Seagate BarraCuda Pro 14TB Desktop HDD Review

Bohs Hansen / 6 years ago

AIDA64 Engineer

AIDA64 is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users. It provides a wide range of features to assist in overclocking, hardware error diagnosis, stress testing, and sensor monitoring. It also has a disk benchmark tool, and that is the one I’ll be using.

Seagate BarraCuda Pro 14TB Bench aida 0 suite

Random Performance

The Random Read and Write tests measure the random performance by reading or writing variable-sized data blocks at random locations on the surface of the drive. The Random tests are a combination of both speed and access times as it moves the position before each new operation.

Seagate BarraCuda Pro 14TB Bench aida 2 random read

Seagate BarraCuda Pro 14TB Bench aida 2 random write

Access Times

The Access time tests are designed to measure the data access performance by reading or writing small 0.5KB data blocks at random locations on the drive surface.

Seagate BarraCuda Pro 14TB Bench aida 3 access read

Seagate BarraCuda Pro 14TB Bench aida 3 access write

Drive Analysis

Seagate BarraCuda Pro 14TB ChartAnalysis AIDA access

Drive Comparison

Seagate BarraCuda Pro 14TB ChartComparison AIDA latency

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