN600S in my hand has a capacity of 480G, consisting of two flash Intel's 3D TLC NAND particles.
From the perspective of the PCB, the fill-up of the empty solder can increase the capacity to 960G. It should be noted that the Huirong SM2263XT does not support DRAM buffer, so the colorful CN600S uses part of the capacity as a cache.
testing platform:
CPU: Intel Core i5-8500@3.00GHz
Motherboard: MSI B360M-MORTAR
Memory: V-Color 8GBx2 DDR4-3000Mhz C16
Radiator: Limin TS140D
Operating System: Windows 10
Test Software: AS SSD Benchmark 2.0
CrystalDiskMark 6.0.0
TxBENCH 0.9.5 beta
ATTO Disk Benchmark 2.4.7
CrystalDiskINFO 7.5.0
Test Results
↑↑↑AS SSD test
↑↑↑CrystalDiskMark test
↑↑↑TxBENCH test
↑↑↑ATTO Disk Benchmark test
From the results of the control panel test, the performance of the colorful CN600S is almost the same as the official nominal speed. If the game is placed in the hard disk, the performance will be slightly reduced, but the actual decline is small.
In addition, The price of the colorful CN600S is its biggest advantage, 240G price is 399 yuan, 480G price is 699 yuan, It is basically the same as the common SATA solid state drive on the market, but the NVMe interface is the reason for the player to choose it. After all, the performance of the colorful CN600S is even better.
