For decades, electronic products such as solid-state drives have been monopolized by foreign brands, even if they are manufactured by domestic brands, they also use foreign chips, so they often face the risk of being stuck in the neck. However, this situation has changed, the pure domestic 64-layer 3D TLC particles launched by Yangtze River Storage have been mass-produced for more than a year, and many domestic brands have launched solid-state drive products equipped with this pure domestic particle, and Mingxuan Taiji SSD is one of them. Today we will test the 512GB MingXuan Tai Chi SSD to see how it performs.
Mingxuan Taiji SSD adopts the domestic Lianyun MAS0902 master control + Yangtze River storage 64 layer 3D TLC storage granules, which is a pure domestic solid-state drive from the inside out. Mingxuan Tai Chi SSD has three capacities of 256GB, 512GB and 1TB, and what we are going to test today is the 512G version.
Most people install an SSD when they install the machine, but they don't know how to choose the capacity. If you only do the system disk, 128GB and 256GB are enough, and then put the data and games and other content on the mechanical hard disk. This is the least expensive, but slower when opening games and large files. If you want to have your game in a solid state, you'll need at least a 512GB SSD.
The Mingxuan Taiji SSD is available in a 2.5-inch disc size and 7mm thickness, which can be installed in the vast majority of laptops and desktops on the market. This SSD has an all-metal casing, aluminum alloy material is not only lightweight, but also pressure-resistant and drop-resistant, which is more portable than mechanical hard drives. The surface of the housing is frosted to improve heat dissipation.
The sticker on the back of the Mingxuan Taiji SSD details the model, capacity, serial number, supported protocols, and various authentication information of the hard drive. The Mingxuan Taiji SSD uses two 64-layer 3D TLC NAND particles produced by Yangtze River Storage, with a single chip capacity of 256GB, combined into a total capacity of 512GB.
Mingxuan Taiji SSD master controller is Lianyun MaxioMAS0902A, which is manufactured using 40nm process, supports SATA3.2 standard, and has a theoretical bandwidth of 6Gb/s. Mingxuan Taiji SSD is very simple to install, and ordinary 2.5-inch hard disk, after the hard disk is fixed, plug in the data cable and power cable, you can boot the test.
The new hard drive itself has no partitions, so I can't see the hard drive on my computer when I first get on the computer and need to be set up in Admin-Disk Management to use it. It should be noted that there are exFAT and NTFS options when formatting in Win10 or above, and the exFAT format is more suitable for SSDs. After the format is completed, the actual usable capacity is 476GB, which is consistent with the theoretical calculations.
Start by using CrystalDiskInfo to view the information about your hard drive. The power-on time is 0 hours, and the number of power-ups is 3 times, and it is determined that it is a new hard disk. The hard disk supports NCQ and TRIM functions, and the transfer mode is SATA/600, which is consistent with the protocol supported by the master.
First, the AS SSD Benchmark was used for testing, and the sequential read and write speeds of Mingxuan Taiji 512GB SSD were measured to be 520MB/s and 485MB/s, respectively, and the 4K read and write speeds were 21MB/s and 87MB/s, respectively. Generally speaking, the solid-state running score of the SATA interface can be regarded as a good hard disk with a score of more than 800 points, and the final score of the Mingxuan Taiji 512GB SSD is 1168 points, which seems to have a very good performance.
Using ATTO for disk benchmarking, from the test results, it can be seen that from 16KB, the read speed of Tai Chi 512GB SSD has reached 3454MB/s, and the write speed is as high as 437MB/s. More than 256KB file read speed can be stable at about 530MB/s, the write speed is also about 490MB/s, for the commonly used application scenarios of the hard disk, such performance is in the middle and upper class of the SATA hard disk, it seems that the performance level of the domestic chip has been very high.
When tested using CrystalDiskMark, the sequential read of the Mingxuan Taiji 512GB SSD was 559MB/s and the sequential write was 513MB/s; the 4K continuous read speed was 36MB/s, and the 4K continuous write speed was 102MB/s, which was better than the test results of the previous two software, further proving the performance of this hard drive.
Write a 24GB large file to Mingxuan Taiji 512GB SSD, and the write speed has been stable at more than 440MB/S, which is more than three times faster than the mechanical hard disk, which means that we only need more than two seconds to copy a 1GB movie, and the game will load the archive file faster.
SSDs will drop after the cache is used up, we used HD Tune for file benchmarking, set the file length to 100GB, found
The read speed of Mingxuan Taiji 512GB SSD has been stable at more than 530M, while the write speed has been stable at about 420MB/s when it is less than 50G, and after exceeding 50G, there will be a significant drop, indicating that the cache of this hard disk is greater than 50GB, which is enough to cope with most of the situations in which we use computers every day. It is worth mentioning that even after the speed is dropped, the speed can stabilize at more than 300MB/s, which is much more powerful than most SSDs!
Pair the Mingxuan Tai Chi 512GB SSD with a 2.5-inch portable hard disk enclosure and it becomes a high-speed portable hard disk. Using CrystalDiskMark to test the speed of this mobile hard disk, the final sequential read and write speed is above 400MB/s, which can definitely kill most mobile hard disks and USB flash drives. We can use it to store game data, we can also use it to make a WINTOGO system to carry around, any computer can run their own system, does not affect the original machine itself and the system and data.
Through this test of Mingxuan Taiji 512GB SSD, it was found that its reading and writing speed is stable, and the heat control is also very good, so it seems that the pure domestic SSD has done very well, and the excellent cost performance plus three-year warranty has completely dispelled our doubts. Friends who are ready to install or upgrade their computers, it is time to support domestic products!