Asus ROG Strix Arion S500 500GB external SSD Review

We tested the drive as it comes out of the box, factory formatted as NTFS.

Crystalmark 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.

Asus rate the performance of the ROG Strix Arion S500 as up to 1,050MB/s. We could confirm this figure with all three benchmarks we used (ATTO, AS SSD and CrystalDiskMark7). The fastest read figure we saw of 1,063MB/s was when the drive was being tested with CrystalDiskMark default and Peak Performance profile tests.

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