Following request from numerous readers, we have performed a new set of benchmarks with the Hitachi 3.5" 1TB HD (Xbench results being too unreliable).
We have been using ZoneBench 1.3.1 which is part of the powerful but expensive SpeedTools Utilities.
This software measure reading and writing performance of the drive at the beginning and at the end of the HD plates (respectively the fastest and slowest area). It provides interesting information:
- One can obtain the highest and lowest performance level.
- One can use a drive already loaded with data without modifying the result.
- It can be used on a booting volume without affecting its performance.
To avoid biased results due to the cache memory, we have been using a 60MB file.
Hereafter is the result obtained with a Hitachi:
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