For the long term performance stability test, we set the drive up to run a 20-minute 4K random test with a 30% write, 70% read split, at a Queue Depth of 256 over the entire disk. The 3.84TB DC500R averaged 71,812 IOPS for the test with a performance stability of 93%, a figure you should expect from a drive aimed firmly at use in data centres.
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