CrystalMarkx64 Read/Write scores are actually looking solid for the old world technology. We are not knocking the not so humble HDD, but sustained transfer rates were always a struggle for mainstream drives.
Though not SSD quick, it’s faster than most home networks, so you won’t really see any slow down from your NAS or Server.
IOMeter next and we run through our usual IOPS and Mb/s tests. It’s important to run a test file larger than your memory, so with 16Gb of RAM, we opted for our usual 20Gb test file. We also included the following parameters for the IOMeter tests;
- Full Random
- 20Gb test file
- 30 minute per test
- 10 second warm up
The test takes a few hours, and always an overnight run, so the drive is going to be thoroughly tested and stressed giving a good indication of high workload scenarios.
Solid results are the only way to describe the Western Digital 4TB Red drive with pretty much identical results within 1Mb/s for all but the 4Kb test.
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?
