HUADISK HV3000 Review

Most readers are already familiar with the market climate of recent years. Huawei lost its Kirin chips, Qualcomm stopped pushing hard, and smartphone prices kept rising. On the PC side, especially in flash storage, the rise of domestic Chinese NAND has driven memory and high-capacity SSD prices steadily down. Amusingly, ever since domestic NAND took off, the major international storage makers such as Samsung and Hynix no longer seem to suffer from fires and power outages.

The HV3000 SSD comes in a 2TB capacity and uses TLC NAND across the entire lineup. Many high-capacity SSDs today have moved to QLC NAND, which is cheaper but less durable. Choosing TLC certainly costs more, but offers better endurance than QLC. As for high-capacity MLC, it is essentially out of the question for consumer products and offers no value for money at all. TLC therefore strikes the right balance between quality and cost-effectiveness.

Unboxing:

The HUADISK HV3000 packaging is remarkably compact — smaller than a smartphone. To some extent, this is one of the ways costs are kept down so the product can be priced lower.

Although the box states a five-year warranty, it has since been changed to a three-year warranty.

The branded label with the product model is a multi-layer graphene and copper foil composite that helps dissipate heat from the NAND and controller. That said, most motherboards today already come with M.2 metal heatsinks. Mounting screws are also included.

No SSD review is complete without a look at the NAND and controller. The HV3000 uses the Maxio MAP1602 controller.

It carries four YMTC NAND packages, each with a capacity of 500GB; the NAND part number is HGCD02CE44838.

The flash is YMTC TLC, using YMTC's third-generation 128-layer 3D NAND with the Xtacking architecture, which increases storage density, lowers power consumption and significantly boosts interface bandwidth, allowing DRAM-less SSDs to deliver impressive performance as well. In principle, YMTC's Xtacking architecture processes the peripheral circuitry and the memory cells on two separate wafers, allowing greater freedom in logic process choices and giving the NAND more I/O channels and higher interface speeds. For example, the latest Xtacking-based NAND features four flash channels and interface bandwidth of up to 2400MT/s. The most important development direction for 3D NAND is the optimization of storage density.

In conventional 3D NAND architectures, the peripheral CMOS circuitry takes up about 20-30% of the die area. Xtacking innovatively places the peripheral circuitry above the memory cells, achieving higher storage density than conventional 3D NAND and reducing die area by about 25%.

The label on the back bears the SN serial number. Removing it is not recommended, as it affects the product warranty.

The HV3000 2TB uses a single-sided PCB layout. If both sides were populated, 4TB would be no problem at all.

Performance Testing:

Time to test. The test platform is an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D with an MSI MEG X670E ACE motherboard and ADATA DDR5 6000MHz 16GB×2 memory with EXPO support.

An overview of the HV3000 2TB SSD: it supports the NVMe 1.4 protocol with a PCIe 4.0 x4 transfer mode — a genuine PCIe 4.0 SSD.

In the 3DMark storage benchmark, the HV3000 2TB scored 2815, above average.

In the PCMark 8 SSD test, it scored 5094.

Empty-Drive Testing:

The 1GB mode is clearly a piece of cake, easily meeting spec.

In 32GB mode, sequential read/write speeds still match the official claims of 4800MB/s read and 4500MB/s write.

For comparison, we included a 2TB Asgard drive as a reference. A 2TB SSD from 2019 simply cannot match today's HUADISK HV3000 of the same capacity in read/write speed — a testament to how quickly Chinese SSDs have advanced.

Filled-Drive Testing:

52% Capacity:

Some people worry that SSDs slow down significantly as they fill up, so we tested this as well. We loaded Steam game library files occupying 997GB. With more than 52% of the HUADISK HV3000 2TB's capacity in use, read/write speeds still matched the official claims of 4800MB/s read and 4500MB/s write.

93% Capacity:

Even at 93% capacity, i.e. 1.7TB used, the HUADISK HV3000 2TB's sequential read/write speeds remained blazing fast. The only drop was in random write speed, from 3000MB/s to 1700MB/s — still very fast.

Temperature Testing:

Using a Hikvision thermal imager, the HV3000's peak temperature during read/write testing was 60°C, located at the controller. With the motherboard's M.2 heatsink installed, thermal performance would be even better.

Conclusion:

Load times in large games often depend on the drive's read/write speed. As AAA titles keep growing — GTA V alone takes up 100GB — and early high-capacity PCIe 4.0 SSDs were expensive, many people were still using hard drives. Now, with the rapid rise of YMTC NAND and the efforts of domestic SSD makers, consumers can enjoy high-quality, affordable, high-capacity PCIe 4.0 SSDs, making a large-capacity gaming SSD a standard part of any PC build.