Patriot Evlvr Review: Evolving Your Workflow

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Patriot’s Evlvr is significantly cheaper than competing devices, but with lower cost comes lower performance.

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[Brian_R170]

Would be nice to see a review of external Thunderbolt3/PCIe-M.2 enclosures to see how they compare in performance and price to the turn-key solutions.

 

[WyomingKnott]

Now we know how well it works on a Mac or Macbook Pro. Can you benchmark it for USB 3 gen whatever, or is this for now very special-purpose hardware?

 

[seanwebster]

Now we know how well it works on a Mac or Macbook Pro. Can you benchmark it for USB 3 gen whatever, or is this for now very special-purpose hardware?

Test's were on an Intel-based Windows system with an ASRock Thunderbolt 3 AIC. It isn’t compatible with USB Type C ports. Instead, it will only work with true TB3 ports.

As per the review:
"You'll need to use the supplied cable and a true Thunderbolt 3 port. We tried using a USB Type C cable we had in the lab, but it didn’t work with the Evlvr. We also tried using the drive in a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type C port, but we were greeted with a “Thunderbolt device functionality might be limited” popup notification and the Evlvr didn’t show up in Windows Explorer or disk management."