I. Introduction
Mushroom recently helped a friend install several computers, the system disk has repeatedly purchased the armored man's RC20 SSD, friends are very happy, but many viewers do not seem to be too satisfied, they think that this disk is not OK, need to add money to buy better.
Personal feeling, the advantages of this piece of armored man RC20 have so many aspects, the first is the cost performance, basically the lowest price in the original solid state, 500GB can do less than 3, 1TB can do less than 6, or even close to 5, other home positioning of the solid state is not this price; the second is the material, the solid state of the armor man, the main control, cache and storage particles can be used their own, but it seems that the cache is used in Samsung, performance, stability and compatibility are guaranteed, But many people do not recognize the storage particles of the armored man, but this is indeed the original factory particles that hit the original factory standard, how can not be worse than those self-sealing particles; the third is 4K, slow external performance, the solid state of the armored man, even if it is the 500G capacity version, also uses four storage particles, through the shielding part of the capacity to achieve 500G, the four storage particles make full use of the number of channels of the master control, so that the solid state in 4K and slow performance will be better.
There are advantages that there must be disadvantages, the biggest disadvantage is life, 500G only to 200T, 1TB only to 400T, low to outrageous, it is difficult to believe that this is the original solid life performance, other home products, on average, more than 100T, 200T; the second is sequential reading and writing, RC20 sequential reading and writing is basically around 2000MB/s, in the face of those 3000MB/s reading and writing competitors, there is really no advantage.
But this problem dialectical point of view, in terms of life, mushrooms normally do system disk and program disk use, a year of reading and writing is within 5T, with a little exaggeration, a year to read and write 10T, 400T life can also be used for 40 years. In addition, there are hard-core media directly to do read and write life test, positioning lower RC10, reading and writing more than 1000 T is no problem, positioning higher RD20, there are also read and write 3000T after the performance performance is stable, and even the spare space in the solid state is not enabled, indicating that the part of open space storage is not a bad block, although there is no warranty, but it is certainly no problem. To tell the truth, it is still very difficult for ordinary users to achieve read and write 1000T or even more through normal use. But if you're the kind of user who downloads Little Sister every day, then I didn't say it.
The disadvantages of sequential reading and writing do exist, but it is slow and strong, RC20 has about 800MB/s, and none of the same positioning can play, slightly higher positioning of SSD products, and the slow outside is also relatively small. In addition, my big brother RD20 is stronger, I heard that there are 1500MB/s, but I have not tested.
In between, Mushroom recently bought several pieces of Armor man's solid state, here are some screenshots of orders. As for why it is part, because usually which platform is cheap to buy which, the after-sales of the armored man I remember is the official responsible for coming, I don't know if I remembered wrong, after all, there is no warranty, and I don't know.
Second, the armored hero EXCERIA G2 RC20 SSD out of the box
▼ Recently, it has been more difficult, ordinary express delivery is not ok, SF is OK.
▼ The seller is very good, buy and give away the heat sink, thermal pad, rubber cable tie, fixing screw and screwdriver, basically complete.
▼ The packaging style of solid state is very simple, yellow and black contrast, the middle is the solid color print, the brand is above, and the model, performance and capacity below.
▼ The back of the package introduces a lot, mainly to say that the capacity is not the same is a problem of conversion, not a product problem.
▼ Open the carton, put the solid in a plastic case, and there are instructions and installation instructions below.
Third, the armored hero EXCERIA G2 RC20 SSD appearance
▼ The appearance of the SSD is very beautiful, the PCB is blue, the particles are black, and the sticker on the front is black and yellow.
▼ The solid state adopts a single-sided particle design, the top is the cache, the middle is the master, and the bottom is four storage particles.
▼ Look closely, the cache is three-star, the main control particle is played with the LOGO of the armored man, and there is a small fever sign on it, which is very interesting. In addition, the main control, cache and next to the power management chip, can see a very obvious sealing treatment, this can be effective auxiliary fixing chip, in the face of shock, vibration, drop can effectively fix the chip, to prevent virtual welding, empty welding, is excellent performance.
▼Then there are four storage particles lined up, which are very tightly discharged, and the gap is about 1mm.
▼ There is also a sticker on the back of the package with some parameters printed on it, and the back of the PCB has some detection points and no chips.
Fourth, armored hero EXCERIA G2 RC20 SSD installed
▼ The installation of SSDs is still very simple, here according to different motherboards, installed in different locations on the line.
▼ The motherboard used by mushrooms is MSI's Z690 Dark Carbon, which has five M2 interfaces, the top one is directly connected to the CPU, and the bottom four are south bridges, and all have metal heat sinks covered.
▼ Since you want to test the solid state, here is installed on the top M2 interface, this M2 interface is covered with thermal pads above and below, auxiliary solid state heat dissipation.
▼ The top M2 interface supports the maximum 22110 specifications, and the RC20 of the armored man is 2280 specifications, and it feels a little small after installation.
▼ The fixing method of the solid tail is quick disassembly fixed, there is a black plastic piece, turn it to the solid state stuck, disassembly is very convenient.
▼ Then install the memory, Jinbaida's 16GB DDR5 4800Mhz naked bar. The MEMORY PCB is green, with a single-sided grain design and only the GoldBaida label on the back.
▼ This set of DDR5 memory of Jinbaida adopts a bare strip design, and the outside is not covered with a metal vest, so the compatibility performance of the memory is first-class, and the horizontal and vertical directions will not affect the installation and fixing of any hardware.
▼ Memory using single-sided particle design, there is a memory particle of this side facing the processor, can effectively reduce the processor to the memory particles of the physical connection distance, signal transmission is faster and more stable.
▼ The graphics card adopts Sotec's RTX3050 X-Gaming OC graphics card, the appearance of the graphics card is very beautiful, and the appearance of the fan cover is very designed.
▼ The side of the graphics card has the LOGO of Sotec, and this part also has a lighting effect.
▼ The power supply is MSI's MPG A1000G, this power supply is still very good, the appearance is very beautiful, the side has aluminum alloy decoration, a black dragon shield LOGO with MSI, and the silver one with MSI LOGO. In terms of materials, this power supply adopts all-Japan capacitors, has a 10-year warranty, adopts a flat module line design, and the single 8Pin auxiliary power supply line of the graphics card has three, which easily copes with the power supply needs of the 3090Ti level of graphics cards.
▼ In addition to the power interface and switch, there is also a Zero Fan button at the tail of the power supply, which can control the power supply cooling fan start and stop. Completely shut down the power supply cooling fan at low loads, further reducing standby noise.
▼ The auxiliary power supply 8Pin cable of the graphics card is designed for a single 8Pin, and there are three such cables, which can easily cope with some high-power graphics cards that require 3 8Pin auxiliary power supply.
▼ Boot, light up once, the whole machine effect is still very good.
▼ The processor is 12700K, the heat dissipation is MSI's God of War S360 water cooling, and there is an LCD screen on the top of the water cooling head, which can display hardware parameters, clock, weather, pictures, text and GIFs, etc., the gameplay is very diverse, and the functionality is good.
▼ MSI God of War S360 water cooling main mute, its cold exhaust fans are all silent fans, fan blades are all black design, and in silent mode support cold exhaust fan stop, further reduce standby noise, good and good.
▼ The motherboard is MSI's Z690 dark CARBON motherboard, the motherboard adopts all-black color matching, power supply and IO trim cover have some carbon fiber decoration, with the MSI Dragon Shield LOGO that supports ARGB lighting effects, the appearance is very beautiful.
▼ The front of the motherboard is covered with a large area of metal heat sinks, and the surface is beautifully decorated with carbon fiber, which is not bad.
▼ The chassis uses Antick's DF800 Flux, and the appearance and heat dissipation performance of this chassis are very good.
▼There is a large area of metal punching mesh on the left side of the front of the chassis to ensure air intake in the front of the chassis. And the surface of the metal punching mesh has a beautiful shape, with the internal color ARGB chassis fan, the overall effect is great. The right part is the light effect board, the mirror illusion ARGB light effect, and the LOGO of Antic in the middle, which looks very beautiful.
▼ The internal air duct design of the chassis is also very interesting, and there are two chassis fan positions on the power supply compartment, which can directly take care of the heat dissipation of the graphics card part.
5. Armored Hero EXCERIA G2 RC20 SSD test
▼ New SSD, the first time on the computer need to initialize.
▼After initialization, you can see it in my computer. Armor RC20 solid state, nominal capacity of 1TB, the actual usable capacity of about 931GB.
▼ Simply look at the information, the number of times the power is turned on twice, and the first time should be detected. The interface part is PCIe3.0 x 4, no problem. In addition, the standby temperature performance is not bad, the room temperature is about 26 ° C, standby 33 ° C.
▼ Simple run AS SSD test, the test file size is 1GB, sequential read and write is 1847MB/s, 1723MB/s, the performance is average. 4K read and write is 69MB/s, 223MB/s, and the 4K write performance is very impressive. Multi-threaded 4K read and write speed is also good, above 1700MB/s, but this individual user can not use. The particle response time is below 0.1ms, and the particle quality is not bad.
▼ The test file was raised from 1GB to 10GB, and the overall data performance was not bad, with slight fluctuations, but the fluctuation range was small.
▼ Change the DiskMark test, the test file size is 1GB, sequential reading 2161MB/s, write 1811MB/s, 4K read 57MB/s, write 327MB/s, this 4K write speed is somewhat outrageous.
▼ The test file has been increased from 1GB to 8GB, and the overall data performance fluctuation is very small, very stable, good and good.
▼ Then continue to write and read 200GB, measured that the SLC Cache capacity of the armored man RC20 solid state 1TB capacity is about 23GB, which is quite small and relatively conservative. The slow outer speed is stable at 750MB/s, and the slow outer speed performs well. There was also a player who performed well in slow out of speed before, but it was changed and embarrassed.
▼ Finally, the temperature test, when running continuously writes, the temperature of the SSD is up to 57 ° C, and the heat is not small. For desktop users is not a problem, paste a heatsink on the line, but for note users, to choose carefully, if the internal space is enough, you can do a heat dissipation.
6. Summary
Overall, this piece of RC20 is a relatively good and cost-effective choice. If you say that you are more sensitive to the price of SSDs, it is still very good to start with the armored man RC20, not to say that the cheapest at the same price, but it is also a very cheap piece of original solid state. Other original solids, more or less will be more expensive than this, cheap expensive 100, expensive hundreds, but the actual installed experience, can not say that there is no difference at all, can only say that 99% of the use of the use of no difference.
In terms of performance, sequential read and write speeds are indeed average, at a sufficient level. 4K performance is eye-catching, 4K writes can run to more than 300, multi-threaded 4K performance is also good. The capacity of the SLC Cache is not large, and the empty disk is only about 23GB, which is relatively conservative. Slow outside the speed of 750MB /s, this performance is relatively good, the same price can run to this speed, can only say that there should be no bar. The heat generation of SSDs is not small, and a heat sink needs to be attached for normal use.
The official warranty life is extremely conservative, 1TB capacity version is only given to 400T, which is relatively pitted, and there is no warranty directly after writing to 400T. Although the third-party test life performance is good, but the official extremely irresponsible life labeling, personal is still not very acceptable, at least catch up with the mainstream, marked 500T, 600T bar.
Not too clear about this strategy of the armored man, you say the cost of it, for this original solid-state brand, the cost of the original granules is definitely much better than buying from other manufacturers; you say the particle quality problem, this particle is a self-appointed original granules, have not heard of which will be bad particles to hit the original factory target, in addition, the actual measured life, there are many test cases on the Internet that write more than 1000 T as stable as usual; you say the positioning problem, this RC10, RC20, The RD20's 1TB capacity version life is 400T, no difference, really don't understand.
Thank you!
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