Test Rig, Procedures, and Results
I will be using the following hardware in this review:
| Processor | Intel Core i7 3770K |
| Motherboard | Asrock Z77 OC Formula |
| Ram | Patriot Viper 2x4gb 1866mhz |
| Graphics Card | Asus GTX580 Matrix |
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Hard Drives |
Patriot Pyro 120gb SSD |
| Optical Drive | None |
| CPU Cooler | Custom Water Loop |
| Power Supply | EVGA 1500w |
| Chassis | Navig Benching Station |
| Network | Asus PCIE-N13 |
| Monitor | Dell 2407wfp |
| OS | Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit |
I will be running four different storage benchmarks on this flash drive: ATTO Disk Benchmark, HDTune’s benchmark, Crystalmark’s HDD benchmark, and Checkflash.
Benchmark Results
The results for the Flash drive plugged into one of the native (connected directly to the processor, not an external chip) USB 3.0 ports on the motherboard.This is to ensure maximum transfer speeds that are not limited by external USB controllers.
ATTO Disk test
The Supersonic Rage XT seems to fall flat on its face in ATTO.It peaks at 131MB/s reads and 52MB/s writes. White the writes are faster than spec, the reads sure need some help. Hopefully this won’t translate into the other benches.
HD Tune Pro
Much better, we have reads in the 160MB/s range. Not exactly the rated 180MB/s, but this is still blazing fast.
CrystalDiskMark
Holy batman. Speeds in Crystalmark are actually FASTER than the rated speeds by quite a bit. I’d say this makes up for the drive falling a bit behind in HDbench.
Checkflash
Checkflash is one of those benches that just completely hammers on a piece of hardware until it has to beg for mercy. The Supersonic Rage XT actually got quite warm with this bench and it runs quite a bit under the rated speeds on both reads and writes.
Benchmark Impressions
I have to say the performance was really a mixed hat. There were instances where performance was faster than the rated speeds and also times where the drive fell flat on its face and struggled to come anywhere close to the rated speeds. Is it a flash drive? You bet it is. With a 64GB capacity you sure will notice those read and write speeds when trying to access files. This drive was also more than fast enough to stream a 1080p Blue-ray rip off of it onto an HTPC.
