Page 2 - A Closer Look, Test System
This SSD may share the same namesake as the Netac NV7000-t, but the appearances are different. Instead of a glossy finish, this Q version has a more muted design with a matte finish. The stylized "X" on the label is neat with a nice mix of blue and white. On this tag, you can see the Netac logo on the left and the product name and description on the right. Physically speaking, this is an M.2 2280 SSD. The "2280" standard refers to its physical size of 22mm by 80mm. The components are located on the black printed circuit board, which we will take a glance at shortly. The Netac NV7000-Q 1TB is PlayStation 5-compatible, since the total thickness is below 11.25mm.
The Netac NV7000-Q 1TB works on the NVMe 1.4 logical device interface and plugs into compatible motherboards directly. Electrically, this M.2 NVMe drive interfaces with PCIe 4.0. The NV7000-Q 1TB uses up to four lanes for a theoretical maximum of 8000MB/s bandwidth in each direction. Its specified weight is 5g.
There are no components of interest on the flip side of the Netac NV7000-Q 1TB. Instead, a second label is found here, and it contains miscellaneous information such as the model name, serial number, and regulatory certifications. According to the date, this was manufactured in April 2024. Unsurprisingly, this Netac SSD is manufactured in China. It also states that removing this label will void the warranty, but there is nothing behind this label to look at.
Taking a closer look, you can see almost all the parts of the Netac NV7000-Q 1TB under the heatsink sticker. The first is the Maxio Technology MAP1602A-F3C. This is an NVMe solution on the M.2 socket that uses the PCIe 4.0 standard. It is built on the 12nm process with a 32-bit ARM Cortex R5 quad-core processor. This is the same controller found in the Lexar NM710 and the aforementioned NV7000-t. There is no memory found on the drive itself, but rather the memory for the controller is located within the controller. This is a bit of a disadvantage to have no DRAM, as this can affect prolonged read and write performance. To alleviate this, some SSDs without DRAM may utilize HMB, or host memory buffer, and allocate some of the system's memory as a buffer location for faster access compared to flash NAND access. This is the case with the Netac NV7000-Q 1TB.
The NV7000-Q 1TB's flash memory is two NAND chips labeled as YMC8G004Tb74CA1C0. These are YMTC, or Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp, Xtacking 3.0 chips, which are 232-layer quad-level cell chips. Each NAND flash has 4096Mb or 512GB for a total of 1TB together. As you can see, there is area to add two chips, although there is no 2TB variant of the NV7000-Q. Its rated write endurance is 640TBW, which works out to just over 350GB written per day for five years. This matches closely with the Western Digital WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe SSD 1TB and Crucial P5 Plus 1TB. This is also the same endurance rating as the NV7000-t. Traditionally, QLC-based SSDs have had shorter write endurance. However, if Netac's claims hold true, this is an encouraging sign towards the advancement of QLC flash memory technology being used in consumer SSDs. Internally, 24GB out of the 1024GB total capacity -- just under 3% -- is provisioned for the drive controller for overhead, so the actual usable space is 1TB, as advertised. In Windows, you will see 931.5GB available. The rated power consumption was not provided.
To see how all this hardware translates to numbers in our benchmarks, we will pit the NV7000-Q against other SSDs from manufacturers like ADATA, Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot, and Western Digital in the next seven pages or so.
Our test configuration is as follows:
CPU: Intel Core i5-12600K
CPU Cooling: be quiet! Dark Rock Elite
Motherboard: ASUS ProArt Z690-Creator WiFi
RAM: Crucial Pro Overclocking DDR5-6000 2x16GB
Graphics: EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING
Chassis: Thermaltake Core P3 TG Pro Snow
Storage: XPG Atom 30 1TB
Power: FSP Hydro PTM Pro 1200W
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
Compared Hardware:
- Netac NV7000-Q 1TB
- ADATA Legend 960 1TB
- Corsair MP600 Core XT 2TB
- Corsair MP600 Elite 2TB
- Crucial P3 Plus 1TB
- Crucial P3 Plus 4TB
- Crucial P5 Plus 1TB
- Crucial P5 Plus 2TB (Heatsink Version)
- Crucial T500 2TB
- Kingston FURY Renegade 1TB
- Kingston KC3000 1TB
- Lexar NM710 1TB
- Lexar PLAY 1TB
- Lexar Professional NM800 PRO 2TB
- Netac NV7000-t 1TB
- Patriot P400 1TB
- Western Digital WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe SSD 1TB
- Western Digital WD_BLACK SN770M 2TB
- Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850 NVMe SSD 1TB
- XPG Atom 50 1TB
- XPG Gammix S70 Blade 1TB
Page Index
1. Introduction, Packaging, Specifications
2. A Closer Look, Test System
3. Benchmark: AIDA64 Disk Benchmark
4. Benchmark: ATTO Disk Benchmark
5. Benchmark: Crystal Disk Mark 8.0
6. Benchmark: HD Tune Pro 5.70
7. Benchmark: PassMark PerformanceTest 10
8. Benchmark: PCMark 10
9. Benchmark: 3DMark
10. Conclusion
