HUADISK HV2000 Pro Review

Thanks to the rise of YMTC, SSD prices have kept falling. During the recent 618 shopping festival, even premium brands such as Samsung cut their prices. Of course, when it comes to price wars, domestic brands lead the way.

The Chinese-made HUADISK HV2000 Pro 1TB costs only 230 yuan, with PCIe 3.0 speeds, a Maxio 1202 controller and YMTC TLC NAND — at this price, what more could you ask for?

SSD Overview:

The black packaging with the red HUADISK logo has a bit of an esports vibe.

The Chinese slogan reads “Fast and stable, never flashy!” A rising Chinese SSD brand, committed to quality control, with strict high-temperature burn-in testing — full of Chinese style.

Five-year warranty. There is also a flagship store on Pinduoduo, where the price is 17 yuan cheaper than on JD. Just over 200 yuan for 1TB with a three-year warranty (up to 600TBW) — at this price, capacity and speed, what more could you ask for!

Accessories include mounting screws.

Don't underestimate the thin red-and-black label — its internal structure is quite sophisticated: a printed layer + graphene + metal layer + graphene + adhesive layer, providing passive cooling for the SSD's controller and NAND.

With the spread of high-capacity 3D NAND, not just 1TB but even 2TB SSDs now use a single-sided PCB design, which is friendlier for laptop upgrades.

The gold fingers are electroplated.

Performance Testing:

In CrystalDiskMark, sequential read speed reaches 3500MB/s and sequential write reaches 3200MB/s.

AS SSD score as high as 4000!

In TxBENCH, sequential read/write results are consistent with CrystalDiskMark.

Anvil's Storage Utilities results: 3000MB/s, with a write result of 2852MB/s.

PCMark 10 Express score: 5677.

These read/write results essentially reach the limit of a PCIe 3.0 SSD.

In the HD Tune Pro test, the HV3000 PRO 1TB uses full-drive SLC cache writing. Testing shows an SLC policy of 30GB, and beyond 30GB the speed still holds at 1000MB/s.

Software Comparison:

DiskGenius Free

Connect the old system drive and the new SSD to the same computer — that goes without saying, right?

Download DiskGenius from the official website (link: https://www.diskgenius.cn/), install it, accept the agreement, and click System Migration at the top.

Select the drive letter of the source disk.

Then select the new drive, i.e. the target drive you want to migrate the system to.

The system partition and ESP partition sizes can basically be left at their defaults. Partition management is handled automatically from when the system was installed on the source disk, so you can ignore it. Remember to check the option to change the boot order after completion — we recommend choosing automatic setup to boot from the migrated target system — and check the option to prevent the system from sleeping during execution.

Double-check that the target drive is empty — so we don't recommend saving any files to the target drive before migration — then click OK.

Choose hot migration here.

Then just wait a few minutes. When finished, shut down; we recommend removing the old system drive.

Otherwise the system will still boot from the old drive, and you will need to enter the BIOS to change the boot order. This final step is the same for the following programs, so it won't be repeated.

AOMEI Partition Assistant Paid

Wow — it was free last year, but it has become paid this year.

Download AOMEI Backupper from the official website. Link: https://www.disktool.cn/backup/backup-software.html

After installation, go straight to the Clone section and select System Clone.

Select the new drive, i.e. the target drive you want to migrate the system to. Note that the drive letter is still F at this point. Click Next once selected.

The new drive will be formatted — it holds no data anyway, right? Just click OK.

Here comes the key step: be sure to check SSD Alignment and Sector-by-Sector Clone, which ensures the greatest possible stability of the cloned system. Then click Start Clone.

Next, just wait a few minutes.

The system clone is complete; just restart. In terms of ease of use, it falls short of the first program.

Acronis True Image: Paid

Seeing a paid program, you're probably not very interested, haha. I paid out of my own pocket to take these screenshots. Having looked at related tutorials online, I feel it's not as easy to use as DiskGenius.

Conclusion:

DiskGenius is still the GOAT — easy to use for system migration, and free!