With portable drives, performance may not be at the forefront of your requirements. Usually people look to design and warranty as important factors rather than execution. Nevertheless we will still run a short range of tests on the Toshiba STORE by means of Lavalys EVEREST Ultimate. Inside EVEREST there are various benchmarking tools, the tool we will use is the Disk Benchmark facility. This allows us to analyse linear read times, random read times and so forth.

System Setup
Processor AMD X6 1055T 2.8GHz
MotherboardASUS M4A89TD PRO AM3
Memory 4GB Mushkin 10666 9-9-9-24 DDR3
Graphics Card MSI 8800GTX 869MB
Hard Disk x2 Samsung SATA-II 300GB





Compared to our SATA HDD the STORE delivers some good USB performance. Most notably the read and linear tests weren't poles apart and there is some good average read access to be had from the STORE drive. For a USB drive, the STORE delivers some decent performance.