Performance
All tests were performed on Intel i7 4770K processor and Gigabyte Z87X-OC motherboard. USB 3.0 controller is integrated into Intel Z87 chipset so results should be easily comparable on other motherboards.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
ATTO benchmark is offering us sequential bandwidth tests. In this benchmark we can see maximum read transfers reaching nearly 152 MB/s. That’s more than declared by Patriot 140 MB/s. Write bandwidth is more like average for flash drives and is approximately 20 MB/s. It’s still not bad for a device this size but for sure not as impressive as read results.
Crystal Disk Mark 3.03
Crystal Disk Mark is also adding couple of random bandwidth tests. Random bandwidth is more important for hard drives and less for flash drives that are used to move data from one to the other place.
W are already used to slow random bandwidth that flash drives are offering but Patriot Spark is showing that at least read transfers can be at reasonable level. We can see about 10 MB/s in 4K tests. It’s really good result considering that top flash drive series and much bigger size can’t make much more.
The same as for sequential bandwidth, writes are also really low in random transfers but that’s common for flash drives.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is testing drives in series of random and sequential transfer tests showing also IOPS ( Input Output Operations per Second ).
Patriot Spark, the same as in previous tests is showing really good read performance. Results are similar to what we could see in ATTO and Crystal Disk Mark.
General performance is simply amazing for a flash drive so small. Of course write bandwidth could be higher but in everyday work it’s not so important as most operations base on read transfers.
