PNY Elite 960GB External SSD Review

Out of the box, the drive is factory formatted as exFAT but to test the drive we re-formatted the drive as NTFS.

CrystalDiskmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V7.

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.

PNY rate the Sequential performance of the 960GB drive as up to 420MB/s for both reads and writes. When tested with ATTO benchmark, our review sample produced a read score of 303MB/s, way off the official maximum. However, the ATTO write score of 441MB/s was 21MB/s faster than the official figure. Testing the drive with the AS SSD benchmark produced a read figure of 418MB/s, confirming the official figure, but the write figure of 358MB/s was well shy of the official rating of the drive.

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