but it does happen that it is higher in some
instances as well. As stated earlier, G.Skill
stipulates symmetrical numbers for the
Phoenix Blade in sequential data access,
but that is not what the results here depict.
In general writes were slower, but that
is relative as we are talking about write
speeds above 1.1GiB/s. No matter how
you slice that kind of performance, it is
incredibly fast. Worth noting here, even
though not represented in the benchmarks
is that, copying a folder to another one
on this drive is very quick. For instance
copying a 120GiB Steam folder to another
one is done in six minutes, 57 seconds.
That is ridiculously quick, especially given
that the Steam folder in question had over
60,000 files which make it near impossible
for the drive to reach those sequential read
and write speeds.
Again this is not something you’ll be
doing often but it is worth noting that the
performance is there be it with small or
large files. The only downside to this drive
is that it is not an NVMe drive, but that is
again. It isn’t cheap by any stretch of the
imagination but the performance is top
notch and it is because of its blistering
performance that it makes for a viable
alternative to the INTEL 750 1.2TiB drive,
especially if you do not need the capacity
just yet.
Either way, this is a great drive and one
that is worth picking up at this current
price. It may fall