Some may think that modern SSDs are not very fast. If desired, the drive can be overclocked
Blogger Gabriel Ferraz conducted an experiment with an SSD drive. He decided to try to overclock it and show what kind of performance gain can be obtained in this way.
Gabriel Ferraz's test subject was the RZX Pro 256 GB, SATA III drive, without DRAM cache. For overclocking, he purchased a SATA III to USB 3.0 adapter with a JMS578 chip. As a result, he was able to increase the frequency of the Silicon Motion SM2259XT2 controller from 400 to 500 MHz, and the frequency of the memory chips increased from 193 to 400 MHz.
The manufacturer made sure that the system reported temperature of 40 degrees, even if the SSD is colder or hotter. Gabriel Ferraz bypassed this limitation and found out that the real temperature after overclocking did not exceed 45 degrees (while the “maximum” is considered to be 54 degrees, i.e. it is still far from it).
A certain difference is noticeable, but in the case of the game Final Fantasy XIV the result is 11.7 seconds. versus 11.6 (before/after overclocking). When transferring 6.2 GB to an SSD, the difference was 1.1 seconds. (14.1 versus 13 for the overclocked one), i.e. it will appear on large amounts of data.
Video: https://youtu.be/ylNHbyI0SkA
