G-Technology G-Drive Mobile Pro SSD 500GB External Drive Review

1. Introduction2. G-Technology G-Drive mobile Pro SSD 500GB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO6. ASSSD7. Backup / Restore8. Throughput9. Real Life File Transfers10. Closing Thoughts11. View All Pages

To test real life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.

100GB data file.
60GB iso image.
60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
12GB Movie folder – 24 files (mix of Blu-ray and 4K files).
10GB Photo folder – 621 files (mix of .png, raw and .jpeg images).
10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files (mix of mp3 and .flac files).
5GB (1.5bn pixel) photo.
BluRay movie.

The drive had no problems dealing with our real-life file transfer tests with the best performance coming when it was dealing with large file sizes.

To get a truer idea of how fast the G-Drive mobile Pro SSD is we took the SATA SSD out of the loop and instead tested the drive by running our file transfer tests to and from the drive using a 512GB Toshiba OCZ RD400 NVMe SSD.

With an NVMe drive in place, the file transfer rate rockets upwards breaking the 1GB/s mark when dealing with the larger file sizes. However the drive does struggle with the smaller file sizes contained in the 50GB File, 60GB Steam and 10GB Audio folders.

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