And this is where disk benchmark tools come in.

High-performing HDDs will improve your PC performance and this is why they are highly demanded by many users. If it’s slow, your computer will lag regardless of how much memory you have or how high-performing the CPU is. Benchmark: PassMark PerformanceTest 8.Home › Software › Best Disk Benchmark Tools: Test Disk Speed & HDD PerformanceĪ Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is an important PC component that influences the speed of your device. I will let you take a look at the results in our comparison graphs above.ġ.

Generally speaking, we can see while the WD Red Pro 6TB performs a little better in linear tests, in a case where high IOPS are needed, the WD Black 6TB retains the performance crown. That said, the WD6001FZWX posted class leading results, along with its Red Pro 6TB cousin, in these areas compared to other mechanical disks delivering a noticeable advantage over everybody else. Like all HDDs in the presence of an SSD, it was blown away in the 4K and 4K QD32 results. For a drive of this caliber, these results were excellent, where it was reminiscent of the Red Pro 6TB, another 7,200RPM drive with five 1.2TB platters from Western Digital. It was obviously no contest against the Crucial SSD, but neither is the SSD's capacity against this 6TB monster. As you can see in our charts above, compared against a few select drives namely, hard drives from HGST, Seagate, and Western Digital, along with a mainstream MX200 500GB SSD from Crucial, the 7,200RPM Western Digital Black WD6001FZWX 6TB was a star once again. Crystal Disk Mark is an important benchmark, because it tests the input/output operations per second capability of the storage device. Select test data (Random, 0Fill, 1Fill)Ĭrystal Disk Mark 3.0 is in the spotlight.

Measure random 512KB, 4KB, 4KB (Queue Depth=32) reads/writes speed

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