Western Digital (WD) Gold 12TB Hard Drive Review

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0.3.

When dealing with random small bity files at a deep queue depth, the WD Gold 12TB is very much a mixed bag. Its read performance makes it the fastest HDD drive we've seen to date but its write performance by comparison is disappointing.

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