HP EX900 500GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Review

Linear Write, File Transfer and Game Load Time Testing

AIDA64 Disk Benchmark

We’ve had some people ask for AIDA64 linear write tests to be done, so we fired that utility up to see what would happen.

When you take a look at extended sustained write performance you’ll see that the performance started out at around 1550 MB/s and then dropped down to around 200 MB/s once the drives SLC cache was full. Once the drives cache was full, the controller allowed data to be written directly to the TLC NAND Flash memory and that is why the performance looks like it fell off a cliff. The good news is that one would have to write over 60GB of data to the drive without any breaks for this to happen. Most people seldom do that and this would happen rarely if ever on an average consumers computer.

Real World File Transfer

Let’s see how real-world was when writing a movie folder containing seven 1080P movies over to the SSD. For this test, we are going to simply stress write performance by transferring over a 30.6GB folder of movies off of a PCIe NVMe SSD to the drive being tested to see how performance looks.

The HP SSD EX900 Series 500GB drive finished our file transfer test at 1441.666 MB/s, which is way better that we ever expected!

Game Load Time Testing

When we tested game load time testing on the drive we noticed that it averaged right at 30 seconds, which is on par with class-leading PCIe NVMe drives that use NAND Flash memory.

We noticed that when Windows 10 Superfetch was disabled on the system that the load times actually improved by over a second!

More solid numbers from a low cost DRAM-less PCIe NVMe drive!