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Sustained Read Transfer Rate
External Drives |
Interface |
Large Files |
Small Files |
Average |
Difference |
64 GB OCZ Enyo |
USB 3.0 |
80.6 MB/s |
63.5 MB/s |
72.0 MB/s |
+ 18.4% |
2 TB WD My Passport |
USB 3.0 |
61.0 MB/s |
60.7 MB/s |
60.8 MB/s |
Baseline |
1.5 TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex |
USB 3.0 |
59.4 MB/s |
58.7 MB/s |
59.0 MB/s |
- 2.9% |
1 TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex |
USB 3.0 |
57.1 MB/s |
54.5 MB/s |
55.8 MB/s |
- 8.3% |
32 GB Kingston DT Ultimate 3.0 G2 |
USB 3.0 |
61.0 MB/s |
46.8 MB/s |
53.9 MB/s |
- 11.4% |
32 GB Kingston DT Ultimate 3.0 G2 |
USB 2.0 |
29.8 MB/s |
27.2 MB/s |
28.5 MB/s |
- 53.2% |
64 GB OCZ Enyo |
USB 2.0 |
29.4 MB/s |
26.9 MB/s |
28.2 MB/s |
- 53.7% |
2 TB WD My Passport |
USB 2.0 |
28.4 MB/s |
25.9 MB/s |
27.1 MB/s |
- 55.4% |
1 TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex |
USB 2.0 |
28.2 MB/s |
25.6 MB/s |
26.9 MB/s |
- 55.8% |
The 2 TB Western Digital My Passport is definitely a very fast USB 3.0 hard disk drive. It was faster than all the other USB 3.0 external drives with the singular exception of the 64 GB OCZ Enyo. This is possibly due to the use of two internal drives, instead of the usual single drive.
Sustained Write Transfer Rsate
External Drives |
Interface |
Large Files |
Small Files |
Average |
Difference |
64 GB OCZ Enyo |
USB 3.0 |
39.1 MB/s |
23.0 MB/s |
31.1 MB/s |
+ 17.7% |
2 TB WD My Passport |
USB 3.0 |
32.5 MB/s |
20.3 MB/s |
26.4 MB/s |
Baseline |
32 GB Kingston DT Ultimate 3.0 G2 |
USB 3.0 |
39.1 MB/s |
13.0 MB/s |
26.1 MB/s |
- 1.2% |
1.5 TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex |
USB 3.0 |
35.8 MB/s |
12.3 MB/s |
24.0 MB/s |
- 8.9% |
1 TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex |
USB 3.0 |
33.8 MB/s |
12.9 MB/s |
23.4 MB/s |
- 11.4% |
32 GB Kingston DT Ultimate 3.0 G2 |
USB 2.0 |
23.1 MB/s |
11.6 MB/s |
17.3 MB/s |
- 34.2% |
64 GB OCZ Enyo |
USB 2.0 |
19.1 MB/s |
14.2 MB/s |
16.6 MB/s |
- 37.0% |
2 TB WD My Passport |
USB 2.0 |
16.7 MB/s |
12.7 MB/s |
14.7 MB/s |
- 44.2% |
1 TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex |
USB 2.0 |
18.8 MB/s |
9.4 MB/s |
14.1 MB/s |
- 46.5% |
When it came to writes, the2 TB Western Digital My Passport was still the fastest portable hard disk drive in this comparison, falling behind only the flash-based OCZ Enyo drive.
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