Immediately we’re trying on the Fanxiang S660 4TB SSD. That is the third in my Fanxiang collection, and I’ve beforehand checked out their S770 and S880 drives. We began trying into Fanxiang as a result of Patrick started to run into their model drives out within the wild, and since no one else appears to be protecting them. Whereas The S770 was a reasonably performant drive, and the S880 was a reliable DRAM-less drive, the S660 could be very a lot focused on the finances market. This drive is on the market in a 4TB capability level which for many customers represents a really massive SSD, and it does so at a really low value level. Allow us to see the way it does!
Fanxiang S660 4TB NVMe SSD
Much like earlier Fanxiang drives, they get factors in my ebook for the equipment. The S660 packaging really features a heatsink that customers can set up for themselves, together with all of the thermal pads, a tiny screwdriver, and M.2 screw.
As for the drive itself, the Fanxiang S660 4TB is available in a single-sided M.2 2280 (80mm) kind issue.
The S660 sports activities a Phison PS5021-E21T controller, just like that seen within the Essential P3 Plus. The NAND is provided by Micron and is 176-layer QLC, and there’s no DRAM cache. Much like the S770, the entrance of this drive doesn’t have a full drive label, so the parts are fairly simple to see.
The rear of the S660 is the place Fanxiang has really positioned the product label. Since this can be a single-sided drive, nothing else is on the again of the drive. The position of the label doesn’t matter, aside from curiosity’s sake.
Should you set up the drive within the heatsink you get a Fanxiang emblem to take a look at!
Fanxiang S660 SSD Specs
The spec sheet says the Fanxiang S660 is on the market between 500GB and 4TB capacities.
My evaluation mannequin is the 4TB, which boasts average specs for a PCIe Gen 4 drive at 5000 MB/s learn and 4500 MB/s write. Endurance for this drive is rated at 2800 TBW, which barely exceeds my expectations for a drive of this capability. Fanxiang additionally boasts a 5-year guarantee, or at the least that’s what it says on the field. Like earlier Fanxiang drives, this one isn’t really listed on the Fanxiang web site. That makes it considerably tough to search out info exterior of the Amazon itemizing, so I take their guarantee protection with a grain of salt.
CrystalDiskInfo may give us some primary details about the SSD and confirms we’re working at PCIe 4.0 x4 speeds utilizing NVMe 1.4.
Take a look at System Configuration
We’re utilizing the next configuration for this take a look at:
- Motherboard: MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (12C/24T)
- RAM: 2x 16GB DDR5-6000 UDIMMs
Our testing makes use of the Fanxiang S660 4TB because the boot drive for the system, put in within the M.2_1 slot on the motherboard. This slot helps as much as PCIe Gen 5 x4. The drive is crammed to 85% capability with knowledge, after which some is deleted, leaving round 60% used area on the quantity.
Subsequent, we’re going to get into our efficiency testing.
