Performance
Performance has been tested on the latest Intel Rocket Lake platform, which contains the i7 13700K processor and MSI Z790I Edge WiFi motherboard. All tests were performed in the Windows 11 x64 environment with the latest updates.
Let’s begin with the ATTO Disk Benchmark, which is one of the most popular applications designed to measure storage bandwidth.
ATTO Disk Benchmark is shows us up to 218MB/s read and 180MB/s write bandwidth. It’s quite high for USB HDD, but a smaller queue and typical bandwidth are closer to 125MB/s read and 114MB/s write, and I would count that these are numbers we will see for most of the time.
In CrystalDiskMark, results are around what I mentioned, so up to 132MB/s read and 124MB/s write. As with all HDDs, random operations are slow, which was expected.
PCMark 10 storage benchmarks show much better results than in our previous Silicon Power portable HDD reviews. Mixed load and daily applications give us results about twice as high as we expected.
3DMark Storage Benchmark doesn’t show us any exceptional results, but what we get is still not bad for an HDD.
As usual, Anvil’s Storage Utilities is showing us a bit lower bandwidth than the ATTO or CrystalDiskMark. These results are still high enough for a USB HDD.
The performance can’t be compared to any SSD, but it’s still enough if we want to take more data with us, and the capacity matters more than the data transfer speed.
