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In our throughput test, both reads and writes peaked at the end of the test run, at the 16MB block mark, with reads at 981.51MB/s and writes at 999.21MB/s.
The Asus ROG Strix Arion S500 peaked in the read throughput test at 981.51MB/s (16MB block), a little way of the official maximum of 1,050MB/s. However, that figure may be just short of the official maximum but makes the drive the fastest USB 3.2 Gen2x1 drive we’ve tested to date.
As with the read throughput test, the drive peaked at the end of the write test run with a figure of 999.21MB/s, still under the maximum official figure but closer to it than the read result. However, as with the read result that 999.21MB/s figure is the fastest we've seen to date for a USB 3.2 Gen2x1 drive.
