Toshiba XG6 NVMe SSD Review: BiCS Flash Puts Up 3GB/Sec Performance

Name: Toshiba XG6 Client NVMe SSD
Brand: Toshiba

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, August 29, 2018, 09:00 AM EDT

Toshiba XG6 NVMe M.2 SSD: PCMark Storage 2.0 Tests

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We like PCMark's Storage 2.0 benchmark module for its real-world application measurement approach to testing. PCMark offers a trace-based measurement of system response times under various scripted workloads of traditional client / desktop system operation. From simple application start-up performance, to data streaming from a drive in a game engine, and video and photo editing with Adobe applications, we are comfortable that these tests reasonably illustrate the performance profile of SSDs in an end-user / consumer PC usage model, more so than a purely synthetic transfer test.

Futuremark's PCMark Storage 2.0

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The Toshiba XG6 kicked some butt in the trace-based PCMark Storage benchmark. Across the board, whether looking at load times, available bandwidth, or the overall score, the XG6 led the pack here. Toshiba tunes the XG6 specifically for the kind of client workloads in the PCMark, as well as mainstream consumer client workloads in general, and it shows here.