And today's Micron's Micron P5 Plus 1T solid-state drive, which is evaluated by our evaluation room, should be regarded as Micron's first civilian-grade SSD product that applies 176-layer 3D flash memory chips, let's take a look at this SSD SSD.
What is Micron's 176-layer 3D flash?
Before reviewing the Crucial P5 Plus 1T SSD, let's talk about the advantages of micron's 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory. Among the current solid-state drives and devices using 3D flash memory chips, most of the flash memory chips used are 96 layers to 128 layer specifications, and the SSD solid-state drives as PC storage devices mostly use 128 layer flash memory chips as memory chips.
The new generation of Micron 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory chip cell structure uses a dual 88-layer stack to form a 176-layer NAND, while the previous generation of 128-layer chips only uses a dual 64-layer stack design. The chip's BEL and CuA interconnect contacts adopt the relevant layout specifications with the 128 layer, only increasing to 10.6 μm in the height of the chip's vertical channel VC holes, while the size of the 3D NAND unit remains at 0.02 μ㎡, while the cell cell volume drops slightly to 1.12x 104 μm due to the small gate spacing.
These technological innovations in hardware have given Micron 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips more powerful performance support, such as larger total read and write volumes, smaller chip sizes, and lower power consumption.
The Yredia P5 Plus 1T SSD is out of the box
The Yreida P5 Plus, which can be known by name, is an upgraded version of Inlanda's flagship model P5 at the time of SSD PCIe3.0, and is also an M.2-sizeD with PCIe 4.0x4 interface.
The outer packaging design of The Ylenta P5 Plus takes dark blue as the main color, the Crucial Yreida text brand LOGO is presented in sky blue and white color blocks, and the "P5 Plus" model name of the white font is particularly prominent in the dark blue background color, and then with decorative elements such as sky blue bars, emerald green twill stripes and white multi-layer lines, it drives the visual effect of the sense of speed.
The back of the package is a multi-Chinese to explain the features and descriptions of the SSD SSD, and of course, there is an anti-counterfeiting label containing product capacity labels and information QR codes.
The M.2 SSD of the P5 Plus series has three capacity specifications of 500GB, 1TB and 2TB, and our evaluation room has obtained the 1TB capacity specification version of the 1TB capacity of the Ylredt P5 Plus, and 1TB is also a specification capacity that is quite popular in both desktop computers and mobile laptops and has a considerable number of users and needs.
The Yreuda P5 Plus 1T is designed with the standard M.2 2280 specification and can accommodate most of today's desktop computer motherboards and some laptop platforms that offer M.2 2280 mounting card slots.
Like many positioning high-end or flagship products, The Indydia P5 Plus 1T uses an all-black color PCB substrate on the PCB substrate, which increases the applicability of the SSD platform due to the single-sided component layout design, there will be no trouble picking the board to pick the platform, and the heat dissipation performance is also better.
The front of the soldered component is printed with the Thermal Sticker of the English brand name and series name of YLR, while the back of the uninstructed component is posted with two thermal insulation stickers with specifications and identification codes, which can provide a very clear understanding of the relevant performance of the YLR P5 Plus 1T SSD.
The thermal sticker covering the front of the SSD can be uncovered to see the functional circuit layout of the entire SSD, which is the same as the layout of many M.2 hard disks, divided into three parts: the main control chip area, the cache chip area and the flash memory chip area, the layout as a whole, the functional circuit division is clear and clean, and the soldering effect of the components and the substrate is also very good.
The main control chip of The YREDIA P5 Plus 1T adopts Micron's own DM02A1 main control chip, which supports PCIe4.0, and in order to improve the heat dissipation efficiency of the main control chip, a metal shell is also installed on the chip to improve the heat dissipation performance. In addition, the master chip features NVMe autonomous power state transition (APST) and adaptive thermal protection to protect data at temperatures of 80 degrees Celsius or higher.
In the cache area, a 1GB capacity LPDDR4 DRAM chip is used, and the master control chip uses this cache chip to accelerate ftL management.
The flash memory chip part uses the Micron 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory chip that we mentioned at the front end of the article, which can be rated at 1600MTps, which is also one of the fastest NANDs in the flash memory market. It has a 1TB storage capacity of 1TB by carrying two flash memory chips, and can provide theoretical 6600MB/s sequential read and 5000MB/s sequential write support.
Indytec Storage Executive control software
In addition to good performance and endurance, the P5 Plus combines advanced features such as full hardware encryption, dynamic write acceleration, and adaptive thermal protection to enhance system reliability while keeping data safe. P5 Plus also comes with a 5-year limited warranty, as well as Storage Executive and free cloning software for us to view & manage SSDs.
The Storage Executive software not only monitors the multi-faceted parameter data and implementation of the SSD SSD, but also upgrades the firmware and supports functions such as data restore and detection.
Of course, if you want more detailed data on the SSD status, you can detect it through the S.M.A.R.T page in the software, which can provide users with very detailed SSD health and read and write parameters.
Indoctr P5 Plus 1T SSD theoretical performance testing
Before testing, we first look at the CrystalDiskInfo to view the information of the hard disk, you can see that the firmware version of the P5 Plus 1T is the latest P7CR403, the actual transmission mode is PCIe 4.0 x4, supporting NVMe 1.4 standard, S.M.A.R.T, TRIM and VolatileWriteCache function, standby temperature of 42 degrees. Since it is a newly shipped product, you can see that the total read and write volume of the host is 0GB, and the power-on time is also 0 hours.
CrystalDiskMark performance testing
Empty disk test, 1GB file size test
According to the performance indicators given by The Ylendia official, the sequential read speed of the P5 Plus 1T SSD is 6600 MB/s, and the sequential write speed is 5000 MB/s; and according to the actual measurement of our CrystalDiskMark software, the measured sequential read speed of the Ylreder P5 Plus 1T is 6800 MB/s, and the measured shun charge write speed is 5100 MB/s, it seems that the nominal speed of the official SSD is still more conservative. In fact, the performance of the must be significantly higher. From this performance point of view, The YLENTA P5 Plus is definitely worthy of the first-line level of the GEN4 flagship SSD.
TxBENCH benchmark performance test
Empty disk test
The results obtained by the TxBENCH benchmark are not much different from other test results of the same type, but the data fluctuations will be more obvious, such as the read and write speeds of 6429.669MB/s and 4891.776MB/s in the empty disk state, respectively
AS SSD benchmark performance test
1GB packet test:
10GB packet test
In the AS SSD benchmark performance test, the scores obtained in the test of 1GB and 10GB data levels are quite close, and the sequential read and write speeds of 1GB are 5507.98MB/s and 4371.92MB/s, respectively; 10GB are 5546.95MB/s and 458069MB/s, which reflect quite efficient read and write performance, while in the 4K multi-threaded test, the read/write IOPS of the two data tests is 571718//s. 673191 and 568621/679193, and the difference between the values is also within a reasonable range, reflecting the high performance of Micron's 176-layer NAND 3D flash memory chip.
ezIOmeter test
In the ezIOmeter test, the data read and write speeds of the YLR P5 Plus 1T were 6309.48 and 4816.42, respectively, of which the reading and writing speeds in the extreme speed state could reach 12624.49 and 9593.84, respectively. Looking at the data, the performance can be described as quite amazing.
TxBENCHSLC test
TxBENCH SLC test for the full disk test, its performance curve and temperature curve performance is very stable, especially the performance curve part can achieve a long period of small fluctuations relatively stable performance support, but also reflects that the Indydia P5 Plus SSD has a good comprehensive performance. In the case of writing a full load, the hard disk is stable up to 58 degrees, which is lower than the full load temperature of the general flagship SSD.
Summary: Through theoretical performance tests, we can see that the performance of Thelreder P5 Plus is quite excellent, and the sequential read and write speeds are much higher than the official nominal values, which further confirms the excellent performance of the Main Control and Flash Memory Particles of the P5 Plus SSD. At the same time, the full load temperature of the YLR P5 Plus is also low, thanks to the excellent temperature control of the main control, which is also relatively rare in the GEN4 flagship SSD, so that whether it is used in desktops, notebooks, or PS5, it can achieve long-term performance guarantee of high transmission speed.
Game performance testing testing
3DMark storage testing
Game performance test, we directly selected the built-in test program of 3DMARK, which can test the loading speed and average access time of different games on this SSD; it also has the speed of different game states when recording, installing, saving and moving games, so that the test program can well simulate the situation of game users in real use. In the end, the P5 Plus 1T score of 3289, while simulating a variety of game loading, installation, recording, saving and mobile games, its average bandwidth can reach 567.44MB/s, the average access time of 55μs, can be very easy to meet the current types of games in the runtime reading and writing, and the delay generated during the reading and writing process is also within a reasonable range.
PCMARK10 benchmark
In the PCMark10 complete system disk benchmark, the Performance of the P5 Plus 1T SSD is 3219, the bandwidth is 514.09MB/s, and the average access time is 52μs, in the same type of SSD products, its performance and bandwidth and average time performance are in the forefront, from one side also shows the performance of the Ylredter P5 Plus 1T.
Half-disc test
CrystalDiskMark performance test we through the previous empty disk and half disk two states to make a comparison, in the same 1 GiB data level of the test, the difference between the reading of the empty disk and the half disk is quite small, The Indytec P5 Plus SSD empty disk is 6801.72MB/s, and the half disk is 6799.51MB/s, the difference is quite small. The write performance gap is slightly larger, the empty disk is 5102.82MB/s, the half disk is 4585.83MB/s, and the difference difference is 517MB/s, which can be seen that even if the SSD occupancy reaches half, the performance of the Infineon P5 Plus is still quite excellent.
In the half-disk state, the read and write speeds are 5926.120MB/s and 4054.717MB/s, respectively, and the speed of the SSD can be correctly identified when the storage level is different, and it also reflects the high-speed read and write performance of the YLR P5 Plus 1T itself.
HD Tune Pro Half Disc SLC Test:
At the same time, let's take a look at the half disk state, the read speed of the P5 Plus SSD can maintain a fairly good stability, and the write part is significantly reduced in speed after writing 80G, but after the decline, its speed can also maintain a relatively small fluctuation of the stable state, that is to say, the Ylendra P5 Plus adopts a dynamic cache scheme, even if the half disk can still provide 80GB of SLC space for everyone, which plays a good role in the daily use of the process. In the case of half a disk, even if you are doing videos and playing games, there will be no slowdown.
Review Summary:
The 176-layer NAND 3D 3D SSD is equipped with the newly launched 176-layer NAND 3D flash memory chip developed by Micron, which is also the first civilian consumer-grade PCIe4.0 SSD product of Micron, and the excellent performance support of the 176-layer NAND 3D flash memory chip and the GEN4 main control chip gives the SSD a good performance foundation, and the 600TB durability and 5-year limited warranty can relieve everyone of the trouble of NAND particle life.
Judging from the performance data obtained by the actual test, the overall performance of the P5 Plus SSD is quite good, handling the level of the first echelon of the flagship GEN4 SSD. Coupled with the specific performance optimization tuning carried out by Micron original factory, whether it is an empty disk test or a half disk test, it can have a stable and high-speed performance, and it can maintain a small fluctuation equilibrium in performance and stability, and its temperature performance is also quite outstanding, which is rarely seen in many flagship products. For users with high requirements for stability and temperature control, the YLR P5 Plus is a good product choice, which is very suitable for gamers, game users, and video UP owners.