Toshiba RC100 NVMe SSD Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks

The sequential read performance isn't all that impressive compared to other NVMe SSDs, but then again this 240GB drive costs just $70~75 USD and will come in faster than SATA 3.0 SSDs and HDDs... A wider variety of storage benchmarks on this system will be featured in the larger Intel 660p Linux review.

The sequential write speeds yield a better showing for the RC100 compared to the other drives, but obviously the higher-end NVMe SSDs will yield better performance should you care about that more than GB-per-dollar.

Obviously if you are running any sort of heavy database workloads on the RC100, the performance will certainly struggle.

Even for SQLite that is common to many desktop applications, the RC100 performance will be quite slow.

Stay tuned for more tests in the imminent Intel 660p SSD Linux testing article... That SSD should be quite interesting at $99 USD for a 512GB NVMe SSD with QLC NAND (or $200 USD for 1TB). But if you are looking for just a 200~256GB NVMe SSD, the OCZ RC100 remains one of the cheapest options albeit with sacrificing performance. I purchased the Toshiba RC100 for a low-end system specifically for its price and for that it comes in line with my expectations, but had I been aware of the impending 660p launch, I would have certainly held off on that purchase.

If you want to see how your own Linux system(s) storage performance compares to these drives under test, simply install the Phoronix Test Suite and run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1808083-RA-TOSHIBARC91.