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Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0 x64.
Our speeds peak around 190 MB/s read and 170 MB/s write which is a fantastic set of results.
Next we want to try the HyperX Max 3.0 128GB connected to a USB 2.0 port.
When moving from USB 2.0 to USB 3.0 we can see a huge 454.7% increase with sequential reads and a 415.2% increase with 512k reading. 4k and 3k QD32 performance increases aren't quite as dramatic, but values between 160% and 172% are recorded.
Write performance is just as significant an improvement, even more so when we get to the 4k and 3k QD32 tests recording 411% and 330% increases respectively.
Holy Snit batman, thats a performance USB drive and a half ! I need to gets me a USB 3 controller 🙁
Damn, thats another great product from Kingston. Excellent drive, toshiba controller is proven too, good choice.
This is a great idea, only problem is, people in work etc, will more than likely be stuck on USB 2 machines for eons. so unless you are just using it for single machine or offline backups, its expensive !
Well this is rather sexy innit? the usb 3 drives ive seen reviewed so far were lucky to hit 100MB so this is vastly superior. nice work Kingston.
USB 2.0 really does need replacing. ive an old 500gb USB 2.0 drive and its facking painful to back up files. I normally do it overnight when im kipping. Look forward to one of these, but it will be a while as I just bought a motherboard a few months ago.
Spend £15 on a USB 3.0 controller, best way to get usb 3 without forking out 150 quid again for a motherboard.
Awesome, im buying a 64gb for my documents. any rough time for retail? mid dec? start? dec 2011? lol
I think this is the first time ive really seen usb 3.0 external drives really shine with the performance. excellent performance results.
massive gains over USB 2.0 very nice for an external drive