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Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB NVMe SSD Review

Final Thoughts

Pricing

We don’t have the actual street prices yet as we’re reviewing the drive prior to the official release, but we can provide the suggested retail prices which most likely will stick for a while. The drive we have reviewed today, the 512GB version with PCIe adapter will cost you £294.99 which equals to about 0.58 per GB capacity.

The M.2 module without adapter will set you back £99.99, £149.99, £274.99, and £634.99 respectively for the 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB drives. The ones with included PCIe adapter cost a little more, but not much. Here you’ll have to pay £114.99, £169.99, £294.99, and £654.99 respectively.

Conclusion

I have waited a long time for this drive since we saw the first hints and teasers about it, and I wasn’t disappointed with what I saw. The OCZ RD400 is an amazing drive that takes storage to the next level thanks to the use of NVMe. Watching the charts and comparing the performance makes it clear, NVMe is the future and the RD400 is an amazing example of this.

We saw a highly increased performance in all areas and that’s something that will make a clear difference when you install your operating system onto the drive. It will boot faster, it will react faster, and it will read and write faster. What’s not to love.

Throughout the performance analysis charts, we did see some performance variations and the lines go up and down a little. Preferably, we like those lines to be as straight as possible. At the same time, we have to say that the drive still performed great, even when it didn’t perform as good as it did in other tests. It also comes down to the testing methods that will lock in temporary low values that only might occur for very short times and thereby change the overall result. Something that is visible in some benchmarks sometimes, but nothing that will show in any way during normal usage.

With capacities ranging from 128GB to 1TB and a performance rating up to 2600MB/s reading and 1600MB/s writing as well as a random performance up to 210K IOPS, there’s something for everyone. Whether you pick an OCZ RD400 with or without the adapter, you’ll have a great drive. It does cost more than most ordinary drives, but not much when you compare the performance you get. If my own system wasn’t already powered by an NVMe drive, I’d plug this one into it in a split second.

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