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today we would take a look at or is's ad in car this is their nvme they've got a 512 gigabyte flavor as well is a one terabyte flavor right here on the desk they sent over the 1 terabyte info review and there's some good points there's some bad points they're starting off with one of the coolest things is that if you've got an old PC like this Dell Vostro that I got here on the desk and it supports PCIe boot then you can add in the nvme drive and get nvme speeds on your older pc so things like x79 and even some of those wanan boards coming off of Aliexpress I can imagine you could do some cool things with that and considering the prices okay it's at a decent price point they've got the 512 gigabyte version starting out at 149 USD in Australia 239 AUD and then think of the one terabyte coming in at 249 USD and then in Australia 399 AUD so the one terabyte version which is what we've got here looks like it's better value in terms of per gigabyte per dollar and it also carries through with double the terabytes written rating where the one terabyte has sixteen hundred terabytes written and then the 512 gigabyte carries eight hundred terabytes written they both carry a five-year limited warranty and the both rated at 1.8 million hours mean time before failure which is absolutely huge I think that's longer than most humans live but with that aside let's get straight into the tests and see what is good and bad about this drive welcome back to tech yesterday and right here we've got the Auris RGB AIC nvme SSD so it's essentially a normal nvme pcie 3.0 x4 solution except they've added in 11 RGB LEDs which is the first part I'm going to critique about this piece of hardware is that when I put it into my Z 370 system and then loaded up the RGB fusion 2.0 software it didn't actually allow me to change the RGB colors at all and on that note it was actually changing the RAM color on a different brand of memory from Team Group so I was a little bit surprised to see that happening but the other additional software kit that they've got the tool box that actually worked pretty well it reads out your temperatures supports things like trim and shows you the status of your SSD however as I've critiqued in the past some of gigabytes software I'd like to see them overhaul this integrate the two into one so you could actually change the colors of your SSDs RGB lighting that would be great now speaking of the LED lights they don't add really any heat to the drive itself the whole power consumption is around about 6 watts on this SSD even with those RGB LED lights on but when I was stress testing this SSD the temperatures were really good coming in at 31 degrees Celsius on the surface and 33 degrees in the software this is in a 24 degree ambient controlled environment so the temperatures are really good this is a 375 gram weighted hate sinks so it's absolutely huge but looking underneath the hood in terms of the hardware they've put on this they've got a fire sync controller believe it is the p55 0 1 to e 12 or otherwise known as the e 12 they've got two sk hynix 512 megabyte ddr3 burst banks to make a total of one gigabyte of ddr3 burst cache now in terms of the actual NAND flash they're using this is Toshiba 64 layer 3d TLC nan it says on the banks themselves the model numbers ta five nine six five five aiv and all that comes on a black PCB I also will mention the build quality does feel very solid on this unit there's no squeaky or loose parts but what about the most important thing and that is the speeds why I decided to run three different tests compared against the Samsung Evo that I have here the 970 as well as the Corsair mp5 10 both are pretty value oriented solutions out there on the market great for 4k video editors who need really fast speeds over the pcie 3.0 spec and what we saw here with the one gigabyte AS SSD tests to test burst speeds was that we're getting very high read and write speeds practically saturating the PCI gen3 x4 slot but moving down to the 4k read and writes the random reading rights there were a little bit underperforming on both the read and the writes I tested this a few times and I'm not entirely sure what's going on there but the Q depth test showed speeds that were very good especially on the right side and then the access times were mediocre and this gave a total score of 6200 46 points moving over to the inputs and outputs we had over 450,000 input outputs per second on the read side and then on the right side getting close to that of 700,000 changing things over however to the 10 gigabyte tests show that read and write speeds were both sustainable on sequential 's 4k random reading writes were the same however the queue depth did drop down both on the read and writes and then the access times were the same and the input and outputs per second the maximum were under 400,000 and then under that of 550,000 this time around though what about one of the most important tests that I run here with any storage solution and that is the HD tune Pro test this is the 100 gigabyte torture test that I put practically every drive that comes through here through and the speed showed that after about 25 gigabytes of sustained writes the speeds dropped substantially from those scores that we saw in a SSD down to around about 1,100 megabytes per second and then the read speeds did sort of remain consistent around 3,000 megabytes per second however on two different tests the read speeds did have some big dips I'd say that have to be with maxing out the controller on board so what we're seeing here is something that's similar to the other solutions on the market like the Samsung and also the Corsair in that they're pretty much using the same TLC NAND flash maximizing what they can out of it however the burst speeds are great however it will drop down to Stover that of a gigabyte per second which is still actually really good if you want to use it for 4k video editing is a scratch drive or use it over a 10 gigabit per second home or business networking solution it will provide those speeds consistently but now of course it's conclusion time with this SSD what do I think of it and I think for the money it's decent I mean the one terabyte solution at 249 USD is pretty good providing you can find it in stock I could only find the 512 gigabyte solution available on the market on Amazon and in Australia I couldn't find these for sale just yet I will update the description when I get some more news on that but in terms of its performance it's pretty much mediocre I guess I'd put it pretty much in the middle of the field at least in terms of what I've got here I mean Samsung are kind of leading that in terms of consistency and performance but they've decided to add in the RGB bling as well as provide a big heatsink to keep the temperatures down and it does seem to work but we have to go back to those consistencies on the raid speeds in HD tune Pro where they were dipping substantially from time to time and then we also have to look at the software which is still a little bit buggy so if those two things don't bother you and you do want to get this and just whack it in and get pretty good speeds then it is going to deliver on that front but it's not the best SSD I've seen but it's certainly not the worst I've seen either and with that aside I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon if you enjoyed this review then be sure to hit that like button for us and also if you enjoyed the content your model and hit that sub button ring the bell and I'll catch you next time peace out for now bye