Lexar Workflow DD512 USB 3.0 Solid State Drive Review

Anvil’s Storage Utilities

Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a new benchmarking utility that we have started using here at eTeknix, it’s completely free to download and has the ability to test mainly hard drives and solid state drives, but also any other form of storage medium that you can throw at it.

As well as testing the drive in a variety of benchmarking tests, it also has a drive endurance test that consistently reads and writes data to the selected medium to give days, months and potentially even years of use in a shorter period of time to see how the drive copes in the longer term.

Unconditioned

Conditioned

Drive Performance

The Anvil score takes a lot of tests into consideration and we see a considerable drop in the write performance at times after the conditioning. The reading speeds however aren’t affected and the score actually improves on the conditioned drive compared to the fresh-out-of-the-box.

Drive Comparison

For the purpose of drive comparison, I will be using the performance figures from both unconditioned and conditioned tests with 0% data-fill.

In Anvil’s Storage Utilities we see a similar image as in AIDA, a drive that performs well without breaking out from the crowd. The Lexar Workflow DD512 USB SSD places itself in the top end of our charts.