MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX Review (w/ 4770k / HD7990 / 2,933mhz DDR3)

We measure the system USB 3.0 performance by using the excellent Patriot SuperSonic Magnum 256GB USB 3.0 drive, which we reviewed back in February this year.

Performance via the USB 3.0 ports is excellent, scoring almost 260 MB/s and 177MB/s in sequential read and write tests.

Due to the nature of this kind of flash, and via the USB 3.0 interface, 4k and 4k QD32 performance is substantially worse than from a native SSD drive across a SATA connector.

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The ATTO Disk Benchmark shows similar results in the read test, peaking at 260 MB/s. The write performance results are much lower however, dropping to around 65 MB/s.

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