Pascari X200E 6.4TB Performance by CPU Architecture
Now that we are firmly in the PCIe Gen5 era, we have a number of AMD, Intel, and even AmpereOne platforms to test the drives in to see the differences in performance based on architecture. These are small, but important.
Since that is hard to read, we have a zoomed-in view below without a 0 X-axis.
We see a similar trend to the previous PCIe Gen4 generation. Something that was small but notable is that Pascari seems to have a closer Intel to AMD gap for us across newer architectures. It is small but it is there.
It is fun to see that not all PCIe controllers are created equally and that there are differences even based on the platform the drive is put into.
Final Words
Pascari is trying to do something that is objectively difficult. Breaking into the enterprise SSD market is not easy as server vendors have their own supply chains and that goes all the way down to even the bespoke workstation vendors. We can see that Phison’s Pascari division has great performance on its devices, that much is clear. The next question is going to be how effective Phison is in its effort to bring its branded Pascari drives to the server and storage vendors where large semiconductor manufacturers tend to dominate.
From a performance perspective at least, the Phison Pascari X200E is an awesome drive. This is not just a slighly faster PCIe Gen5 SSD, it is one that puts a huge gap between it and the PCIe Gen4 drives in its segment. That performance gap was not as evident with earlier drives, but it is on full display here. This is a great first drive in its enterprise SSD series.
