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#WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT 4TB 2016 SLOW BLINK ARCHIVE#

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#WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT 4TB 2016 SLOW BLINK ARCHIVE#

The Seagate Innov8 is nowhere in the picture because of the Archive HDD inside, but its use-case (bus-powered high-capacity DAS) is quite different compared to the My Book. The G-Technology G-Drive with Thunderbolt 8TB betters the My Book 8TB consistently even over the former's non-UASP USB 3.0 interface. The performance numbers show that the My Passport 4TB performs better than the LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Drive 4TB for reads, while the situation is reversed for writes (which is similar to the behavior we encountered in the CrystalDiskMark traces).

The same procedure is adopted for the Videos and the BR folders. This process is repeated thrice and the average of all the runs is recorded as the performance number. The segments end with the purge of the contents from the storage device. The first segment gives the write speed, while the second one gives the read speed for the storage device. robocopy is again used to transfer the content, but, from the storage drive under test to the RAM drive. The content on the RAM drive is then deleted. robocopy is used with default arguments to mirror it onto the storage drive under test. The test starts off with the Photos folder in a RAM drive in the testbed. BR: 10.7 GB Blu-ray folder structure of the IDT Benchmark Blu-ray (the same that we use in our robocopy tests for NAS systems).Videos: 16.1 GB collection of 244 videos (MP4 as well as MOVs) in 6 sub-folders.Photos: 15.6 GB collection of 4320 photos (RAW as well as JPEGs) in 61 sub-folders.In this test, we transfer three folders with the following characteristics. Moving on to the real-world benchmarks, we first look at the results from our custom robocopy test. That said, the LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Drive performs better overall for this set of artificial benchmark traces. Going back to the comparison, we find that the different bridge chip configuration, as well as differences in caching and hard drive firmware, make each of the units perform better than the other under different use-case scenarios. The Seagate Backup Plus, though being based on the same internal drive as the LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Drive, was evaluated with an older version of CrystalDiskMark / different testbed, and its results are only presented here for the sake of completeness. The second interesting comparison is between the My Passport and the LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Drive. HDD-Based Direct-Attached Storage Benchmarks - CrystalDiskMark While the 1 MB sequential access traces show the 7200 RPM drive in better light, the use of a bridge chip supporting UASP helps the 5400 RPM My Book pull ahead by a huge margin in the high queue-depth sequential access trace.

The first interesting comparison in the table below is between the My Book with the 5400 RPM HelioSeal drive and the G-Technology G-Drive with Thunderbolt over USB 3.0 that employs a 7200 RPM HelioSeal drive. The plain '4K' ones are similar to the '4K Q32T1' except that only a single queue and single thread are used.

The plain 'Seq' traces use a 1MiB block size. The 'Seq Q32T1' sequential traces use 128K block size with a queue depth of 32 from a single thread, while the '4K Q32T1' ones do random 4K accesses with the same queue and thread configurations. Internally, CrystalDiskMark uses the Microsoft DiskSpd storage testing tool. Two of the traces are sequential accesses, while two are 4K rando accesses. Real-world performance testing is done with our custom test suite involving robocopy bencharks and PCMark 8's storage bench.ĬrystalDiskMark uses four different access traces for reads and writes over a configurable region size. CrystalDiskMark is used for a quick performance overview. Our evaluation routine for hard-drive based direct-attached storage devices borrows heavily from the testing methodology for flash-based direct-attached storage devices.

Western digital my passport 4tb 2016 slow blink