Apacer AS723 1TB Hyperspeed Portable SSD Review
Peter Donnell / 3 weeks ago
The drive can run at up to 2000 MB/s, but that’ll depend on the files your moving, the cable, the USB port, the motherboard/laptop your using etc. Thankfully, at 1918.27 MB/s write, we got pretty close to the theoretical maximum on our first benchmark.
We see really good IOPS too, hitting nearly 60K on the RND4K Q32T1 test.
In Anvil, which usually scores lower than CDM for read and write speeds, we saw it actually exceed the rated 2000 MB/s read with 2048 MB/s, and we also got 1424.20 MB/s Seq 4MB write too.
The drive gets up to full speed with file sizes of around 256KB to 512KB, and maintained good speeds of 1.55 GB/s to 1.88 GB/s throughout the read and write tests.
AS SSD showed fast access times, hardly surprising given the NVMe tech, but also broadly similar read and write speeds in excess of 1700 MB/s.
We also saw fairly similar IOPS compared to previous testing, so it’s providing pretty consistent even after relentlessly benchmarking the built-in drive.
Loading times are going to be pretty switch for a typical ISO, program or game, but again, it’s about 4-5x faster than a 2.5″ SSD, and 15-20x faster than MicroSD for devices like cameras.
AJA is great for testing the recording capabilities, and with a RAW 5K RED 10 Bit file, it passed with flying colours.
Read and write speeds look great in our compression test, and while there were two drops down to 50% speed, they were pretty short and likely just waiting for input from the CPU as it runs the compression rather than any issue with the drive.
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker showed pretty consistent scene loading times, giving it an overall “Extremely High” rating, which is obviously very good.
Our final benchmark, we can see good access times, with all but “move game” being under 300.
Finally, we have temperatures, and while drives of these speed are unlikely to generate too much heat, the housing does act as a passive heatsink, and the drive never exceeded 49c, which is well within the 70c maximum operating temperature.
