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Built at end of July 2020

part	item	price
mobo	ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4AM4/USB3.2/HDMI/RJ45 Motherboard	$155
CPU	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core, 24-thread unlocked desktop processor with Wraith Prism LED Cooler	$419
RAM	2 x Kingston KSM26ED8/16ME Server Premier - DDR4-16 GB 2666 MHz / PC4-21300 CL19-1.2V unbuffered ECC	2 x $98
storage	Corsair Force Series Gen.4 PCIe MP600 500GB NVMe M.2 SSD	$110
storage	Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Internal SSD Extreme Performance Solid State Drive with Heatsink	$180
PSU	Apevia ATX-PR600W Prestige 600W 80+ Gold Certified	$53
case	Antec Performance Series P82 Flow ATX Mid-Tower Case	$65
	Total	$1,178

nvme benchmark

benchmark	Corsair MP600 500GB	Sabrent Rocket 4 1TB w/o heatsink	Sabrent Rocket 4 1TB w/ heatsink
seq read 1mb Q=8 T=1	11.7 GB/s	12.5 GB/s	8273 MB/s
seq write 1mb Q=8 T=1	2775 MB/s	4178 MB/s	3806 MB/s
seq write 1mb Q=1 T=1	6551 MB/s	5546 MB/s	7121 MB/s
seq read 1mb Q=1 T=1	2396 MB/s	2691 MB/s	3661 MB/s
random read 4kb Q=32 T=1	564 MB/s	560 MB/s	571 MB/s
random write 4kb Q=32 T=1	172 MB/s	249 MB/s	246 MB/s
random read 4kb Q=1 T=1	205 MB/s	294 MB/s	295 MB/s
random read 4kb Q=1 T=1	145 MB/s	210 MB/s	198 MB/s
random read/write 4kb Q=32 T=1	read 145 MB/s write 116 MB/s	read 312 MB/s write 134 MB/s	read 310 MB/s write 133 MB/s
random read/write 4kb Q=1 T=1	read 129 MB/s write 55.2 MB/s	read 159 MB/s write 68.4 MB/s	read 145 MB/s write 62.1 MB/s

benchmark	Corsair MP600 500GB	Sabrent Rocket 4 1TB w/o heatsink	Sabrent Rocket 4 1TB w/ heatsink
seq read 1mb Q=8 T=1	10,510	11,906	6,366
seq write 1mb Q=8 T=1	2,633	4,083	3,682
seq write 1mb Q=1 T=1	6,239	4,443	6,750
seq read 1mb Q=1 T=1	2,337	2,528	3,391
random read 4kb Q=32 T=1	134,764	135,712	136,565
random write 4kb Q=32 T=1	41,645	59,735	59,022
random read 4kb Q=1 T=1	49,531	70,986	71,704
random read 4kb Q=1 T=1	35,165	51,303	48,485
random read/write 4kb Q=32 T=1	read 65,344 write 28,114	read 74,991 32,257	read 75,287 32,384
random read/write 4kb Q=1 T=1	read 31,260 write 134,27	read 38,727 38,727	read 35,258 15,144

simple iops bench with diskinfo -a and latency with ioping -c 50

benchmark	Corsair MP600 500GB	Sabrent Rocket 4 1TB w/o heatsink	Sabrent Rocket 4 1TB w/ heatsink
4kb sector	727,443	682,646	697,799
32kb sector	172,254	172,268	172,248
128kb sector	43,026	43,055	43,034
ioping -c 50 avg	24.5 μs	24.4 μs	24.5 μs