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Title: PicoDrive USB4 SSD Review: Smallest 4 TB drive for consoles, ProRes video, and OTG storage
Post by: Redaktion on May 21, 2025, 07:13:06
The PicoDrive is barely larger than a USB stick but can hold up to 4 TB of data and runs fast thanks to USB4. In our review, the PicoDrive comes across as a viable portable SSD for those who need high-speed storage on the go, such as 4K ProRes recording, consoles, gaming handhelds, or as general smartphone storage.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/PicoDrive-USB4-SSD-Review-Smallest-4-TB-drive-for-consoles-ProRes-video-and-OTG-storage.1019427.0.html
Title: Re: PicoDrive USB4 SSD Review: Smallest 4 TB drive for consoles, ProRes video, and OTG storage
Post by: Dylan on July 07, 2025, 12:12:04
Out of interest - what computer did you do the sustained copy on? As you were seemingly getting up to 3.5GB/s write on some of the test machines, but the initial copy on the sustained 142GB write only achieved 1.3GB/s.

Dropping to 800MB/s after only 52GB copied (1.3 x 40) is somewhat disappointing, many modern Nvme drives manage almost a 1/4 of their capacity in pSLC cache.