After I got used to the transmission speed between the M.2 and PCIe interface solid-state drives, it is difficult for ordinary USB drives and mobile hard drives to meet my requirements. ROG products have always been both good and good, so I picked up one of the ROG Strix Arion S500 mobile solid-state drives that support USB 3.2 Gen 2 (transmission bandwidth of 10Gbps) as soon as I was launched. Compared with the previous ROG Strix Arion NVMe M.2 hard drive case, it comes with ROG customized M.2 hard drive. I will share it below.
According to the latest published specifications, the naming of USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 will completely disappear and will be uniformly classified into the USB 3.2 sequence. The three are renamed:
USB3.2 Gen1——SuperSpeed USB (theoretical transmission bandwidth 5Gbps, 500MB/s, the previous ordinary USB3.0)
USB3.2 Gen2——SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps (theoretical transmission bandwidth 10Gbps, 1000MB/s)
USB3.2 Gen2x2——SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps (theoretical transmission bandwidth 20Gbps, 2000MB/s).
Note that the speed limits of different interfaces are different, so if the USB 3.2 Gen 2 mobile solid-state drive is connected to the USB 3.2 Gen 1 interface, the transmission speed will be at least half, which will greatly affect the speed and experience.
Unboxing & Lighting Effect
Unboxing Animation Picture First, the outer packaging is a classic design of the current ROG products, the product + the cool Eye of the Prodigal LOGO, and it supports ROG family barrel lighting effects. Family portraits include hard disk box body, Type-C to Type-C data cable (I forgot to take the cable of Type-C to Type-A), manual, warranty card, etc.
aluminum alloy shell (official introduction is aluminum alloy) is full of ROG design atmosphere, with the eye of the prodigal + technological texture. In order to match the positioning of ROG, the processing technology adopts high-precision laser engraving technology, so whether it is the technological texture on the front of the picture above or the back grille design on the picture below, there is no burr.
The back of the grille looks like a grille, which is actually a heat dissipation groove, not only for the sake of good looks, but also to increase the area to assist heat dissipation.
0 Gbps USB 3.2 GEN 2 Type-C interface The small hole next to the USB 3.2 GEN 2 Type-C interface is not the reset key, but the socket where the pin opens the upper cover. There is a sticker for introducing your origin on the side of
. I am considering removing it~
Open the upper cover and you can see M.2 customized by Asus and thermal grease pad covered by the upper cover, which covers the M.2 hard disk. This design details are very good. After all, too high temperature will affect the transmission and life of the hard disk.
group connection master control solution, and the memory chip is Toshiba .
Armoury Crate As the main console of the ROG device, it can adjust the lighting effect of the ROG Strix Arion S500 mobile solid-state drive. ROG Strix Arion is this hard drive.
at night, and I'll test
Next I will test ROG Strix Arion S500 mobile solid state drive through HDTune, TxBENCH, CrystalDiskMark3.0.1 and 5.2.0, AS SSD Benchmark, Anvil's Storage Utilities and other software.
Nowadays, many people are concerned about, are not a problem on the ROG Strix Arion S500 mobile solid-state drive. During the test, I set the file length to 200,000MB. The write curve did not decrease and stabilize at about 750MB/s until more than 120 gB is written. It is estimated that the cache of the ROG Strix Arion S500 mobile solid state drive is 100GB, and the external slowdown speed is still good. The reading speed of the sequential read and write project in ROG, YES~
CDM5.2.0 is 958.8MB/s and the writing speed is 855.2MB/s. The reading speed of the 4K read and write project is 38.41MB/s and the writing speed is 82.24MB/s; the reading speed of the sequential read and write project in
CDM6.0.2 is 958.1MB/s and the writing speed is 855.5MB/s. The reading speed of the 4K read and write project is 39.45MB/s and the writing speed is 82.22MB/s; the reading speed of the sequential read and write project in
CDM8.0.0 is 967.81MB/s and the writing speed is 859.81MB/s. The reading speed of 4K read and write projects is 39.50MB/s and the writing speed is 83.14MB/s.
AS SSD Benchmark test
TxBENCH test
Anvil's Storage Utilities test.
Usually copy large-capacity HD, which is just a test. 101GB of panoramic high-definition, 69 files, 34 folders, which is more in line with my transmission habits.
read speed peak can reach more than 810 MB/s, and when it is close to the end, it falls back to more than 650 MB/s. What is tested here is the strength of writing disks. When
continues to write, the transmission speed is relatively stable, basically maintaining more than 630-640 MB/s, and more than 100 G is only more than 3 minutes.
is due to the ROG Strix Arion S500 mobile solid-state drive supporting USB 3.2 GEN 2 Type-C interface, and the combination of Asus' customized group-connected master + Toshiba memory chip is still very good in terms of cache capacity transmission speed. The continuous read and write speed is close to the theoretical bandwidth of USB 3.2 GEN 2's maximum transmission rate of 10Gb/s during the test of TxBENCH and CDM5.2.0.
Another night work animation picture, I really can't see enough. The launch of the Strix Arion S500 mobile solid-state drive has enriched the external storage devices in the ROG ecosystem. Not only is the case design full of technology, but the heat dissipation design details are also very considerate. There is no need to choose an M.2 hard drive. The combination of group connection master + Toshiba storage chip can experience the theoretical transmission bandwidth close to USB 3.2 GEN 2, and it also has a good reading and writing speed brought by large-capacity cache. If you include supporting the Eye of the Prodigal Light Effect Family Bucket, the hard drive box will be free, haha!
