Asus ROG Strix Arion S500 500GB external SSD Review

The PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark has been designed to test drives that are used for storing files rather than applications. You can also use this test with NAS drives, USB sticks, memory cards, and other external storage devices.
The Data Drive Benchmark uses 3 traces, running 3 passes with each trace.

Trace 1. Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, in to the target drive (write test).
Trace 2. Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
Trace 3. Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test)

Here we show the total bandwidth performance for each of the individual traces.

The Asus ROG Strix Arion S500 does very well in PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark topping the write test chart and in second place in the read/write and read tests. It also sits in second place, behind Seagate's FireCuda Gaming SSD (that uses a USB3.2 Gen 2 x2 interface) in the overall bandwidth chart.

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