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

To test the 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 the drive reading from & writing to a 2TB Kingston KC3000 Gen4 NVMe drive.

Transfer Details:
Data file – 100GB.
Windows 11 iso – 5.4GB.
File folder – 50GB – 28,523 files.
Movie demos 8K – 21GB – (11 demos).
Raw Movie Clips 4K – 16GB – (9 MP4V files).
Movie folder – 12GB – 15 files – (8 @ .MKV, 4 @ .MOV, 3 @ MP4).
Photo Folder – 10GB – 304 files – (171 @ .RAW, 105 @ JPG, 21 @ .CR2, 5 @ .DNG).
Audio Folder – 10GB – 1,483 files – (1479 @ MP3, 4 @ .FLAC files).
Single large image – 5GB – 1.5bn pixel photo.
3D Printer File Folder – 4.25GB – (166 files – 105 @ .STL, 38 @ .FBX, 11 @ .blend, 5 @ .lwo, 4 @ .OBJ, 3@ .3ds).
AutoCAD File Folder – 1.5GB (80 files – 60 @ .DWG and 20 @.DXF).

On the whole, the drive performed reasonably well when it came to dealing with our real-life file transfers although it struggled writing the small bity files of the 50GB file. It averaged 111MB/s for the 12 transfers when in write mode, the fastest being the 140MB/s for the 100GB data file transfer, the slowest was the 50GB File Folder at 29MB/s. When reading the data back, the drive averaged 135MB/s. The fastest read speed, 144MB/s was achieved by three transfers: the 100GB data file, the 8K folder, the AutoCAD folder and the Win 11 iso image. Once again, the slowest was the 50GB file folder at 86MB/s.

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