Lexar NM710 512GB

While it has similar hardware configurations and name to the TiPlus7100, it falls short in overall tuning, especially as performance declines after PE600.

PyNVMe3 Test Report of Lexar NM710

PS4 power consumption is excellent. But the TMT1/TMT2 setting is strange.

PS4 power consumption mW PS4 exit latency TMT1 (℃) TMT2 (℃)
NM710 2.4 25992.0 99 114
TiPlus7100 2.3 21894.8 99 114
SN770 15.4 10675.6 80 82

NM710 sequential read/write performance at FOB is slower than its sibling TiPlus 7100.

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Time-0 performance issue is observed on both NM710 and TiPlus7100.

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Read/write/trim mixed performance is low.

read/write mix K IOPS all IO mix K IOPS JEDEC replay time Second
NM710 57.013 1.549 8688.787
TiPlus7100 53.249 1.605 7182.255
SN770 90.504 8.467 2506.602

The latency of low-loading workload is high.

10 IOPS read 99% Latency (ms) 100 IOPS read 99% Latency (ms) rwmix 99% Latency (ms) 1QD 512 write max Latency (ms) 1QD 512 red max Latency (ms)
NM710 999.999 3.505 12.928 114.450 6.167
TiPlus7100 895.650 2.145 11.161 100.041 6.405
SN770 102.830 0.154 11.400 8.751 5.568

Trim performance is not good. But write performance is recoved after trim.

IOPS (K) Average Latency (ms) performance before trim (MB/s) performance after trim (MB/s)
NM710 0.892 17.912 965.784 1666.771
TiPlus7100 0.982 16.282 1181.302 1861.139
SN770 4.494 3.554 899.344 1818.023

From PE600, both read/write performance drop.

sequential read MB/s sequential write MB/s random read K IOPS random write K IOPS
NM710 4202.428 2319.354 123.869 17.695
PE300 4204.951 2336.024 125.476 17.822
PE600 3955.587 720.599 79.742 5.498
PE900 3967.320 716.710 79.524 5.468
PE1200 3987.153 719.087 79.510 5.486