The HD Tune Pro random 512 bytes read test favors the ADATA Nobility Series N005 quite heavily in both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 modes. The tables turn again when measuring write performance, as the DataTraveler provides the best results while the Patriot Supersonic completely tanks. Although the Supersonic provided the highest read result with 94MB/s, the N005 actually came second with 82MB/s while the DataTraveler was much slower at 67MB/s. We found the results to be quite different when looking at 512K performance. Whereas Kingston's product managed 65MB/s the ADATA drive fell to just 37.9MB/s. The ADATA Nobility Series N005 and Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 are considerably slower with read speeds between 80 and 90MB/s, but it's the write performance that really shows the weakness of ADATA's drive. The CrystalDiskMark sequential performance shows the Patriot Supersonic USB 3.0 to be the fastest drive by far with a read speed of 118MB/s and a write speed of 84MB/s. Of course, my Intel Optane 905p spanks the Samsung drives in the 4KiB range - but the below drive is for storing GB files only.Benchmarks: CrystalDiskMark 3.0 & HD Tune Pro Write speeds are slightly down with the Raid 1, but I am happy enough overall. I then changed it to Raid 1, and got the result below. In fact, it seemed to be practically no faster than a single drive. Very disappointed as it should have been closer to 7000 MB/s. Interestingly, I tried Raid 0 first, and it only did 3603 MB/s read. So instead, I setup raid using the Windows Storage Spaces. I tried the VROC, but even with the Standard key, it would not let me create a Raid using the VROC - it seems that you really need Intel drives for this unless you have very specific drives and motherboard. I got two Samsung 970 Pros, but rather than plugging them into the M.2 slots on the motherboard (i7-9800X, Asus X299 Tuf Mark 2), I plugged them into the pci-e slots using riser cards. Getting good performance seems to be a challenge as the DMI is a bottleneck, and a lot of configurations do not work. Don't seem to be any fast results, so thought I would post mine as an fyi.

Crystal disk mark 0.00 results