This data cane be seen on the first page under load/unload count 0000000D (which is 13) for a drive that has only been powered on 5 times and has less than an hour of use. To combat this, manufactures have introduced very aggressive head parking, which causes wear in other areas of the drive.
Usually, PC Mark 8 reports time to complete the trace, but the detailed log report has the read and write bandwidth figures which we present in our performance graphs. The command line version allows us to cherry-pick storage traces to run on a target drive. The storage workload involves games as well as multimedia editing applications. The internal disk temperature was only slightly more than 40 C even after more than 127 GB of writes and 127 GB of reads continuously.įor the second use-case, we take advantage of PC Mark 8's storage bench. The above benchmark run was also instrumented to record the drive temperature as well as instantaneous transfer rates during the process. Seagate Backup Plus Portable 4TB robocopy Benchmarks (MBps)
The full details of the reasoning behind choosing the above build components can be found here. Thanks to Asus and Corsair for the build components AnandTech DAS Testbed ConfigurationĪsus BW-16D1HT 16x Blu-ray Write (w/ M-Disc Support)
One of the USB 3.0 ports hanging off the PCH was used to connect the unit. In order to evaluate the DAS aspect of the Backup Plus Portable, we utilized the testbed outlined in the table below to test the performance.
Mac users can also download a NTFS driver for their system, making the unit truly portable across multiple operating systems.
The root folder also had setup files that opened up the default browser for registering the device / downloading the value-add software (Lyve / Seagate Dashboard). The views of the moderation team do not reflect the view of Microsoft or its subsidiaries.The Backup Plus Portable 4TB drive came pre-formatted in NTFS. Note: We are not affiliated with Microsoft or its subsidiaries in any official capacity. Showoff Sunday - all pictures of achievements, gamerscore, controllers, custom art/mods, battle stations, and so forth are only allowed as posts on Sundays. posts must be within the weekly megathread. and posts must be properly tagged or they will be removed.
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