RoadtoRyzen: AMD Ryzen AM4 X370 Storage benchmarks

quindor@quindorian.org

8 years ago

Over the past few weeks I’ve been running a lot of AMD Ryzen benchmarks. This time we’re taking a look at the Ryzen processor in combination with the X370 chipset and see how well it does with storage tasks!

Video

To start off we have the video that probably brought you here. In the video we go through single SSD, multi striped SSD and combined NVMe and striped SSD tests, check it out!

SSD information

As mentioned in the video the SSDs used for these benchmarks are:

1x NVMe – Samsung 960 Pro 512GB
3x AHCI – Crucial MX300 525GB
2x AHCI – Samsung 840 Pro 256GB
1x AHCI – Samsung 840 Evo 250GB

All benchmarks where performed on a Gigabyte Aorus AX37-Gaming-5 motherboard running the 5Fc BIOS. The 1700x was overclocked to 3.80Ghz with 16GB 2933Mhz memory.

Additional benchmarks

Additional to the video below are extra benchmarks. I tested multiple situations which I’ll highlight below.

Be warned, lots of benchmarks incoming!

1x NVMe Samsung 960 Pro 512GB

Microsoft NVMe drivers

Horrible performance using the Microsoft drivers

ATTO doesn’t show the slower speeds of the MS NVMe drivers

CrystalDiskMark shows fair performance even with the MS NVMe drivers

Samsung NVMe drivers

After installing the Samsung NVMe drivers write performance increases ten-fold!

Massive improvements with the Samsung NVMe driver!

ATTO doesn’t show too much of a difference

CrystalDiskMark is showing impressive scores

6x SSD

Here are some benchmarks with all the 6 SSDs in a stripe/RAID0 together. I tried multiple port configurations but it didn’t show any speed differences.

X370 AM4 Chipset RAID

Better performance then a single SSD but mainly for sequential transfers

Impressive performance, writes are even higher then the 960 Pro!

Windows 10 Pro x64 Striping

Windows striping has been hit and miss in the past. But in recent versions and since AHCI has been on the latest revisions it’s actually become quite good!

Anvil scores using Windows striping are higher then chipset RAID0!

AS-SSD is showing good scores. 64 Threaded writes are definitely faster then a single SSD

ATTO shows linear scaling per SSD you add. Great sequential write and read performance!

CrystalDiskMark also shows some impressive performance numbers

2x SSD Mirror

To get some extra data security RAID1 or a mirror is often the best choice on a desktop computer. So I tested it both using the X370 chipest and in Windows using software mirroring.

Chipset mirror

The chipset mirror/RAID1 didn’t do so well. Reads seem to do fine but writes show bad performance.

For some reason writes performance takes a bit hit

The same can be seen in Anvil. Read IOps are also quite low

Windows Mirror/RAID1

Let’s see how well the software mirror does in Windows!

Windows RAID1/mirror shows A LOT better performance. Especially the write performance and IOps are A LOT higher

Read and write performance is the same as without using a mirror, excellent, much better then using the chipset!

Ending remarks

And that’s it. As you can see the chipset does pretty good in RAID0 but when using it for mirroring/RAID1 it falls flat on it’s face.

On the other hand it does show that the AHCI performance is great. Also the NVMe drive and the chipset do not share bandwidth and the chipset has more then enough bandwidth available to saturate all SATA ports full performance at the same time.

With the Ryzen CPU supporting ECC memory the AM4 X370 Ryzen platform makes an excellent base for a storage server!