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such as CDM 6 or AS SSD. The 48GB transfer
results below bear that out.
Although it placed third among the latest
NVMe ultra portables we’ve tested, the
CrystalMark 6
MBps
CrystalDiskMark 6 rated the SE800 quite fast as a
reader, but only a mediocre writer. Performance
levels out with larger amounts of data.
Sequential Write
(Q=32, T=1)^674779
LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE
1,033
925
Sequential Read
(Q=32, T=1) 410 1,039
1,0 4 4
1,034
Adata SE800 PNY Pro Elite
Samsung T7 SanDisk Extreme Portable Pro SSD
pcworld.com/pelt) with its aberrational
synthetic benchmark results is fine in the real
world.
CrystalDiskMark 6 gave the SE800 a
mediocre rating for sustained writing,
considerably slower than the Samsung T7’s.
However, the SE800 actually bested that
competitor in our 48GB write tests.
Note that while the CrystalDiskMark 6
results above may be true for relatively small
transfers of 1GB, as data sets get larger, the
difference in performance between the drives
drops significantly. None of the ultra-
portables, nor SSDs in general, live up to the
numbers generated by synthetic benchmarks
The Adata isn’t a great writer, but it isn’t a bad
one, and it is a very fast reader.
Tot al t ime
48GB copies
(Seconds)
642
658
SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE
574
683
48GB folder
write 205
250
195
272
48GB folder
read 230
212
225
203
48GB folder
48GB read
104
72
136
103
82
72
123
73
Adata SE800 PNY Pro Elite
Samsung T7 SanDisk Extreme Portable Pro SSD