Disk
The Minisforum AI X1 Pro was supplied with a Kingston NAND (QLC) 1TB NVMe PCIe Gen 4 M.2 which has an advertised maximum read speed of 6,100 MB/s and a maximum write speed of 5,300 MB/s write.
Here are the results with KDiskMark, an open source GUI tool which calls Flexible I/O Tester.
The machine came with Windows 11 preinstalled. Before wiping the disk and installing Linux, I ran CrystalDiskMark.
The AI X1 Pro has a SD card slot which is designed for photography enthusiasts and professional photographers. I benchmarked the slot using a super-fast 1TB microSD card (and a few other cards just to confirm the results).
The SD card slot is USB 2.0 performance. I achieve significantly better benchmarks using the microSD card with a USB adapter.
For the next article in the series, I’ll assess the machine’s power consumption under various workloads.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Processor
Page 2 – Graphics
Page 3 – Memory
Page 4 – Disk
Complete list of articles in this series:
| Minisforum AI X1 Pro | |
|---|---|
| Introduction | Introduction to the series and interrogation of the Minisforum AI X1 Pro |
| Benchmarks | Benchmarking the Minisforum AI X1 Pro |