SanDisk Extreme PRO 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

In a similar fashion to CrystalDiskMark, the write performance of the Extreme PRO set it miles apart from anything else that I’ve seen to date, once again the 4K performance is tens, if not hundreds of times faster and with IOPs levels of nearly 3K on both the read and write side of things, this drive appears to be in a league of its own.