AnandTech Storage Bench - Heavy

Our Heavy storage benchmark is proportionally more write-heavy than The Destroyer, but much shorter overall. The total writes in the Heavy test aren't enough to fill the drive, so performance never drops down to steady state. This test is far more representative of a power user's day to day usage, and is heavily influenced by the drive's peak performance. The Heavy workload test details can be found here.

The Patriot Hellfire exhibits an unusually large disparity in performance when the Heavy test is run on a full drive compared to an empty drive. Fresh out of the box, the Hellfire largely keeps pace with the other MLC NVMe SSDs, but when full its average data rate drops down into the high end of SATA performance territory.

The average service times tell the same story as the average data rates: when the Patriot Hellfire is not filled, it can be lumped in with most of the other NVMe SSDs, but when it is completely full it loses almost all of its advantage over high-end SATA SSDs.

The Patriot Hellfire experiences relatively few high-latency outliers when the Heavy test is run on a fresh drive, but when filled is experiences substantially more outliers and it ranks worse than any MLC SSD in this comparison—NVMe or SATA.

The Patriot Hellfire is not the most power-hungry NVMe SSD in this bunch, but it is still substantially less efficient than Samsung's SSDs and mainstream SATA SSDs.

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