WD My Passport SSD 1TB Review

Out of the box, the drive is formatted as exFAT but in order to run some our benchmarks we re-formatted it as NTFS.

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We used V7 to test the drive.

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 manufacturers 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.

Officially the drive is rated as up to 1,050MB/s for reads and up to 1,000MB/s for writes. Under testing, we couldn't quite hit these maximums but we got the closest with ATTO (1,025MB/s read 963MB/s write) and the default CrystalDiskMark 7 test (1,027MB/s read, 959MB/s write).

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