Seagate Astro Bot Limited Edition Game Drive 5TB Review

1. Introduction2. Seagate Astro Bot Limited Edition Game Drive 5TB3. ATTO/CrystalDiskMark/AS SSD4. Throughput5. PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark6. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 7. Real Life File Testing8. Closing Thoughts9. View All Pages

The 3DMark Storage Benchmark uses traces recorded from popular games and gaming-related activities to measure real-world gaming performance.

Traces used:

Battlefield V
Loading Battlefield™ V from launch to the main menu.

Call of Duty Black Ops 4
Loading Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 from launch to the main menu.

Overwatch
Loading Overwatch® from launch to the main menu.

Game Move
Copying the Steam folder for Counter-Strike®: Global Offensive from an external SSD to the system drive.

Game Recording
Recording a 1080p gameplay video at 60 FPS with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) while playing Overwatch®.

Installing Game
Installing The Outer Worlds® from the Epic Games Launcher.

Game Saving
Saving progress in The Outer Worlds game.

When tested with the 3DMark Storage benchmark, the drive had an average bandwidth of 23.32MB/s when loading the three games (at an average time of 2895μs, 2.89ms), the fastest being the 32.72MB/s for Battlefield V trace (2640μs, 2.46ms). For the other four tests, the drive averaged 26.75MB/s (average time of 8.6ms). For the whole test, the drive had an average bandwidth figure of 15.24MB/s.

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