Western Digital 3.5″ Red 6TB NAS HDD Review

Test Procedure

Test System:

• Supermicro C7Z97-OCE motherboard
• Intel Xeon E3-1230Lv3
• Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz 8GB
• Corsair H100i
• BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 10 850W
• Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD

Software used:

• Aida64 Storage Benchmark
• Anvil’s Storage Utilities 1.1.0
• AS SSD Benchmark 1.7.4739
• ATTO Benchmark 2.46
• CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3
• IOMeter
• HD Tach

Testing a mechanical hard drive’s performance is pretty straight forward and not much to say about. I will be testing the drive in a wide a variety of applications to gather as many tests results as possible. This will in return hopefully allow you to find just the right comparison and to make a decision about your next drive purchase.