WD Black P40 Game Drive 500GB External SSD

1. Introduction2. WD Black P40 Game Drive 500GB3. ATTO/CrystalDiskMark/AS SSD4. Throughput 5. PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark6. Real Life File Transfers7. Closing Thoughts8. View All Pages

The PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark has been designed to test drives that are used for storing files rather than applications. You can also use this test with NAS drives, USB sticks, memory cards, and other external storage devices.

The Data Drive Benchmark uses 3 traces, running 3 passes with each trace.

Trace 1. Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, in to the target drive (write test).
Trace 2. Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
Trace 3. Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test)

Here we show the total bandwidth performance for each of the individual traces.

WD's Black P40 Game Drive handles the rigours of the PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark very well indeed. It's the second fastest USB 3.2 Gen 2 x 2 drive we've seen to date, beaten only by Seagate's FireCuda Gaming SSD in the overall bandwidth figure and all three test traces.

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