Cavalry Storage Pelican 64GB External SSD Review

by AkG     |     June 7, 2009

ATTO Disk Benchmark


The ATTO disk benchmark tests the drives read and write speeds using gradually larger size files. For these tests, the ATTO program was set to run from its smallest to largest value (.5KB to 8192KB) and the total length was set to 256MB. The test program then spits out an extrapolated performance figure in megabytes per second.

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When it comes to SATA, ATTO and read speeds the Pelican is fairly mundane. In any other review this would be damning praise indeed, but here it’s actually a nice change to say the Pelican is mediocre. USB speeds are once again good for that technology and would most likely beat (or at least match) the best USB thumb-drives out there.


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Well that “winning streak” didn’t last long! As we have seen in the past tests…this drive is truly subpar when in comes to SATA write speeds.
 
 
 

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