The Enyo was just over 2x faster than a traditional hard drive using the SATA interface and a whopping 6.5x faster than a traditional USB 2.0 storage device. During sequential write tests the Enyo, believe it or not, was just as impressive against its competition. With a transfer rate of 177MB/s, this portable storage device left every other contender in the dust, with a 1.5x performance advantage over a traditional hard drive and being as much as 5x faster than a USB 2.0 storage device. The random 512K CrystalDiskMark test also puts the OCZ Enyo in a pretty good place, especially when using the supplied MCCI driver. The Enyo sustained 206MB/s when measuring read performance and 160MB/s when measuring write speed. This made OCZ’s portable drive faster than the Intel X25-M and OCZ Vertex 2 SSDs in both tests. The OCZ Enyo was also 3.5x faster than a conventional hard drive during writes and almost 5x faster than a typical USB 2.0 storage device. If that wasn’t impressive enough, when looking at the read performance we found that the Enyo was almost 4x faster than a conventional hard drive and a staggering 9x faster than a typical USB 2.0 storage device. Unlike the VIA VL700 USB 3.0 to SATA controller, we don’t believe that the Symwave SW6315 supports NCQ (Native Command Queuing) technology. As a result the CrystalDiskMark random 4K queue depth 32 test results are rather unimpressive. The OCZ Enyo is limited to just 10MB/s in this test, while it was capable of 8MB/s when using the USB 2.0 bus. Although these results might look impressive when compared to a traditional hard drive, they are far from it next to today’s high-speed internal SSD devices designed to use the SATA interface.
