Corsair EX100U 2TB External SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Corsair EX100U 2TB3. ATTO/CrystalDiskMark/AS SSD4. Throughput5. PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark6. Real Life File Transfers7. Closing Thoughts8. View All Pages

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.

Corsair's EX100U seemed to have real problems dealing with the PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark, it was slowest in the cps2 test trace and second slowest in the cps1 and cps3 traces and again slowest when it came to overall bandwidth.

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