HUADISK HV3000 Pro Review

YMTC-based storage has been a superstar this year. Traditional brands such as ADATA and Asgard have been routed, and even Samsung, which has never joined price wars, has had to bow its proud head.

Good bullets have been around for a long time, but good marksmen are rare. Here we must not forget Maxio's controller contribution to the market.

Maxio is a Chinese controller company, and all of its current controllers are actively tuned for YMTC NAND to achieve the best speed. With Maxio's support, YMTC-based SSDs have become both fast and stable.

However, Maxio is not without drawbacks. According to feedback from brands, many Maxio-based solutions suffer from issues such as thermal throttling.
PS: Because prices are so low, most people simply buy first and rely on the warranty.

Today's stars are the HUADISK HV3000 2TB and HV3000 Pro 2TB NVMe SSDs. The former pairs a Maxio 1602 controller with YMTC Taishan TLC NAND, while the latter uses the same controller with Wudangshan TLC NAND.

Wudangshan NAND is what most people know as the 7400MB/s solution, which some brands “round up” to 7500MB/s in their marketing.

The heatsink shown above comes in separate packaging and is designed for the HV3000 Pro. When you purchase the HV3000 Pro directly, we include the heatsink as a gift.

This heatsink fits standard-size M.2 SSDs. Once installed, the SSD looks like an armored Rammus — and that damage-reflecting skin effect looks pretty cool.

Software confirms the origin of the NAND: HUADISK's NAND comes from YMTC.

Tested on a 5950X/X570 platform, the AS SSD 1GB results are shown above. The HV3000 delivers real-world read/write speeds of around 4300/4100MB/s, while the HV3000 Pro reaches 6300/5800MB/s. Speeds drop somewhat when the drive is full, but the difference is small.

The AS SSD 10GB benchmark widened the gap between the two: the Wudangshan solution remains stable overall, while the Taishan NAND slows down noticeably, with a clear drop in score.

CrystalDiskMark produces scores close to the advertised figures. Of course, these speeds represent the SSD's best-case results and differ somewhat from real-world use.

HD Tune can simulate the write curve. The curves show that both drives handle a continuous 100GB write very well when empty, but when the drive is 80% full, the Taishan solution is more prone to slowing down,

while the Wudangshan drive absorbs the 100GB of files at almost full speed. There is still a gap between the two, but for gamers both are more than sufficient.

The same-drive drag-and-drop test is quite interesting. Limited by the controller's peak performance, the two perform similarly when reading and writing simultaneously. In other words, if your PC has two identical drives, Wudangshan will thoroughly beat Taishan,

but if either drive is used as the only NVMe drive, the difference in user experience is minimal.