Crucial X8 2TB Review (Page 3 of 8)

Page 3 - Benchmark: AIDA64 Disk Benchmark

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As with all our portable disk reviews, I would just like to make it clear from the start that we are, by no means, expecting the compared USB flash drives on the list to deliver performance competitive with the Crucial X8 2TB external solid state drive. However, our AIDA64 results do provide interesting insight to the performance of the Crucial X8 2TB as a USB 3.1 Gen 2 storage device. Delivering up to 914.4MB/s sequential read, 903.7MB/s random read, and 895.1MB/s buffered read, it came in marginally behind the Crucial X8 1TB -- and a close one at that, which should be a no surprise to anybody at all. The third on the list, the LaCie Rugged SSD 1TB, also an external NVMe-based SSD, was also very close. Its 0.1 ms random access time is what you would expect from a USB solid state drive as well. So far, for 2TB of USB 3.1 Gen 2 storage, this is some serious speed.


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 7.0
6. Benchmark: HD Tach 3.0.1.0
7. Benchmark: HD Tune Pro 5.70
8. Conclusion