Seagate IronWolf 110 240GB SSD Review

To test real life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.

We use the following folder/file types:

• 100GB data file.
• 60GB iso image.
• 60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
• 50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
• 12GB Movie folder – 24 files (mix of Blu-ray and 4K files).
• 10GB Photo folder – 621 files (mix of .png, raw and .jpeg images).
• 10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files (mix of mp3 and .flac files).
• 5GB (1.5bn pixel) photo.
• 11GB 4K Raw Movie Clips (8 MP4V files).
• 21GB 8K Movie demos.
• 4.25GB 3D Printer File Folder (mostly .STL).
• 1GB AutoCAD File Folder (.dwg and .dxf).

The only time the transfer rate dropped beneath the 100MB/s level in our real life file transfer tests was when the drive transferred the small bity files in the 50GB File Folder.

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