In the real world, the Aura P12 tied the Kingston KC2500 when performing 48GB transfers. IDGįor some reason, likely to do with cache, the Aura P12 wasn’t quite ace reading or writing 4K files. Normally, the results of the 4K tests vary so little that I don’t even include them, but the Aura P12’s were significantly slower than the norm. Fewer-queue and no-queue 4K transfers lagged by the same amount. Moving on to the next test (below), however, it didn’t do particularly well (for an NVMe drive) with the 4K transfers. Longer bars are better.Īs you can see above, the Aura P12 aced the sequential reading and writing tests. IDGĬrystalDiskMark 6 rated the Aura P12’s sequential transfers as very good. However, we did get some unexpected scores with queued 4K files.

You’d likely never notice any dropoff from the other drives it’s compared to, unless you copy very large amounts of data. The rest of the industry is catching up fast: After our initial write-up, Sabrent released a 4TB NVMe QLC SSD and an 8TB QLC SSD.įor the most part, the Aura P12 performed very well.

The drive is available in five capacities starting at 240GB ( $59 from OWC Remove non-product link), 480GB ( $90 from OWC Remove non-product link), 1TB ( $159 from OWC Remove non-product link), 2TB ( $349 from OWC Remove non-product link), and 4TB ($929 from OWC), respectively. The Aura P19 is your standard 2280 (22 mm wide, 80 mm long) form factor, but with TLC NAND on both sides it may not fit some super-thin laptops or devices. Go there for information on competing products and how we tested them. This review is part of our ongoing roundup of the best SSDs. However, as you might guess, it’s going to set you back a bit of coin. Not only does it double the typical maximum capacity of today’s SSDs, it offers excellent everyday performance.

The OWC Aura P12 has an answer for the lack of capacity in NVMe drives: 4TB.

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