Minix NEO Storage Pro 480GB Review

Although the NEO Storage Pro has been designed to work with MacBooks, we tested it on one of our standard PC test rigs to get an idea of how the internal drive stacks up against the standard external drives we've been testing.

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V7 including the Peak Performance and Real World Profiles.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously. Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.

AS SSD is a great free tool designed just for benching Solid State Drives. It performs an array of sequential read and write tests, as well as random read and write tests with sequential access times over a portion of the drive. AS SSD includes a sub suite of benchmarks with various file pattern algorithms but this is difficult in trying to judge accurate performance figures.

The official read/write speeds for the drive inside the NEO Storage Pro are up to 400MB/s for both. Both speeds were confirmed by the ATTO, ASSSD and CrystalDiskMark 7 Sequential tests. The fastest read speed we saw was 454MB/s during some of the CrystalDiskMark runs. The fastest write score, 421MB/s also came during the CrystalDiskMark testing.

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