HDD Benchmarks: HD Tune Pro Read / Write

Single drive result graph

In HDTune the 1TB Seagate Constellation ES ST1000NM0011 drive achieves a READ Burst Rate of 182.3MB/s, an Average Read transfer rate of 117.9Mb/s and a Max Read Transfer rate is 147.8MB/s which is in line with advertised specs. Access time is 12.2ms. Compared to the older WD RE4 drive, the Seagate Constellation is a little bit quicker in this Read-oriented hard drive benchmark. Now, onto the write tests.

HD Tune 4.6 - Write Tests Write Average Transfer Rate: (MB/s) Points Ranking Seagate Constellation ES ST1000NM0011 HDD 116.3 Western Digital RE4 1TB WD1003FBYX HDD 108.9 Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD 85.4 Kingston SSDNow 300V 2406GB SSD 356.3 Crucial M4 256GB SSD 282.6 SanDisk Etreme 240GB SSD 350.8 OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD 312.9 OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD 215.4 Plextor PX-128M1S SSD 73.4 Seagate 3TB Barracuda XT HDD 112.5 Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT HDD 105.1 Seagate 750GB Momentus XT SSHD 86.5 Seagate 500GB Momentus XT SSHD 80.9 Write Access Time: (ms) Points Ranking Seagate Constellation ES ST1000NM0011 HDD 5.9 Western Digital RE4 1TB WD1003FBYX HDD 4.4 Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD 10.6969 Kingston SSDNow 300V 2406GB SSD 0.093 Crucial M4 256GB SSD 0.344 SanDisk Etreme 240GB SSD 0.109 OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD 0.146 OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD 10.6969 Plextor PX-128M1S SSD 10.6969 Seagate 3TB Barracuda XT HDD 17.9 Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT HDD 8.03 Seagate 750GB Momentus XT SSHD 15.8 Seagate 500GB Momentus XT SSHD 9.05 Write Burst Rate: (MB/s) Points Ranking Seagate Constellation ES ST1000NM0011 HDD 159.3 Western Digital RE4 1TB WD1003FBYX HDD 157.1 Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD 170.6969 Kingston SSDNow 300V 2406GB SSD 309.6 Crucial M4 256GB SSD 166.7 SanDisk Etreme 240GB SSD 318.8 OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD 335 OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD 170.6969 Plextor PX-128M1S SSD 170.6969 Seagate 3TB Barracuda XT HDD 339.3 Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT HDD 189 Seagate 750GB Momentus XT SSHD 250 Seagate 500GB Momentus XT SSHD 177.4

Single drive results graph

Moving onto the Write tests.... once again we find the Seagate Constellation ES ST1000NM0011 HDD performs a bit faster than the 1TB Western Digital RE4. The Seagate Constellation scores a Burst Write speed of 159MB/s vs 157MB/s for the WD RE4. Average Write speed is 116MB/s which is the quickest of any HDD tested to date. Maximum sustained Write speed peaks at 147.7MB/s.

Next up, Sandra 2012 HDD results.

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