Seagate Ultra Touch HDD 4TB Review

To get a measure of how much faster PCIe NVMe drives are than standard SATA SSD's we use the same files but transfer to and from a 2TB Kioxia Exceria Plus drive.

Transfer Details:

• 100GB data file.
• 60GB iso image.
• 60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
• 50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
• 12GB Movie folder – (15 files – 8 @ .MKV, 4 @ .MOV, 3 @ MP4).
• 10GB Photo folder – (304 files – 171 @ .RAW, 105 @ JPG, 21 @ .CR2, 5 @ .DNG).
• 10GB Audio folder – (1,483 files – 1479 @ MP3, 4 @ .FLAC files).
• 5GB (1.5bn pixel) photo.
• BluRay Movie – 42GB.
• 21GB 8K Movie demos – (11 demos)
• 16GB 4K Raw Movie Clips – (9 MP4V files).
• 4.25GB 3D Printer File Folder – (166 files – 105 @ .STL, 38 @ .FBX, 11 @ .blend, 5 @ .lwo, 4 @ .OBJ, 3@ .3ds).
• 1.5GB AutoCAD File Folder (80 files – 60 @ .DWG and 20 @.DXF).

On the whole, the drive performed reasonably well when it came to dealing with our real-life file transfers although it struggled writing the small bity files of the 50GB file. It averaged 111MB/s for the 12 transfers when in write mode, the fastest being the 141MB/s for the 5GB image, the slowest was the 50GB File Folder at 32MB/s. When reading the data back the Ultra Touch averaged 129MB/s. The fastest read speed, 147MB/s was achieved by two transfers, the 5GB image and the Win 11 iso image. Once again the slowest was the 50GB file folder at 77MB/s.

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