We used CrystalDiskMark 8‘s custom settings to test the Sequential read and write performance of the drive through a range of queue depths. The setup for the tests is listed below.
128KB Sequential Read / Write.
Transfer Request Size: 128KB, Thread(s): 1, Outstanding I/O: 1-32.
With our 128KB Sequential tests, we could confirm both read and write maximum figures ( 7,400MB/s and 6,800MB/s, respectively). The best read figure we saw was 7,455.8MB/s (QD32), while the peak write figure we saw was 6,968.94MB/s at QD16.
128KB Sequential Read v QD performance compared
Compared to drives around it, the CRAS 930 performed best at QD1 where its test result of 3,439MB/s puts the drive into fourth place in the results chart. At QD's 2 and 4 the drive drops down the chart before staging a recovery at QD32.
128KB Sequential Write v QD performance compared
The poorest performance in the Sequential write tests comes at QD1, where the drive sits in second place in the table. At QDs 2, 4 and 32, the drive is the fastest Gen 4 drive we've seen to date for these tests.