Are you curious what's actually the fastest consumer 32 TB RAID array which you can
really buy? NVME array which is super easy to set up and still affordable?
Welcome to the monster to the market. addlink S95 8 TB Gen4 NVME.
And now imagine what these disks can do when they are a total of four in a single huge 32
TB NVME RAID array. This is most probably the fastest consumer 32 TB RAID array which
you can really buy. Oh my Lord. The future is already now. Stop dreaming, it's real!
From now on remember the name of addlink because you will hear more and more about them in future.
addlink is from Taipei in Taiwan. Not only they provide professional gaming memory and
m.2 PCI Express SSDs but also 2.5 inch SATA 3 SSDs, server and NAS SSDs, portable SSDs,
USB drives and professional memory cards which gained my attention even more. But
why I'm talking about addlink? Because they provide real value compared to the global
brands such as Samsung and Western Digital. In another words same great quality of SSDs but
at friendly and affordable price. addlink have on the market already the 1TB and 2TB versions
of these drives which earned really excellent reviews and they are now coming with really big
guns - the S95 4TB one and 8TB NVME discs. addlink S95 is Gen 4x4 NVME 1.4 SSD which provides extreme
storage performance and blazing fast sequential speeds up to 7 GBs per second. Uses TLC 3D NAND
technology and compared to SATA SSDs the addlink S95 delivers reads and write speeds more than 14
times faster and at least two times faster than gen 3 NVME SSDs. The S95 is also fully backwards
compatible with PCI Express gen 3 platforms. By the way this video would not be possible without
kind help of guess who? Nice people in addlink which did send me all of these drives for testing,
but this video is not sponsored by addlink at all, no money changed hands, they have no control over
what I say and you know I'm always honest no matter what. They will see this video first at
the same time as you and I have to return those discs back so you don't need to be jealous. With
that out of the way another the thing what makes these drives Stand Out is their excellent TBW,
which if you don't know yet stands for Terra Bytes Written. In another words how many times
you can fully overwrite these disks until you can expect some degradation. The S95 4TB one
has TBW of 2800 and 8 TB version whopping 5600 which is really outstanding. I use these discs
for couple of months already for multicam 8K RAW video production and man... you will see
later yourself. OK, that's nice but let's first verify addlink claims about the 7 Gigabytes per
second read speed and 6 Gigabytes per second write speed of each of these disks. So I installed it
directly to PCI Express Gen 4 slot on MSI TRX40 Creator motherboard on my AMD Threadripper 3970x
benchmarking system. I used Phoronix test suite and iozone and fio disk benchmarks under Linux
to get the maximum out of it. And I did really very deep testing which took me several days.
I took at least four measurements of each test and the results really surprised me. Both drives
compete for victory in different tests but in the end both drives deliver similar excellent
performance. In sequential reads the 8 terabyte version did get over 7 gigabytes per second,
4 terabyte one 6.9 gigabytes per second and in sequential writes the 8 terabyte version
was a bit slower 5.1 gigabytes per second but the four terabyte did get 6.4 gigabytes per
second. By the way for those of you who are nerdy and technical I have left in this video
description below link to all my detailed results on openbenchmarking.org website so you can easily
compare it to your system too. Now it's time to release the Kraken. To get really the maximum out
of these addlink S95 8 TB NVME discs let's create striped array for total of 32 TB of NVME storage.
I installed those 4 addlink S95 NVME drives onto true PCI Express Gen 4 card from MSI and let the
MSI TRX40 Creator and 3970X Threadripper do its job. I used SoftRAID from OWC and after
many days of testing I ended up on this exact configuration which gave me the best shocking
results. "Optimized for workstation" with stripe size of 512 KB which after formatting gave me
29.1 terabytes of NVME usable storage space. Don't forget exact performance depends on many factors,
your use case, file size, file type, video codec etc. so in next benchmarks you will see
performance vary a lot by its specific workload. But hold tight because what you're gonna see will
for sure blow your mind. Let's start "slowly" but believe me it's worth waiting until the end of
this video because you will see probably the world record. In Blackmagic Speed Test on 1 GB file I
measured at maximum 13.5 gigabytes per second writes and 12.8 gigabytes per second reads, on
5 GB file 12.8 gigabytes writes and 13.1 gigabytes per second reads. Let's shift up a gear right? In
AJA System Lite 4K UHD resolution 10 bit and 64 GB test file I did get 14.1 gigabytes per second
write speed and 17.5 gigabytes per second read speed. But let's shift up even to a higher gear,
to the insane territory, shall we? In ATTO disk Benchmark I measured 17.1 gigabytes write speed
but what the hell I can see for the read speed? Insane 27.88 gigabytes per second. Ufff. But the
final nail in the coffin of my my doubt was struck by CrystalMark where I measured truly
insane 28136 MB per second read speed, who needs that? This is most probably the fastest consumer
32 TB RAID array which you can really buy! Oh my Lord. The future is already now. What I love on
it it's super easy to set up and it's affordable. Stop dreaming, it's real! Get these drives using
the link in the video description before they are all sold out. I linked also the gear I used for
testing. But what about some downsides right? Well I have nothing major bad to say about it,
I would have to be nitpicky. Just maybe two things - I noticed the S95 8 TB version ran
about 10 degrees hotter than the 4 TB version so make sure you have good airflow in your case
or good heatsink which is not included with the S95 drives. And second thing - both addlink S95
4TB and 8 TB NVMEs are double-sided so make sure your RAID card or motherboard slots are
ready for that. But during my testing I did not find any hardware where it would not fit well
including The Sonnet 4x4 PCI Express Silent Card and Sonnet McFiver which I deeply tested
too. And because on my YouTube channel I cover a lot Apple Mac stuff I'm sure you are curious how
the 32 TB NVME addlink S95 RAID array performs in Mac right? But don't worry I was thinking of you
too. I will show you how it performs in Mac Pro 2019 as well as on Mac Studio in next videos so
make sure to subscribe to this channel and hit the bell and choose all notifications so you
won't miss it. Whether you are a Mac, Windows or Linux user this state-of-the-art storage solution
is designed to take your creative workflow to the next level. With incredibly fast read and
write speeds you will never have to waste time waiting for the files to transfer or render
again. Welcome to the future of data storage for audio, video, 3D professionals and gamers.