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 machine |
| Benchmarks | Benchmarking the Minisforum AI X1 Pro |
| Power | Testing and comparing the power consumption |
| Jan | ChatGPT without privacy concerns |
| ComfyUI | Generate video, images, 3D, audio with AI |
| AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Cores | Primary (Zen 5) and Secondary Cores (Zen 5c) |
| Gerbil | Run large language models locally |
| Neural Processing Unit (NPU) | Introduction |
| Gaia | Run LLM Agents |
Thanks for this article, very interesting results!!
Are you running stock Ubuntu 24.04 kernel, or did you upgrade the kernel due to the bluetooth issue?
The benchmarks were run using the 6.17.0rc kernel.