With Elgato's consent, we tried a third-gen SATA SSD to see how the unit behaved. As predicted, when we slotted in the drive -- a SSD -- connection to the host PC became erratic as the drive would randomly disconnect. This was presumed to be whenever it became temporarily starved of sufficient power during peak transient current demands.

When this SSD was working though, we noted it was performing some way below its capabilities. Fastest sequential read speeds were up to 382MBps, while fastest writes were at 347MBps

An Intel 520 SSD was also tried, with somewhat similar results: 382MBps reads and 343MBps writes.

The Patriot Wildfire 240GB was previously tested under Windows on a direct SATA 6Gbps link, where we saw it able to reach speeds of around 500MBps (read) and 470MBps (write); the Intel could reach 488 and 480MBps in the same CrystalDiskMark test.