Toshiba OCZ RD400 M.2 NVMe 512 GB Review
Category : Storage
Published by Marc Büchel on 27.05.16
With the OCZ RD400, Toshiba launches an NVMe-SSD for end users. The drive which is lying front of us appears to perform extremely well pumping out up to 2600 MB/s sequentially reading and 1600 MB/s sequentially writing. This definitely makes us wonder how much of that horsepower is available in real life.
Specifications / Delivery
| Model | RD400 128 GB | RD400 256 GB | RD400 512 GB | RD400 1 TB |
| Capacity | 128 GB | 256 GB | 512 GB | 1 TB |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 single-sided | M.2 2280 single-sided | M.2 2280 single-sided | M.2 2280 double-sided |
| Controller | Toshiba TC58NCP070GSB | Toshiba TC58NCP070GSB | Toshiba TC58NCP070GSB | Toshiba TC58NCP070GSB |
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| Endurance | 74 TBW | 148 TBW | 296 TBW | 592 TBW |
| Warranty | 5 Years | 5 Years | 5 Years | 5 Years |
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It’s not been too long that Toshiba acquired OCZ and after two and half years as a subsidiary of the electronics giant OCZ is not a subsidiary of anymore but Toshiba’s enthusiast SSD brand. A quick look at the packaging clearly shows that since now “Toshiba” is printed on the box art as well and it stands in front of “OCZ RD400”. Talking a bit more about the name: if you’ve been following the news you might have picked up that OCZ initially planned to launch die RevoDrive 400 (now RD400) almost a year ago. But apparently that didn’t happen and it looks like Toshiba decided it would be a good idea to kick off the OCZ sub brand having a powerful flagship product in their portfolio.
Diving a bit deeper into the technical aspects of this drive, we find almost no information at all about the controller Toshiba is using on this drive (TC58NCP070GSB). So far it’s being assumed that on the Trion/TR drives, Toshiba decided to rebrand a Phison S10 controller and therefore it could be possible that the OCZ RD400 is also based on a third party controller. In such a case it would be most likely that a Marvell 88SS1093 has been used, which features three cores and eight channels. With the OCZ RD400 Toshiba is the second vendor having a M.2 NVMe SSD in its portfolio. So far only Samsung offered such a product with their 950 Pro and it’s good to see there is finally some much needed competition in this niche. Comparing the offerings from the two vendors only Toshiba offers a 1 Terabyte model for now. Apart from that the OCZ RD400 should be blisteringly fast according to the specifications. What’s also interesting to know about the OCZ RD400 is the fact, that it’s basically the same drive you can find in Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4. In there you find an OEM version, which goes by the name Toshiba XG3 M.2. The only differences between the two drives concern software and warranty. The OCZ RD400 supports “SSD Management Utility” (formerly OCZ SSD Guru) and it also benefits from five year “Advanced Warranty” (formerly Shield Plus). Furthermore there is the option to buy the OCZ RD400 in combination with a PCI Express adapter card. Regarding the SSD Management Utility only cosmetic changes to the user interface have been done, otherwise it’s the same software like OCZ SSD Guru was.
A quick look at the NAND flash memory used on these drives, we see Toshiba is using 15nm chips. Regarding the single-sided models up to 512 GB capacity is possible, whereas the double-sided M.2 drive features 1 Terabyte. Meanwhile the endurance of solid state drives isn’t anything that could be concerning, since recent controllers are capable of carefully allocating resources and therefore the vendors became increasingly confident regarding their TBW (Terabytes Written) figures they communicate – as you can see in the table above.
Impressions
How do we test?
Testenvironment
| Models | |
ADATA S511 60 GB
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ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB
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ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB
|
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Corsair Force 3 120 GB
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Corsair Force GS 240 GB
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Corsair Force GT 120 GB
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Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB
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Crucial M500 480 GB
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Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB |
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Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB
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Intel SSD 520 180 GB
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Intel SSD 520 240 GB
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| Intel SSD 750 1.2 TB PCIe |
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| Intel SSD 750 400 GB PCIe | |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB | |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | n/A |
Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB
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| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB |
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Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB
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Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB
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Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB
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| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | |
OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
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| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD
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| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD | |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | |
| OCZ Trion 100 960 GB | |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | |
OCZ Vector 150 240 GB
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OCZ Vector 180 480 GB
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OCZ Vector 180 960 GB |
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OCZ Vector 256 GB
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| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB | |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB | |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | |
| OCZ Vertex 460 240 GB | |
Plextor M5Pro 256 GB
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| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | |
Samsung 840Evo 120 GB |
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Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA
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Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
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Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB
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Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
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Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
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Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
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| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | |
SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB
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| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB
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| Toshiba OCZ RD400 512 GB | |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | |
| Toshiba Q300Pro 256 GB | |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | n/A |
iozone
iozone3 is a benchmark suite for storage solutions which natively runs under Windows/Linux.We are testing the throughput rates/IOPS with different block sizes using the following commands:
KByte/s
- iozone -Rb test4k.xls -i0 -i1 -i2 -+n -r 4k -s4g -t32
- iozone -Rb test256k.xls -i0 -i1 -i2 -+n -r 256k -s4g -t32
iops
- iozone -Rb test4ko.xls -i0 -i1 -i2 -+n -r 4k -s4g -t32 -O
KByte/s, Sequential write
| Sequential write | Throughput 256 KByte Block Size |
| Toshiba OCZ RD400 512 GB | 1'586'048 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 1.2 TB | 1'361'466 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | 1'291'486 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 400 GB | 1'064'310 |
| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB | 1'018'023 |
| Toshiba Q300 Pro 256 GB RAID0 | 1'006'911 |
| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | 928'417 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | 771'043 |
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD | 750'096 |
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | 694'586 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | 680'372 |
| OCZ Vector 180 960 GB
|
537'432 |
| Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB
|
536'082 |
| OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
535'560 |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | 534'455 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB |
534'262 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB
|
534'058 |
| OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
533'969 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB | 533'672 |
| Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
|
531'027 |
| Toshiba Q300 Pro 256 GB RAID0 | 523'511 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB | 522'897 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB
|
522'613 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | 522'212 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | 519'430 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB
|
519'190 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB
|
519'104 |
| OCZ Trion 100 960 GB | 517'599 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | 517'290 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB
|
516'603 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB
|
515'218 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | 513'309 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB |
512'676 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB
|
512'628 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB
|
511'805 |
OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB
|
510'245 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB
|
507'743 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB |
505'669 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | 504'589 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB
|
502'272 |
| Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
|
500'153 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB
|
499'239 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB
|
491'205 |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | 480'603 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | 469'784 |
| Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
462'097 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB
|
457'001 |
| Plextor M5Pro 256 GB | 444'122 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB |
439'829 |
| Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
|
436'531 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | 434'466 |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | 421'139 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | 405'911 |
| Plextor M6V 256 GB | 354'926 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB
|
343'488 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB
|
328'922 |
| Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
324'238 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | 321'474 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | 314'144 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | 307'781 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | 271'696 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | 266'401 |
| Samsung 840Evo 120 GB
|
219'159 |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | 199'001 |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB | 80'719 |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | 77'257 |
KByte/s, Sequential Read
| Sequential Read | Throughput 256 KByte Block Size |
| Toshiba OCZ RD400 512 GB | 2'620'958 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 1.2 TB | 2'337'700 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 400 GB | 2'156'208 |
| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | 1'868'569 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | 1'460'560 |
| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB | 1'006'809 |
| Toshiba Q300 Pro 256 GB RAID0 | 983'758 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | 857'972 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | 806'858 |
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD | 729'929 |
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD
|
716'357 |
| OCZ Trion 100 960 GB | 559'075 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB
|
553'400 |
| Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
|
548'836 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB |
547'188 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB
|
545'843 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB
|
545'656 |
| Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB
|
545'353 |
| OCZ Vector 180 960 GB
|
544'820 |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | 544'742 |
| Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
|
544'499 |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | 543'852 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB
|
543'650 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB
|
542'606 |
| OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
542'453 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB
|
542'442 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 | 542'075 |
| Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
|
541'626 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB
|
541'613 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB |
541'542 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB
|
541'086 |
| OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
540'973 |
| Toshiba Q300 Pro 256 GB | 539'071 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | 539'056 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | 539'754 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB
|
539'648 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB
|
537'745 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB
|
537'560 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 | 536'605 |
| Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
536'542 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | 534'988 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | 534'392 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB | 534'241 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | 534'154 |
| Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
532'816 |
| Plextor M5Pro 256 GB | 530'606 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB
|
530'584 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB
|
529'995 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB
|
529'520 |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | 529'462 |
| Plextor M6V 256 GB | 526'912 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB |
525'278 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB |
521'930 |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | 520'767 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | 516'479 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB
|
510'372 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB
|
507'743 |
| Samsung 840Evo 120 GB
|
504'587 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | 498'223 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB
|
490'777 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | 441'396 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | 440'052 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | 438'465 |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB | 247'759 |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | 240'404 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | 209'723 |
KByte/s, Random write
| Random write | Throughput 4 KByte Block Size |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 1.2 TB | 1'025'236 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | 756'658 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 400 TB | 630'013 |
| Toshiba OCZ RD400 512 GB | 508'788 |
| Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB
|
412'837 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | 382'970 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | 362'053 |
| Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
|
360'357 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB |
356'006 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | 354'573 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB
|
354'246 |
| Toshiba Q300 Pro 256 GB RAID0 | 348'526 |
| Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
|
346'184 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB |
346'003 |
| Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
344'730 |
| Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
|
343'726 |
| OCZ Trion 100 960 GB | 342'969 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | 341'478 |
| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | 334'795 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | 325'007 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | 324'023 |
| Toshiba Q300 Pro 256 GB | 308'698 |
| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB | 300'308 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB
|
301'486 |
| Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
299'848 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB | 292'401 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB
|
287'255 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | 286'949 |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | 285'893 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB
|
285'558 |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | 285'407 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB
|
284'858 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB
|
283'794 |
| OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
283'409 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB
|
282'578 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB
|
280'556 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB
|
279'967 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB
|
276'859 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | 275'499 |
| Plextor M6V 256 GB | 270'615 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB
|
264'870 |
| OCZ Vector 180 960 GB
|
263'409 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | 262'687 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB |
262'005 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB
|
255'988 |
| Plextor M5Pro 256 GB | 254'918 |
| OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
254'367 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB |
253'269 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB
|
252'045 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB
|
244'150 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | 242'683 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB |
237'082 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB
|
225'092 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB |
226'394 |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | 224'059 |
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD | 213'027 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | 200'308 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | 156'814 |
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD
|
156'644 |
| Samsung 840Evo 120 GB
|
148'166 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | 132'997 |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | 117'538 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | 95'808 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | 94'447 |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB | 62'388 |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | 48'194 |
KByte/s, Random read
| Random read | Throughput 4 KByte Block Size |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 1.2 TB | 975'428 |
| Toshiba OCZ RD400 512 GB | 888'580 |
| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | 871'877 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | 640'327 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 400 GB | 575'665 |
| Toshiba Q300 Pro 256 GB RAID0 | 511'644 |
| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB | 443'069 |
| Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
400'192 |
| Plextor M5Pro 256 GB | 392'851 |
| Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
|
390'689 |
| Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
384'527 |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | 382'724 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB
|
381'510 |
| OCZ Vector 180 960 GB
|
380'211 |
| Toshiba Q300 Pro 256 GB | 373'901 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | 373'590 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | 368'728 |
| Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
|
368'001 |
| OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
366'031 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | 364'987 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB
|
359'009 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | 357'112 |
| Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB
|
353'123 |
| Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
|
349'781 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | 348'881 |
| Samsung 840Evo 120 GB
|
348'724 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB
|
346'164 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB | 337'922 |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | 336'133 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB |
328'627 |
| Plextor M6V 256 GB | 318'023 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | 310'109 |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | 309'467 |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | 299'605 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB
|
283'794 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | 255'743 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | 231'999 |
| OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
226'958 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB
|
212'409 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | 171'179 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB |
171'684 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB
|
168'648 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | 167'922 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB
|
163'408 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | 151'097 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB |
149'622 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | 142'942 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB
|
141'910 |
| OCZ Trion 100 960 GB | 135'611 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | 126'603 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | 123'553 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB
|
102'038 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB
|
102'031 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB
|
98'387 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB
|
96'042 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB
|
95'928 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB
|
93'316 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB
|
89'121 |
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD | 87'188 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB
|
84'113 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB
|
81'160 |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB | 58'647 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB
|
51'187 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | 47'918 |
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD
|
43'003 |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | 30'287 |
IOPS, Random write
| Random write | IOPS 4 KByte Block Size |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 1.2 TB | 260'904 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | 189'164 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 400 GB | 157'503 |
| Toshiba OCZ RD400 512 GB | 128'219 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | 95'782 |
| Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
|
91'053 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | 90'519 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB |
88'642 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB
|
88'537 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | 88'460 |
| Toshiba Q300 Pro 256 GB RAID0 | 87'242 |
| Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
|
86'634 |
| Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
|
85'813 |
| Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
85'792 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | 85'373 |
| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | 83'322 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB |
81'175 |
| Toshiba Q300 Pro 256 GB | 77'876 |
| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB | 77'077 |
| Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
76'721 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB
|
75'577 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB | 74'983 |
| OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
74'389 |
| Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB
|
72'000 |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | 71'883 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | 71'470 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB
|
71'338 |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | 71'323 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB
|
71'227 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB
|
71'180 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB
|
70'944 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | 70'031 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB
|
70'016 |
| OCZ Vector 180 960 GB
|
69'998 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB
|
69'760 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB
|
69'108 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | 67'339 |
| Plextor M6V 256 GB | 66'608 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB
|
66'107 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB
|
65'817 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB |
65'714 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB
|
64'446 |
| OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
64'244 |
| Plextor M5Pro 256 GB | 63'620 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB
|
63'553 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB
|
61'302 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | 60'579 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB |
58'604 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB
|
56'749 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB
|
56'017 |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | 56'014 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB
|
53'719 |
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD | 53'618 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | 52'126 |
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD
|
39'744 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | 39'192 |
| Samsung 840Evo 120 GB
|
38'077 |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | 34'314 |
| OCZ Trion 100 960 GB | 33'348 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | 32'772 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | 23'799 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | 23'640 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | 22'192 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | 20'492 |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB | 15'434 |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | 6'297 |
IOPS, Random read
| Random read | IOPS 4 KByte Block Size |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 1.2 TB | 247'587 |
| Toshiba OCZ RD400 512 GB | 222'376 |
| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | 220'703 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | 160'832 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 400 GB | 143'916 |
| Toshiba Q300 Pro 256 GB RAID0 | 127'333 |
| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB | 111'097 |
| Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB
|
100'198 |
| Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
|
99'919 |
| Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
99'476 |
| Plextor M5Pro 256 GB | 98'600 |
| Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
96'308 |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | 95'811 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB
|
95'614 |
| Toshiba Q300 Pro 256 GB | 93'875 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | 93'251 |
| Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
|
92'101 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | 91'642 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | 92'288 |
| OCZ Vector 180 960 GB
|
92'275 |
| OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
92'001 |
| Samsung 840Evo 120 GB
|
91'598 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB |
89'692 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | 89'630 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB
|
89'585 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | 87'654 |
| Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
|
87'544 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB |
86'622 |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | 85'823 |
| OCZ Trion 100 960 GB | 85'274 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB | 84'561 |
| Plextor M6V 256 GB | 79'276 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | 77'637 |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | 77'119 |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | 74'901 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | 63'925 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | 57'856 |
| OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
55'090 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB
|
53'477 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB
|
51'835 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB
|
51'373 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB |
46'647 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | 42'308 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB
|
41'917 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | 41'813 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | 37'813 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB |
37'403 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB
|
36'550 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | 35'295 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | 32'403 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | 31'442 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB
|
25'822 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB
|
25'036 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB
|
24'807 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB
|
24'473 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB
|
24'338 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB
|
22'278 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB
|
21'443 |
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD | 21'853 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB
|
20'718 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB
|
20'438 |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB | 14'606 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB
|
12'963 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | 11'980 |
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD
|
10'833 |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | 5'349 |
Throughput 1 Thread (QD1)
| 1T Throughput (KB/s) | ||||||||
| 4k | 8k | 16k | 32k | 64k | 128k | 256k | 512k | |
| Seq write | 781886 | 936395 | 951713 | 971613 | 980526 | 973551 | 950815 | 1005883 |
| Seq read | 742954 | 784409 | 887869 | 872398 | 951857 | 1091949 | 1197804 | 1324266 |
| Rand write | 121407 | 235429 | 423098 | 614342 | 908722 | 1098376 | 1217195 | 941617 |
| Rand read | 31270 | 55122 | 91957 | 182941 | 285952 | 485042 | 657801 | 807298 |
Throughput 4 Threads (QD4)
| 4T Throughput (KB/s) | ||||||||
| 4k | 8k | 16k | 32k | 64k | 128k | 256k | 512k | |
| Seq write | 1001920 | 1045429 | 984243 | 1074665 | 1082517 | 1151396 | 1089711 | 1017300 |
| Seq read | 1638823 | 1688342 | 1821263 | 1850700 | 1942146 | 2277597 | 2361586 | 2362913 |
| Rand write | 552605 | 971546 | 1357378 | 1578196 | 1367254 | 1497647 | 1566174 | 1544035 |
| Rand read | 136475 | 229817 | 398468 | 675988 | 1048405 | 1437803 | 1558700 | 1787351 |
Throughput 8 Threads (QD8)
| 8T Throughput (KB/s) | ||||||||
| 4k | 8k | 16k | 32k | 64k | 128k | 256k | 512k | |
| Seq write | 1036157 | 1119157 | 1106172 | 1097818 | 1107502 | 1239248 | 1037971 | 1092075 |
| Seq read | 1641371 | 1741336 | 1786147 | 1882773 | 1952239 | 2189610 | 2282887 | 2392491 |
| Rand write | 535273 | 867566 | 1341508 | 1514495 | 1522389 | 1534229 | 1546402 | 1588615 |
| Rand read | 283644 | 442584 | 721838 | 1122838 | 1525427 | 1744992 | 1929136 | 2068674 |
Throughput 16 Threads (QD16)
| 16T Throughput (KB/s) | ||||||||
| 4k | 8k | 16k | 32k | 64k | 128k | 256k | 512k | |
| Seq write | 1063490 | 1000404 | 1229520 | 982059 | 1122832 | 1024245 | 1048963 | 1124947 |
| Seq read | 1434365 | 1613706 | 1810949 | 1598583 | 1613156 | 1838101 | 2266190 | 2330318 |
| Rand write | 502212 | 910787 | 1320142 | 1537874 | 1482744 | 1380710 | 1399370 | 2133827 |
| Rand read | 537128 | 799518 | 1181787 | 1514542 | 1457180 | 1499325 | 1954025 | 1462117 |
Throughput 32 Threads (QD32)
| 32T Throughput (KB/s) | ||||||||
| 4k | 8k | 16k | 32k | 64k | 128k | 256k | 512k | |
| Seq write | 1069391 | 1035737 | 1054881 | 1043280 | 1065558 | 966798 | 1082283 | 1126801 |
| Seq read | 1189768 | 1291979 | 1347052 | 1382287 | 1450701 | 1994413 | 2620958 | 2614949 |
| Rand write | 508788 | 898060 | 455551 | 1473488 | 1567470 | 1354494 | 1557057 | 1605223 |
| Rand read | 888580 | 1076539 | 1250685 | 1236076 | 1332771 | 1571091 | 1580537 | 1627586 |
Conclusion
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With their OCZ RD400 M.2 series Toshiba created a new SSD, which addresses enthusiasts and professionals. In our opinion Toshiba succeeded in releasing a new high-performance, enthusiast-grade SSD positioning OCZ as a sub brand and not an individual company anymore. All new NVMe drives these days simply raise the bar in terms of performance to another level and bring the entire enthusiast market a big step forward. Throughput rates in the region of 2'600 MB/s are about four times as much then what’s achievable with SATA-III, which puts these NVMe drives in a entirely different league.
In terms of raw performance our test drive was able to score 1586 MB/s sequential write and 2'620 MB/s sequential read throughput. When it comes to 4K IOPS we measured 127'200 IOPS regarding random read and 222'100 regarding random write. The performance of this drive is simply insane, outperforming the SATA-III standard by a factor of four regarding sequential read. On another note we also had a look at performance varying queue depth as you can see on page 10. In the case of random read performance at QD1 we see 7'800 IOPS and when it comes to random write we measured 30'400 IOPS.
What's always worth mentioning with OCZ drive is their warranty plan. Meanwhile, as a sub brand of Toshiba the it's called Advanced Warranty and not Shield Plus anymore. The service remains the same. In the event of a drive failure Toshiba will pay for the shipment back and replace the drive without hesitation and the warranty plan lasts for five years.
Today the OCZ RD400 M.2 is available with 128 Gigabyte, 256 Gigabyte, 512 Gigabyte and 1 Terabyte capacity and the MSRP is without PCI Express adapter card are 109.99 US-Dollar, 169.99 US-Dollar, 309.99 US-Dollar and 739.99 US-Dollar respectively. If you'd like to buy the version including the adpater card, you'll have to pay an addiotal 20 US-Dollar. Those drives are definitely not cheap, but considering what you get the price is adequate. The performance is just mindblowing and the NVMe standard helps pushing the boudries of how fast SSDs can be. Should you be an enthusiast or a professional looking for a fast M.2 drive, then we can recommend these drive without a shadow of a doubt.
