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China SSD Speed Test Review

Recently, I have decided to purchase China brand (Zheino and Goldenfir) SSDs to upgrade the mechanical harddisks that I have at home. 

I was experiencing slowness on my Lenovo U41 laptop and suspected that it is caused by a failing harddisk. I did replace with another harddisk but the problem still exists. At that time I managed to find a Zheino brand 512GB SSD on offer (SGD$25.48 @Lazada) and quickly purchased it. Initially I was looking at KingSpecs but the price rose from $18+ to $29+ so I decided not to get it. I have reviewed Zheino previously when I was looking for SSD but did not make any purchase as I have quite a few spare harddisk to use. Since the price is less than SGD$30 for 512GB SSD, it was worthy to purchase and test it out myself. 

Image from Lazada

After it arrived, I installed the Zheino 512GB SSD into my Lenovo U41 laptop and reinstalled Linux Lite(My favorite Linux distribution right now). After the installation, I noticed that copying files from a external harddisk to my laptop was pretty slow. Likely the Linux drivers are not updated and cause the slowness. After the laptop is fully updated, the copying speed seem to have improved.  

Speed test done on Lenovo U41

So far, I do not have any complains with Zheino SSD. Its read/write speed is similar to what it has advertised and is faster than my previous mechanical harddisk. My laptop boot up time improves a lot and file transfer or loading of applications seems snappy as well. This SSD is a worthy investment. 


Later on, I noticed that there is a big discount for Goldenfir 360GB SSD on Shopee. It cost SGD$13.63 and I purchased it at SGD$11.38 (after free @collection point and use of Shopee coins). I decided to put it into my Lenovo Thinkpad X201i laptop which does not have a SSD. It is actually faster compared to my Lenovo Thinkpad X200 and comes with a working battery but the wireless NIC is no longer working so I have to use a TPLINK USB wireless adaptor to access WiFi. This caused me to lose a USB port and also it already has a spoiled USB port as well. I still prefer CPU speed and working battery compared to other flaws. 

I initially wanted to do a full format but after it takes too long, I decide against it. Then I replace it into my Thinkpad X201i. However, I noticed that the Goldenfir casing seems to be slightly larger at the bottom as I could not screw in all the screws to the harddisk casing. I also could not put the 2 rubber holder to secure the SSD in the harddisk slot on the laptop. I have to use cardboard to hold the SSD in place. 

When I try to install Linux Lite using USB drive, I was unable to load the Linux Lite for the installation. It is only when I use compatibility mode then it works. After installing Linux Lite, there is no more issue on the SSD. 

Image from Shopee

After I installed all my favorite apps and updated the laptop, I decided to run KDiskMark on the laptop and below is the results for the Goldenfir 360GB SSD. 

Speed test on Lenovo Thinkpad X201i
As you can see, the results compared to the advertised read/write, 532MB/s (Read) and 484MB/s(Write) differs a lot from what I got. Maybe it is due to the SATA version on the laptop(2010 model) as I suspect it is not SATA version 3. Seems to be running SATA 2@300MB/s(3Gb/s).

Data Transfer Rate For SATA
SATA (SATA-I) = 150 MB/s (1.5 Gb/s)
SATA-II or SATA 2 =  300 MB/s (3.0 Gb/s)
SATA 3 = 600 MB/s (6.0 Gb/s)


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