Another major concern with lesser-known SSD brands is whether their drives’ actual performance can keep up with advertised speeds. In Fanxiang’s case, their performance is very solid.

In the 1980s, the fangxiang was expanded to include 51 keys. The keys were arranged based on 12-tone equal temperament and double scale arrangement. On the top lane, it is the C# scale, and on the bottom lane it is the C major scale ranging from f to C 4. The shelf used for holding those keys can rise up and fall down for the convenience of performing. [ citation needed] The new design of the fangxiang sounds clear and melodious, and it is really good for accompaniments in the Chinese traditional orchestra music. For example, in the music "The Great Wall Capriccio", [6] it is used to sound like a bell. All in all, Fanxiang SSDs are some of the best value drives on the market. They’re cheap but durable, with speeds that rival their Samsung and Western Digital-made counterparts.

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We can estimate that a hard drive could extract an update at an average write speed of 50 MB/s and read speed of 200 MB/s. At this rate, a hard disk drive would take 1.5 minutes to extract 6 GB of files during the game update. This lifespan value is an estimate of how long the SSD will last. Various factors can impact the actual lifespan, but lifespan estimates indicate how long you can expect the SSD to last. It's important to note that these values are estimates and can be affected by various factors such as usage patterns, environmental conditions, and other factors. Nonetheless, we feel these lifespan estimates provide a good indication of the duration you can expect the SSD to last before it starts showing signs of wear and tear. Our testing uses the Fanxiang S660 4TB as the boot drive for the system, installed in the M.2_1 slot on the motherboard. This slot supports up to PCIe Gen 5 x4. The drive is filled to 85% capacity with data, and then some is deleted, leaving around 60% used space on the volume. Currently the S770 is the highest-end product available from Fanxiang in the US, with read speeds up to 7300 MB/s, write speeds up to 6800 MB/s, and capacities up to 2TB. The S880 is a close second, with the same max reads and max writes up to 6600 MB/s, with a maximum capacity of 1TB.

As for the drive itself, the Fanxiang S660 4TB comes in a single-sided M.2 2280 (80mm) form factor. Fanxiang S660 4TB Front

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Likewise, many tests of the 256GB model reveal slightly better speeds than advertised: 2886MB/s and 2182MB/s sequential reads and writes, versus advertised speeds of 2800MB/s and 2000MB/s for these metrics. The S770’s 2TB variation is the cheapest drive of its capacity by far in the 7000-plus MB/s class, as is the S880 1TB in the same category.

High customer review averages are of the utmost importance, since defect rate can’t be gauged by testing one or even several units. Over thousands of units, however, a brand’s consistency and QC quality becomes more apparent. Fanxiang’s Quality Control process Fanxiang Drive Speeds CrystalDiskInfo can give us some basic information about the SSD and confirms we are operating at PCIe 4.0 x4 speeds using NVMe 1.4. Test System Configuration Fangxiang Song (Fangxiang Ge) 作者：李沇（唐） by Li Yan (Tang dynasty) 敲金扣石声相凌，遥空冷静天正澄。 宝瓶下井辘轳急，小娃弄索伤清冰。 穿丝透管音未歇，回风绕指惊泉咽。 季伦怒击珊瑚摧，灵芸整鬓步摇折。 十六叶中侵素光，寒玲震月杂珮珰。 云和不觉罢余怨，莲峰一夜啼琴姜。 急节写商商恨促，秦愁越调逡巡足。 梦入仙楼戛残曲，飞霜棱棱上秋玉。 《方响》 Fangxiang 作者：陆龟蒙（唐） by Lu Guimeng (Tang dynasty,?-881) 击霜寒玉乱丁丁，花底秋风拂坐生。 王母闲看汉天子，满猗兰殿佩环声。 Music contribution [ edit ] Their SATA SSDs, most notably the S101, are similarly priced to compete, but we don’t think these merit as much consideration since the only real use-case for these is in builds with insufficient or no M.2 slots. With these slots becoming increasingly ubiquitous in motherboards every year, SATA SSDs are on their way out, as NVMe becomes the new gold standard. Fanxiang Quality

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The S660 4TB, by contrast, reached reads of 5,057MB/s – not bad – but writes of just 406MB/s, which is atrocious for an SSD. Serve the Home achieved these results on CrystalDiskMark. What sets Fanxiang apart from the competition is its pricing. Take the Fanxiang S500 Pro 1TB drive as an example: It’s a TLC SSD rated for 640TBW with maximum write speeds of around 3500MB/s, but it’s cheaper than many SSDs that are less durable and sport lower-durability QLC NAND memory, such as the Crucial P3 (with an endurance rating of 220TBW). In ancient times, the fangxiang was a popular instrument in Chinese court music. It was introduced to Korea, where it is called banghyang (hangul: 방향; hanja: 方響) and is still used in the court music of Korea. A similar instrument used in Japan is called hōkyō (kanji: 方響). [1] The fangxiang first appeared in China in the Liang dynasty, one of the Northern and Southern dynasties (502–557). During the Sui and Tang dynasties (581–840), the instrument became a popular court instrument. There were many famous fangxiang performers at that time, including Xianqi Ma and Bing Wu. Also at that time, many poets created sets of lyrics intended to be accompanied by fangxiang. [ citation needed] Hard disk drives will extract files slower due to the resulting files being non-contiguous (i.e., spread out across the disk). Because storage device writes are often slower than reading speeds, we've found that game installs/ patches can be pretty frustrating to wait for if you're using a slower storage device.