WD Purple 6TB Surveillance Hard Drive RAID Review

Bohs Hansen / 9 years ago

PCMark 8

PCMark 8 Storage benchmark is used test the performance of SSDs, HDDs, and hybrid drives with traces recorded from Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office and a selection of popular games. You can test any recognized storage device, including local external drives. Unlike synthetic storage tests, the PCMark 8 Storage benchmark highlights real-world performance differences between storage devices.

Yes, I know that the WD Purple isn’t designed to be worked in a desktop environment where these apps and games are run, but I’ll still include it for the sake of comparison.

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RAID 0 Performance

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RAID 1 Performance

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WD Purple 6TB Surveillance Hard Drive RAID Review

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