Testing a drive like this is a pretty straight forward process. A mechanical drive does not have the same impact from wear and tear as solid state drives and as such the drive doesn’t require any conditioning. I’ll still be running extensive tests with various data fillage scenarios and benchmark applications.
First I’ll test the drive empty after which I’ll gradually fill it with 25% data at a time and retest it under each of these fill scenarios. This will give us a detailed view on the drives performance as it fills up and whether that has any impact on the performance or not. For these tests I’ll be using the well-known ATTO, Anvil’s Storage Utilities, AS SSD, and CrystalDiskMark benchmark tools.
Following the fillage tests, I’ll be using AIDA 64 and IOmeter to get a more detailed view of the drive’s raw performance. These tests run best with an unpartitioned drive and as such exclude data fillage, but in return we get even more details on the drive’s performance, including access times, sequential, and random performance.
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