Mach Xtreme MX-LX 128GB USB3.0 Flash 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.

Performance Comparison

Within Anvil’s we can see in a little more detail how shifting towards the more affordable MLC NAND affects the write performance of the drive. Whilst the drive is able to pump out well over 1k IOPS on the read front, the multi level cell design really takes a hit on the performance, with IOPs that are barely in to double figures. The 4K performance is also not that great, so using this drive as a boot drive may not be such a great idea.