Brian @ Wongside

A couple of days ago I mentioned that I got a new 1TB hard drive and ran stress tests on it using Bst5. I figured I’d post the results as if you’re kinda geeky like me they might be of some interest.

Sequential Write Average transfer: 85.6MB/s
Sequential Read Average transfer: 86.9MB/s

RandomWrite Average transfer: 15MB/s
RandomRead Average transfer: 14.8MB/s

Half Stroke Write Average transfer: 71MB/s
Half Stroke Read Average transfer: 19.5MB/s

I’m no expert, and I frankly have no idea what a half stroke write or read is. (Does that mean the hard drive did a half stroke across the drive? I have no idea.) But that seems to be pretty compelling evidence to keep my hard drive defragged. When the drive wrote sequentially, it was nearly 6 times faster than writing to random locations about the drive, and even more so for the difference in read speed.

Anyways, just a few interesting tidbits on a Sunday for you.