SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB Review

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.

Trace 1 Write Test compared.

Trace 2 Read-Write Test compared.

Trace 3 Read Test compared.

The 8TB Desk Drive handles the PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark well enough. It sits in the top 10 drives for all three parts of the benchmark run (Read-Write, Read and Write traces). It performs best by a very small margin in the Read-Write test. Its overall bandwidth result of 217MB/s sees the drive in sixth place on the results chart.

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