WD GOLD 12TB 3.5-Inch Datacenter Hard Disk Review

Bohs Hansen / 6 years ago

AS SSD Benchmark

The AS SSD software determines the performance of Solid State Drives (SSD). The tool contains five synthetic and three practice tests. The synthetic tests determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD. These tests are performed without using the operating system caches. In Sequential tests, the program measures the time it takes to read and write a 1 GB file respectively.

Empty Drive

WD Gold 12TB Bench asssd combined 0

WD Gold 12TB Bench asssd 4 compr 0

75% Data Fillage

WD Gold 12TB Bench asssd combined 75

WD Gold 12TB Bench asssd 4 compr 75

Drive Performance Analysis

The drive-analysis shows the drive’s performance over various fillage scenarios. The straighter the line, the better the result. We really want a consistent performance across the entire drive.

WD Gold 12TB ChartAnal ASSSD seq

WD Gold 12TB ChartAnal ASSSD random

WD Gold 12TB ChartAnal ASSSD access times

Drive Comparison

For comparison reasons, the drive comparison chart will use values from the fresh and empty drive.

WD Gold 12TB ChartComp ASSSD seq

WD Gold 12TB ChartComp ASSSD ran

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