In our throughput test, reads peak at the 8MB block size at 262MB/s before falling back to end the test at 244MB/s. Writes peak at 272MB/s as the drive passes through the 256KB block size, before dropping back to finish the test at 231MB/s. Both of these peak figures confirm the official Seagate transfer rate for the drive of 261MB/s.
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