MSI GS60 6QE (Ghost Pro 4K) Skylake Laptop Review

To test USB 3.0 performance we need a drive that is capable of completely saturating the bus. Until recently we used the Corsair Voyager GTX drive, one of the fastest pen drives on the market. We have recently switched to using a 500GB Brinell Drive, available on Amazon for around £250 inc vat. Inside is a 500GB SAMSUNG EVO 840 SSD, a product all our readers are familiar with.

We have not reviewed this product, but it is one of the fastest external SSD products you can buy, and is self powered from the USB 3.0 port.

Performance from the external SSD over USB 3.0 is first class. Both read and write speeds are in excess of 400 MB/s.

The drive delivers some incredible results in the ATTO benchmark test – peaking at close to 470MB/s in both read and write tests. This is as good as we have seen from the drive and close to the theoretical limits of the USB 3.0 BUS.

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