ASUS TUF Gaming A1 External Drive Enclosure

We tested the drive using a 2TB Kingston KC3000 PCIe Gen4 SSD. The KC3000 uses a combination of a Phison's PS5018-E18 8-channel controller and Micron 176-layer B47R 3D TLC NAND.

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSDs. We are using V7.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems' performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously.
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AS SSD is a great free tool designed just for benching Solid State Drives. It performs an array of sequential read and write tests, as well as random read and write tests with sequential access times over a portion of the drive. AS SSD includes a sub suite of benchmarks with various file pattern algorithms but this is difficult in trying to judge accurate performance figures.

Using a 2TB Kingston KC3000 PCIe Gen4 SSD (7,000MB/s read/write) in the TUF Gaming A1 the fastest read speed we saw came in the Peak Performance (0 fill) Profile test in CrystalDiskMark 8 at 1,014MB/s. The same test produced the fastest write speed of 974MB/s.

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