WD Purple 6TB Surveillance Hard Drive Review

Anvil’s Storage Utilities

Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a relative new benchmarking utility that has the ability to test mainly hard drives and solid state drives, but also any other form of storage medium that you can throw at it. It is completely free as well, which is a nice thing

As well as testing the drive in a variety of benchmarking tests, it also has a drive endurance test that consistently reads and writes data to the selected medium to give days, months and potentially even years of use in a shorter period of time to see how the drive handles in the long run.

Compressible Data

Incompressible Data

Drive Comparison

There is no doubt that the WD Purple 6TB is a great drive when we look at the results from Anvil’s Storage Benchmark. The Purple places itself right next to the WD Red with only a marginal difference.