In our read throughput test, the drive peaked at the end of the test at 2,769.27MB/s, well short of the official maximum of 4,000MB/s but as you can see from the comparison graph. When it comes to read performance, the EX400U is the fastest USB-interfaced drive we've tested to date by quite a margin.
As with the read throughput test, the drive's performance in the write throughput test saw it peak at the end of the test run at 2,786.49MB/s once again short of the maximum official figure of 3,600MB/s. As with the read test, the 2,786MB result may be short of the official figure, but it's the fastest we've seen to date for a USB drive.