Patriot Xporter Rage XT 32GB
Oct 18th, 2010 | By JaredIn order to test the Rage XT 32GB, I will be subjecting it to a few benchmarks: IOMeter, ATTO Diskbenchmark and Crystal Disk Mark. I won’t cover any installation details because it is plug and play – no drivers or software required. I will compare performance on my Windows 7 machine against another Patriot drive, the 64GB Patriot Xporter Magnum.
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- CPU: AMD Phenom II 720BE X3 @ 3.2GHz (unlocked to 4 cores)
- MB: Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4
- GPU: Sparkle GeForce GTX465 1GB
- RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws PC3-12800 (F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL) @ 1333MHz 9-9-9-24
- PSU: Ultra X3 1000W
- CPU Cooling: Noctua NH-C12P SE14
- PWM/NB/SB Cooling: Stock/Stock/Stock
- HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 640GB 7200RPM 32MB Cache (ST3640323AS)
- OS: Windows 7 Professional
- USB Flash Drives
- 32GB Patriot Rage XT
- 64GB Patriot Xporter Magnum
IOMeter
IOMeter is an I/O subsystem measurement and characteristic tool for single and clustered systems initially designed by Intel.
IOMeter is both a workload generator (that is, it performs I/O operations in order to stress the system) and a measurement tool (that is, it examines and records the performance of its I/O operations and their impact on the system). It can be configured to emulate the disk or network I/O load of any program or benchmark, or can be used to generate entirely synthetic I/O loads. It can generate and measure loads on single or multiple (networked) systems.
I configured IOMeter to create a 1GB file on the target device and it will pull the performance over 5 minutes and report back the average transfer rate for various block size transfers: 4KB, 16KB and 32KB.
ATTO Diskbenchmark
ATTO Diskbenchmark is an old but popular benchmarking tool. It captures the read and write performance at different transfer sizes for a fixed file size.
Crystal Disk Mark
Crystal Disk Mark tests the read and write speed for a user selected file size at three different transfer rates: sequential, 512K and 4K. I selected a 1000MB test file.
It’s quite clear from the various benchmarks that the Rage XT 32GB certainly lives up to Patriot’s write speed claims as it averages right at the claimed 25MB/s. With a read speed of around 28MB/s the Rage XT is no slouch in either department.