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I am trying to compare performance of several hard drives in my current system, and downloaded performance test 9.0 to try to run some comparisons. Things were going well until I ran the test on a 1TB western digital drive, and I am having a hard time believing the results, and now they are all suspect in my mind. This is the specs for the drive http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4853015
I have run multiple tests, with different file sizes and I am consistently get over 700MB/Sec for the read tests. I can't believe that is true, so im assuming something is off with the tests, but the results for my other drives look correct/reasonable.
PerformanceTest Results can be seen
So, one just to make sure im not loosing my mind, there isn't a cache system, of anything that could make these results legit right? Assuming thats the case, can anyone recommend a good performance test tool for testing hard drives?
Since the question was unclear I was looking for two things. 1. A sanity check that I wasn't over looking something stupid that could be cause the test to be skewed. 2. A good way to preform a general performance test against multiple drives to compare the drives against each other.
Here is some user brenchmarks for Seagate Barracuda 1TB drive to compare: http://hdd.userbenchmark.com/Seagate-Barracuda-1TB-2016/Rating/3896 . Hope it helps.
– Aulis Ronkainen – 2018-09-19T03:28:17.890I think it is something wrong with the testing software. You can change a hard drive software and have a try. Try the software HDD scan. – Peter.G – 2018-09-19T07:52:35.613
Can you tell us the model of the drive? Your question is attracting close votes due to the lack of data, could you possibly include the output? – Burgi – 2018-09-19T08:02:32.607
I updated the question. I included the drive specs, and a screenshot of the test results. – Patrick – 2018-09-19T12:43:36.167
Maybe caching is the cause of the problems. Just make the test file 2x your ram, and test again. – davidbaumann – 2018-09-21T03:10:25.567
It's word, I ran the same test on 4 other drives in the pc, they all came back with around where I expected, this is the only anomoly. – Patrick – 2018-09-21T03:12:06.087