Test Bench
For our tests, we used our Test Rig which consists of an Asus ROG Strix Gaming-E WiFi motherboard, along with an Intel Core i9-14900K, a ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card, and 32GB of Lexar ARES RGB DDR5-7200 memory kit.
* ALL tests are conducted at specified default speeds and settings.
| CPU | Intel Core i9-14900K |
| Cooling | Thermaltake ToughLiquid 360 Ultra AIO cooler |
| Motherboard | Asus ROG Strix Gaming-E WiFi |
| Ram | Lexar ARES DDR5-7200 32GB Memory Kit |
| XMP 3.0 profiles | Yes |
| SSD | Lexar NM800Pro PCIE Gen4
Lexar PLAY 2230 PCIE Gen4 |
| PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W 80Plus Gold |
| VGA card | ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX |
| OS |
Windows 11 |
AIDA64 Disk Information
As you can see from AIDA64 disk information, the Lexar PLAY 2230 supports NVMe 1.4, PCIE 4.0 Gen4x4. It shows a total formatted capacity of 976,762MB, which is about right for a 1TB drive when you take it in to consideration.
It doesn’t show the name of the SSD controller, but we know it uses the Silicon Motion SM2269XT, which is one of the new generation of DRAM-Less SSD controllers.
CrystalDiskMark
CrystalDiskMark is a disk benchmark software.It measure sequential reads/writes speed,measure random 512KB, 4KB, 4KB (Queue Depth=32) reads/writes speed, select test data (Random, 0Fill, 1Fill), provide theme support and Multi-Language support.
During our CrystalDiskMark 4GB test we managed to get a Read speed of 5,264 MB/sec with Write speeds of 4,662 MB/sec. It peforms better than advertised, so I’m more than happy here.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
ATTO has created a widely-accepted Disk Benchmark freeware software to help measure storage system performance. As one of the top tools utilized in the industry, Disk Benchmark identifies performance in hard drives, solid state drives, RAID arrays as well as the host connection to attached storage.
Anvil Storage
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a powerful tool that was designed in order to provide you with a simple means of assessing the read and writer performance of your Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive.
In our Anvil tests, we managed to get a 4K QTD16 Read IOPS score of 262,488.40. While 4K QTD16 write IOPS score was at 448,675.92, which is great.
Load Temps
Full load temperatures reached a high 44 degree Celsius, which is pretty low. I’m guessing the low power consumptiom of DRAM-Less SSD controller, along with the lower read/write speed actually helped in reducing the temperatures.
PCMark 10 – Full System Drive Benchmark
The Full System Drive benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives.
This benchmark writes 204 GB of data to the drive over the duration of the test. This data is deleted when the test ends.
To run this test, you need a minimum of 80 GB of free space on the drive, 8 GB of RAM, and a quad-core CPU.
PassMark 9
Fast, easy to use, PC speed testing and benchmarking. PassMark PerformanceTest allows you to objectively benchmark a PC using a variety of different speed tests and compare the results to other computers.
