Patriot PXD 1TB Portable USB 3.2 External SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2021-01-17

In terms of drive performance, the PXD 1TB trades punches with the Crucial X8 but the speed is a bit lower during mixed workloads. The sequential read/write speeds are near the rated numbers, while the drive chassis is implemented optimally, using the aluminum area as a heatsink; we were quite surprised to see that the PXD 1TB drive only gets warm during longer usage times, which is great!

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Test Setup and Extra Info

Test Bench:

 

CPU: Intel I5 9700K Retail

CPU Cooler: Deepcool Captain 240 EX RGB AIO

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

RAM: Patriot Memory Viper RGB Series DDR4

Video: KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6GB

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: OCZ Vector 150

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

 

 

The drive has arrived pre-formatted with NTFS; here is the total space for storage on the drive:

 

 

With the help of AIDA64, we could extract more information regarding the drive; in this particular situation, not a lot of extra details we did find out besides the SN and unformatted capacity:

 

 

 

 

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