1. Introduction2. WD Black D50 Game Dock 1TB3. Testing Methodology4. ATTO/CrystalDiskMark/AS SSD5. Backup / Restore6. Throughput7. PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark8. Real Life File Transfers9. Closing Thoughts10. 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, on 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.

The WD Black D50 handles the PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark pretty well with the best performance result of the three traces being the 383MB/s for the read-write test.

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