ADATA SE920 1TB Review (Page 4 of 7)

Page 4 - Benchmark: ATTO Disk Benchmark

About ATTO Disk Benchmark

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. Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.

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Up next is our usual ATTO read and write tests. ATTO has been one of our longest lasting benchmarks over time due to its accuracy and thorough testing in accordance to varying transfer sizes. ATTO uses easily compressible data, so compression-heavy controllers will perform very well here.

Over USB4 via Thunderbolt 4, we observed the sizzling speeds with write caching enabled. This included peak speeds of 2740MB/s write and 2890MB/s read. If we take a look at the write caching enabled numbers, you can see these curves were the highest at both ends of the packet transfer sizes. Particularly in the write test, you can see the effect of enabling write caching, as disabling it turned the SE920 1TB into the slowest drive with a peak write of 249.15MB/s. As for the read tests, the SE920 1TB again performed the best. Interestingly, under the curve, the write cache enabled results were also faster, although this could be more about how the benchmark works.

Over USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, the SE920 1TB was still one of the faster drives in our pool of competition. In the write test, it was only second to the WD Black P50 1TB at the larger transfer sizes. Under the curve, the Lexar SL660 BLAZE 1TB was also faster at packet sizes 32KB and under. As for the read test, the ADATA SE920 1TB was close to the SL660 BLAZE and the Crucial X10 Pro 2TB, with similar peak speeds. The SE920 1TB traded blows with these three drives for smaller transfer packet sizes. Even so, I would say the results showed the strong capabilities of the ADATA SE920 1TB.


Page Index
1. Introduction, Packaging, Specifications
2. A Closer Look, Test System
3. Benchmark: AIDA64 Disk Benchmark
4. Benchmark: ATTO Disk Benchmark
5. Benchmark: Crystal Disk Mark 8.0
6. Benchmark: HD Tune Pro 5.70
7. Conclusion