Cavalry Storage Pelican 64GB External SSD Review

Random Access Time

To obtain the absolute, most accurate Random access time, h2benchw was used for this benchmark. This benchmark tests how quickly different areas of the drive’s memory can be accessed. A low number means that the drive space can be accessed quickly while a high number means that more time is taken trying to access different parts of the drive. To run this program, one must use a DOS prompt and tell it what sections of the test to run. While one could use “h2benchw 1 -english -s -tt "harddisk test" -w test” for example and just run the seek tests, we took the more complete approach and ran the full gamout of tests and then extracted the necessary information from the text file. This is the command line argument we used “h2benchw 1 -a -! -tt "harddisk drivetest" -w drivetest”. This tells the program to write all results in english, save them in drivetest txt file, do write and read tests and do it all on drive 1 (or the second drive found, with 0 being the OS drive).


Well here at least is some good news: the SATA random access times of this drive are not half bad. Clearly not in the same league as the Intel X-25M but certainly not half bad either! The USB numbers once again continue to impress us.

SIS Sandra

This test was run with the removable storage benchmark in Sandra XII Standard. All of the scores are calculated in operations per second and have been averaged out from the scores of 4 test runs.


SIS Sandra is such a wonky program when it comes to SSD and HDDs it’s almost not worth the effort. For anyone who does use this program as measuring stick…the Pelican fares decently on SATA and relatively well on USB.