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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