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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch Review

We test the USB 3.0 performance on the PC Specialist Vanquish Enforcer system with one of our fastest portable flash drives – the Patriot SuperSonic Magnum 256GB. We reviewed this back in February, check it out over here.
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No performance issues from the single USB 3.0 port on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch, scoring just over 300 MB/s in the read test and around 160 MB/s in the write test. Due to the nature of this kind of flash, and via the USB 3.0 interface, 4k and 4k QD32 performance is substantially worse than from a native SSD drive across a SATA connector.

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The drive scores around 270 MB/s read and 60 MB/s write in the ATTO disk test, a little down on those achieved with CrystalDiskMark, but still strong.

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2 comments

  1. Great laptops, bit expensive for me, but for a business user they rock. weird they haven’t released a new haswell range yet, maybe later in the year?

  2. My boss has one of the older models, its been through the wars and still holding strong. well built.