Seagate Ultra Touch HDD 4TB Review

To run some of our benchmarks we re-formatted the drive as NTFS.

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure the theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSDs. We are using V7.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously.Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturer's RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.

AS SSD is a great free tool designed just for benching Solid State Drives. It performs an array of sequential read-and-write tests, as well as random read-and-write tests with sequential access times over a portion of the drive. AS SSD includes a sub suite of benchmarks with various file pattern algorithms but this is difficult in trying to judge accurate performance figures.

Using the CrystalMarkInfo utility the drive inside the 4TB Ultra Touch HDD is recognised as a 5,400rpm Seagate Barracuda drive which has a data transfer performance rated as up to 140MB/s. The tested Sequential read/write scores are in the range of what you might expect from a drive with this spindle speed over a USB3.0 interface.

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