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Description: PCIe Gen 3 x4
Drive Size: 238.5 GB
Other names: NVMe WDC WDS256G1X0C-, NVMe WDC WDS256G1X0C- SCSI Disk Device, WDC WDS256G1X0C-00ENX0
Drive First Benchmarked: 2017-03-10
Drive Rating/$Price: 46.46
Overall Rank: 1561
Last Price Change: $129.99 USD (2021-07-09)
| Sequential Read | 667 MBytes/Sec |
|---|---|
| Sequential Write | 599 MBytes/Sec |
| Random Seek Read Write (IOPS 32KQD20) | 388 MBytes/Sec |
| IOPS 4KQD1 | 45 MBytes/Sec |
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| Drive | Average Disk Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB | 33,552 | |
| Corsair Force MP600 1TB | 30,623 | |
| Samsung SSD 980 PRO 500GB | 30,395 | |
| Sabrent ROCKET 4.0 1TB | 30,266 | |
| Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 M.2 1TB | 30,206 | |
| Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB | 25,158 | |
| Force MP600 | 24,889 | |
| WD Black SN750 NVMe 1TB | 24,481 | |
| Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB | 24,214 | |
| WD Black NVMe 256GB | 6,039 | |
| PassMark Software © 2008-2021 |
| Drive | Disk Rating / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Force MP600 | 226.29 | |
| Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 M.2 1TB | 188.80 | |
| WD Black SN750 NVMe 1TB | 163.22 | |
| Corsair Force MP600 1TB | 159.50 | |
| Samsung SSD 980 PRO 500GB | 155.88 | |
| Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB | 145.88 | |
| Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB | 111.08 | |
| Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB | 51.13 | |
| WD Black NVMe 256GB | 46.46 | |
| Sabrent ROCKET 4.0 1TB | 0.00 | |
| PassMark Software © 2008-2021 |
| Baseline | Disk Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| BL1458691 - Oct 18 2021 | 7252 | |
| BL1457656 - Oct 16 2021 | 5776 | |
| BL1457233 - Oct 14 2021 | 6350 | |
| BL1454523 - Oct 07 2021 | 5492 | |
| BL1451716 - Sep 28 2021 | 6144 | |
| PassMark Software © 2008-2021 |
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