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Out of the box, the drive is factory formatted as exFAT. To run our benchmarks, we re-formatted the drive as NTFS.
CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSDs. We are using V8.
The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage system's performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customise 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 manufacturer's 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 benchmarking 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 it is difficult in trying to judge accurate performance figures.
Using the CrystalDiskInfo utility, the drive inside the 5TB Astro Bot Limited Edition Game Drive is recognised as a 5,400rpm Seagate Barracuda drive, which has a data transfer performance rated as up to 140MB/s. Most of the tested Sequential read/write confirmed the official figure, with a best read speed of 147.76MB/s from the CrystalDiskMark Peak Performance test, which also provided the best write figure of 147.36MB/s. The 4K test scores are in the range of what you might expect from a drive with this spindle speed over a USB3.0 interface.
