Western Digital 4TB Red HDD Storage Review

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Ok, so we are only testing one, but you cannot beat a picture of six of them together, they are like steel bricks compared to the SSD’s on the market.

Western Digital 4TB Red

Test Set Up

All synthetic tests are carried out three times with the best result taken. We used the various software’s own test count settings, so for example CrystalMarkx64 we ran the test count at nine, but repeated this three times.

Synthetic Tests

  • IOMeter
  • CrystalMarkx64

We are used to testing SSD’s on Hardwareslave, and we have tested HDD’s for many years in all configurations. They are the “go to” drive for storage, and if you are still using them for your OS drive, it’s time to change! We are only going to run through a couple of tests, we have dropped the ADIA64 and PCMark tests for this one. We have a number of RAID benchmarks on the following articles,

For example, below is a 4000Mb test with hardware and software RAID, including a single disk test. We ran through a number of tests before deciding on the RAID set up for out Server, all using the Western Digital 4TB Red drive.

clustered - Server Part 3 4000Mb | amCharts


Part 5 coming soon including a chassis upgrade, Windows 10 64bit installation, a disk configuration change and network back ups.

Western Digital 4TB Red HDD Storage Review

Package - 9
Performance - 8.5
Price - 8.6
Consumer Experience - 8.5

8.7

We put this together due to the solid performance we are seeing with our HomeServer project. We had a fair idea on how this drive would perform, we tested extensively prior to deciding on the RAID configuration. We wanted to run through a dedicated review to show the average reader the performance of this HDD without the context of a Server build, so what do we think of the Western Digital 4TB Red?

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