Angelbird SSD2go & Angelbird SSD2go TWIN 480GB External SSD Review – Pushing USB 3.0 To The Limit

TESTING AND BENCHMARKS

The system configuration for testing the Angelbird SSD2go and SSD2go TWIN will be Intel-based:

The benchmark suites used for testing will most likely already be on your system, as essentially all of this software is available online. As such, it allows direct correlation between reader and reviewer due to the ease of accessibility, and hence results can simply be compared between different test systems and configurations.

Real-world benchmarks included a batch of ~90,000 files and folders with capacities of 250MB, 500MB, 1000MB, and 120GB respectively to test file transfer performance. Windows 7 boot times were also monitored and timed starting from the OS load screen to Steam’s login window (the last program to load).

In terms of usable space, the Angelbird SSD2go 480GB shows up with 447GB usable, whereas the Angelbird SSD2go TWIN 480GB shows 223GB usable for one SSD; hence 446-447GB usable for both in total.

CRYSTALDISKINFO X64 VER. 5.5.0

CrystalDiskInfo allows monitoring the health of all the physical hard disks, may they be internal, or external. Using their own built-in SMART tools plus any temperature-monitoring tools that may be present in the computer or hard drive, CDI gives accurate health readings of your drives and gives warnings in case of imminent drive malfunction.

Angelbird SSD2go 480GB:

Angelbird SSD2go TWIN 480GB (240GB x 2):