Patriot EVLVR Portable Thunderbolt 3 SSD Review: Sleek, Snappy, Solid

Our Test Methodologies: Under each test condition, the Solid State Drives tested here were installed as secondary volumes in our testbed, with a separate drive used for the OS and benchmark installations. Out testbed's motherboard for the internal drives was updated with the latest BIOS available at the time of publication and AHCI (or RAID) mode was enabled.

SiSoft SANDRA Synthetic HDD Benchmarking

First up, we have some numbers with SiSoft SANDRA, the the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. Here, we used the Physical Disk test suite and provide the results from our comparison SSDs. The benchmarks were run on unformatted drives and read and write performance metrics are detailed below.
The Patriot EVLVR does a commendable job beating out all of the SATA based drives, as you would expect. It pulls some solid numbers, with over 1500MB/s reads and 687MB/s writes. The Samsung X5, which is another Thunderbolt 3 powered drive we reviewed recently, easily outpaces the EVLVR, thanks to its PCIe x4 SSD which offers double the theoretical bandwidth. It is worth noting that the Samsung unit has a price of $699.99 which is 39% higher, though.

ATTO Disk Benchmark More Information Here: http://bit.ly/btuV6w

ATTO is another "quick and dirty" type of disk benchmark that measures transfer speeds across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and graphs them out in an easily interpreted chart. We chose 4kb through 8192kb transfer sizes and a queue depth of 6 over a total max volume length of 256MB. ATTO's workloads are sequential in nature and measure bandwidth, rather than I/O response time, access latency, etc.