ASUS TUF Gaming A1 External Drive Enclosure

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.

Using a Gen 4 SSD in the TUF Gaming A1 produced, as you might expect, pretty good results in the PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark with an overall bandwidth figure for the test run of 276.31MB/s. Best of the individual test traces was the cps2 Read-Write test with a bandwidth of 320MB/s.

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