Cavalry Storage Pelican 64GB External SSD Review

Real World Data Transfers

No matter how good a synthetic benchmark like IOMeter or PCMark is, it can not really tell you how your hard drive will perform in “real world” situations. All of us here at Hardware Canucks strive to give you the best, most complete picture of a review item’s true capabilities and to this end we will be running timed data transfers to give you a general idea of how its performance relates to real life use. To help replicate worse case scenarios we will transfer a 4.00GB contiguous RAR file and a folder containing 49 subfolders with a total 2108 files varying in length from 20mb to 1kb (1.00 GB total).

Testing will include transfer to and transferring from the devices, timing each process individually to provide an approximate Read and Write performance. To then stress the dive even more we will then make a copy of the large file to another portion of the same drive and then repeat the process with the small one. This will test the drive to its limits as it will be reading and writing simultaneously. Here is what we found.


By this time is there anyone who finds these numbers surprising? I know we weren’t in the least bit shocked by the Pelican's anaemic performance via SATA. On the bright side it seems the slow and relatively archaic USB limitations actually work in the Pelicans' favour as these numbers may not be great but at least it has a good excuse. Let’s move on as the less said about this drive’s “cutting edge technology” the better.