The Samsung Magician v7.0 offers a quick look at the drive's performance with around 7.41GB/sec reading and 6.7GB/sec writing performance.

The AJA Test System shows a quick overview of the drive's reading/writing speed, having around 5.06GB/sec writing and around 5.22GB/sec reading.

Passing to a more well-known benchmark, the ATTO Disk Benchmark shows the performance with various file sizes from 0.5Kb, 1Kb, and 2Kb up to 8192MB file sizes. The drive did perform a little slower than its specifications but this was seen with many recent NVME drives.

Passing to the newest ATTO Disk Benchmark 4.01.0F1, performance was better, however, after a point, we saw a slight performance drop, which indicates a possible thermal throttle situation.

stock cooler

Changing the stock cooler we got better performance and full reading/writing speeds.

be quiet! MC1 Pro cooler

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.4

CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2

CrystalDiskMark 7.0.0

CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4

Getting into AS SSD Benchmark software, the drive got an average score of 4368 points.

Passing the IOMeter test, with our custom configuration, the drive performed well with 106902points, even other drives from Samsung (990Pro/980Pro) have around 160.000 points. The max I/O response time is around 10.90ms.

Passing to real-life writing tests now, we used a Samsung 980Pro 1TB drive as the source to test the writing abilities of the Verbatim Vi7000G 2TB drive.

The first test was to try to write a single file of 44GB data from the Samsung 980Pro 1TB to the Verbatim drive. The writing performance was very good, starting from 2.5GB and reaching 4.5GB/sec at the end. We didn't have any drop in writing speed. All tests were done with the TerraCopy software.

The next step was to find out if the drive has any issues with a much bigger file and its writing speed. We used a single 286GB file of data from the Samsung 980Pro 1TB to the Verbatim Vi7000G 2TB. The drive, due to its onboard DRAM, had a very good performance and managed to write the 286GB file in 53 seconds. There was a very small drop at writing speeds around the 100GB mark but quickly the drive catch up and we can say the overall performance was very good.

The drive does seem to produce heat, hence the fact that Verbatim included a built-in heatsink. During our test we saw up to 80+ Celsius, indicating that the product needs a bigger cooling solution since extreme using will introduce thermal throttle at the end.

We had in our labs a proven NVME SSD cooling solution from be quiet! the MC1 Pro should be able to handle such heat loads. After re-running all tests in order, like with the stock cooler, we got better drive temperatures and reading/writing speeds, as we demonstrated earlier. The be quiet! MC1 Pro did manage to get lower temperatures at both drive sensors.