Performance
Performance has been tested on the latest AMD Ryzen platform which contains R9 3900X processor and ASUS Crosshair VIII Impact motherboard with the X570 chipset. All tests were performed in the Windows 10 x64 environment.
Let’s begin with the ATTO Disk Benchmark, which is one of the most popular applications designed to measure storage bandwidth.
In the latest version of ATTO, we usually see lower than expected results. In this case, we are quite surprised to see up to 524MB/s read and 500MB/s write. It’s 20MB/s more than the maximum bandwidth in the drive’s specification.
In the CrystalDiskMark results are even better with up to nearly 50MB/s higher bandwidth than that in the specification. If we take a look at random bandwidth results then they’re also great. Results are about as high as that of SSD connected via SATA III.
PCMark series benchmarks are showing similar results so again high bandwidth and overall performance seen on higher SATA drives. This is what we expect of an OS drive, not really an external USB drive.
Below are also storage benchmarks made in the PCMark 10. Since most operations are random then also our results are lower but of course really high for an external drive.
At the end, Anvil’s Storage Utilities which is a less popular benchmark and usually causes problems with reaching maximum declared bandwidth. The same as in the ATTO, I was expecting to see lower results but the SAVAGE EXO was able to pass 500MB/s with pretty good random bandwidth results.
I’m sure that all gamers who decide on the SAVAGE EXO will be fully satisfied with its performance. It’s one of the fastest external drives we were testing in our redaction.
