Wednesday, November 23rd 2022
Announcing the TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database
We are announcing the latest addition to our PC enthusiast databases, the new TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database. Modeled along the lines of our immensely popular GPU Database, CPU Database, and hardware Reviews Database, the new SSD Specs Database, curated by Gabriel Ferraz, aims to be a definitive repository of information on solid-state drive (SSD) hardware specs, for all to freely access. Here, you'll find a growing collection of client SSD hardware specs across all relevant form-factors and information. The database also helps you identify multiple hardware revisions of the same SSD model, so you're aware of any bait-and-switch incidents, or vague specs by manufacturers.
The TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database has individual info pages on each capacity variant of an SSD model; besides any hardware variants it may have. You can have quick, actionable information on specs such as controller, NAND flash, DRAM cache, advanced NAND flash specs, interface, protocol, controller hardware specs, and known performance numbers from our testing. We are constantly adding new drives to this database, and you can help us grow, not just by suggesting improvements to the database itself, but for additions to the database, please reach out to the curator on the main page. But for now, enjoy what we've built for you!
TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database
The TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database has individual info pages on each capacity variant of an SSD model; besides any hardware variants it may have. You can have quick, actionable information on specs such as controller, NAND flash, DRAM cache, advanced NAND flash specs, interface, protocol, controller hardware specs, and known performance numbers from our testing. We are constantly adding new drives to this database, and you can help us grow, not just by suggesting improvements to the database itself, but for additions to the database, please reach out to the curator on the main page. But for now, enjoy what we've built for you!
TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database
215 Comments on Announcing the TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database
How will you handle drives that have had component swaps? Like when a manufacturer replaces the flash with a different type without changing the drive's model name?
And yes so far i've found 12 variants from this drive alone hahahah yes you read correctly, not 4 not 5.... 12
Researching SSD's can be a pain in the butt! This will help a lot!
one thing i can think of though, hmm, perhaps the performance Numbers could express both officially claimed by the Manufacturer, as well as actual if there's sufficient Review data. like a sanity check for the Marketing.
could be something as simple as say....and so on for the rest of the performance data. and any other data that has been tested, for that matter, because why not, right. claimed vs observed actual.
The issue is the these IOPS are afaik based on 4K block size at a Queue Depoth of 32, the latter of which is complete bollox for the average consumer.
For example the Samsung 990 pro 1TB looks fantastic with IOPS of 1,200,000/1,550,000 r/w, but the actual IOPS at 4kQD1 is 22000/88000 (90/360MB/s) r/w - www.samsung.com/uk/business/memory-storage/nvme-ssd/990-pro-2tb-nvme-pcie-gen-4-mz-v9p2t0bw/
For day to day use the 990 pro isnt much faster than my old 960 pro @ 4kQD1 of 14000/5000 (on avg. I get 14600/63000 - 60/250MB/s). And the 960 dosent have the drop of in seqeuntial r/w after a few GB has been transfered, unlike the 990.
On a related not found this little site that is usefull for converting IOPS to MB/s - wintelguy.com/iops-mbs-gbday-calc.pl
The 4kQD1 IOPS data is available, so @GabrielLP14 can this be added to the DB..?
So its complicated to compile actual data. We could use our own, but bear in mind that the DB has 1200 SSDs, and TPU has tested what? 300-400 or 500 drives? See the issue? i'd love to add these numbers though the issue is that even the manufacturers don't even list.
Samsung, and Solidigm an Intel(in some cases) do advertise it though.Yes, the issues lies where i've replied above :/
Is there going to be a banner saying "Caveat Emptor Alert: Not the original configuration!" for the SSDs that become bait-and-switch? :D
Second question, is "Latest Known Firmware" a possible field for the entries?
Given that SSDs usually benefit from them and in the case of troublesome releases, to give users a way to understand if they are being impacted by an outdated FW.
Last question (until I remember more), link to the respective manufacturer's tool for managing it...possible?
By the way, the PM961 review i found were using V3 MLC dies (48-Layers 256Gb)
add the string as reported by/to the OS (viewable w/ something like CDI or HWInfo or w/e) somewhere prominent.
this is especially useful as to identifying different models sold as the same SKU (aka bait and switch) since sometimes the vendor actually doesnt bother to fix those.
also the firmware version(s) corresponding to the different models. another thing vendors tend to not fix (if that is possible indeed).
(see screenshot below)
As for the firmware revision, unfortunately some reviews don't even list it, for example, TPU does, but like tom's Hardware which is one i consider one of the best 3 top SSDs reviews in the planet doesn't
as for the firmware, just list those which are known ig? and ask people to submit the missing information - sure it'll take time but thats what building dbs is all about innit
i'll just finish some adjustments and i can implement that in the very close near future, since there are literally over 1200 SSDs
This is the VLO readout of mine:I visually checked the controller to verify that it's using the RTS5765DL.
The Cardea Z330 gives an identical NAND output, except the controller name is different. I also visually checked the controller here as well, RTS5763DL.
Team Group have relabeled the NAND, so it's entirely possible it's prone to change.