WD My Passport SSD 256GB 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.

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.
BlueRay Movie.

When it comes to handling the real life data transfers the read performance of the My Passport SSD is much faster than write. It took just under 5 and a half minutes to copy the contents of the 60GB Steam folder to the drive and just over 3 and a half to read the data back.

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