Legit Storage Reviews

OCZ Technology Enyo 128GB Portable USB 3.0 SSD Review

Manufacturer: OCZ Technology
Product: OCZSSDU3-1ENY128G
Date: Tue, Sep 07, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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HDTach v3.0.4 & CrystalDiskMark v3.0g

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device as possible.

USB 2.0 Header:

HD Tach Benchmark Results

USB 3.0 Header:

HD Tach Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The OCZ Enyo 128GB USB Storage Drive averaged 35MB/s on a USB 2.0 header and ~194MB/s on USB 3.0! The burst speed on the USB 3.0 header was 178.7MB/s and 38.9MB/s with the USB 2.0 header. The random access time of 0.4ms on USB 2.0 was sweet, but the USB 3.0 header had a much improved random access time of just 0.1ms!


CrystalDiskMark is a small HDD benchmark utility for your hard drive that enables you to rapidly measure sequential and random read/write speeds.

100MB Files Test on USB 2.0 Header:

CrystalDiskMark v3.0 Benchmark

100MB Files Test on USB 3.0 Header:

CrystalDiskMark v3.0 Benchmark

Benchmark Results: Another popular testing application that is free is CrystalDiskMark v3.0g. We ran CDM with a file size of 100MB on both the USB 2.0 & 3.0 headers to see how performance was on the OCZ Enyo 128GB drive. As you can see the sequential read performance went from ~44MB/s to ~265MB/s and the sequential write performance also improved from ~39MB/s to 180MB/s. As you can you see the OCZ Enyo is quick on a USB 2.0 drive, but if you use it on a system with a USB 3.0 you can have huge performance improvements!

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Review Index
Page 1 - OCZ Enyo - An SSD and USB 3.0 Storage Drive
Page 2 - Inside the OCZ Enyo 128GB SSD
Page 3 - The Test System
Page 4 - HDTach v3.0.4 & CrystalDiskMark v3.0g
Page 5 - HDTune v4.60
Page 6 - ATTO 2.46 & Sandra 2010
Page 7 - Free Capacity and Final Thoughts