Corsair EX300U 2TB External SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Corsair EX300U3. ATTO/CrystalDiskMark/AS SSD4. Throughput5. PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark6. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 7. Temperatures8. Real Life File Transfers9. Closing Thoughts10. View All Pages

The PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark has been designed to test drives that are used for storing files rather than applications. You can also use this test with NAS drives, USB sticks, memory cards, and other external storage devices.
The Data Drive Benchmark uses 3 traces, running 3 passes with each trace.

Trace 1.
Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, into the target drive (write test).
Trace 2.
Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
Trace 3.
Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test)

Here we show the total bandwidth performance for each of the individual traces.

The Corsair EX300U doesn't seem to handle PCMark10's Data Drive Benchmark that well, ending up in the bottom half of the results charts for all three tests.

Become a Patron!