Performance
Performance has been measured on a popular nowadays platform which contains Intel Core i7 6700K processor and ASUS Maximus VIII Hero motherboard with the latest BIOS/UEFI. For tests were used all USB 3.0 ports but presented results were made on Intel 3.0 controller which provides best performance.
Results may vary depends from used USB 3.0 controller, drivers or motherboard. We have seen differences up to 50% in previous USB 3.0 flash drives reviews so test platform really matters.
Additionally HyperX Savage 128GB flash drive has been tested on ASUS ROG GL552VW notebook which is providing slightly lower performance than ASUS Maximus VIII Hero motherboard.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
Sequential bandwidth results in ATTO benchmark don’t look so good. We can see maximum bandwidth of 304MB/s what is a great result but way below declared bandwidth of the HyperX Savage 128GB specification. Results are actually close to the 64GB version of this flash drive.
Maybe let’s move to the next benchmark where is much different situation.
CrystalDiskMark 5.0.2 x64
CrystalDiskMark is showing much better results with maximum bandwidth of 431MB/s. This is about 70MB/s higher read and write bandwidth than we could expect looking at the specification. What is interesting, larger files and more complicated data queue give better results in tests.
There are also different results depends from test file size. HyperX Savage is clearly optimized to move large files. On small files, performance won’t matter so much as all operations will finish really fast but on many large files it may take some time.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities
Anvil’s tests are similar to ATTO and CrystalDiskMark but base on a different files so results are slightly different.
On the screenshot above we can see great performance, even better than that declared by Kingston. Once again on larger files performance is better. Since it’s a USB flash drive then we shouldn’t worry about random writes as most operations are sequential anyway and write is buffered.
While moving various files in Windows Explorer, I haven’t seen any issues, regardless if I was working on small or big files. All was working smooth, without any performance drops. It’s good that you can count on constant high performance what not all flash drive can offer.
