Seagate Astro Bot Limited Edition Game Drive 5TB Review

The PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark has been designed to test drives that are used for storing files rather than applications. You can also use this test with NAS drives, USB sticks, memory cards, and other external storage devices.
The Data Drive Benchmark uses 3 traces, running 3 passes with each trace.

Trace 1. Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, into the target drive (write test).
Trace 2. Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
Trace 3. Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test)

Here we show the total bandwidth performance for each of the individual traces.

The PCMark 10 Data Drive benchmark figures are what you would expect to see from a 5,400rpm drive using this interface, with a best of 48MB/s in the read and read-write tests, with the write test not far behind at 42MB/s.

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