WD Purple 6TB Surveillance Hard Drive RAID Review

AS SSD

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. To give a clearer picture of the drives tested, I’ve chosen to include all tests. Special the copy test is one that I think is relevant on the consumer level as it gives the user a view

To give a clearer picture of the drives tested, I’ve chosen to include all tests, also the copy test. While it isn’t the most static test, I think it is a relevant test in the eyes of consumers, giving them a view into one of the operations they’re going to be doing many times.

RAID 0 Performance

RAID 1 Performance

AS SSD paints the picture of where the WD Purple really shines: Random write operation. That is a really good thing because that is what it needs, especially when dealing with a lot of HD cameras on your surveillance station. For the rest, we see the same picture as before, a drive that scales well in our setup.