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SATA III HDD Write Speed

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Those numbers are 100% normal. If you want, I can post my numbers for one of my hard drives for comparison.

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Hi all, I have a SATA III Seagate Baracude ST2000DM001 HDD and I am wondering what the read and write speeds should be; currently I get anywhere from 6.0MB/s to just below 100 Mb/s write speads, is this correct for the hard drive?

Regards, Laz.

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Sometimes write speeds can flucuate depending on the files being written.  Your write speeds are normal.

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I wouldn't call that particularly normal I had the 1 and 3 TB versions and was getting 50-175MB/s while moving stuff between them.

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It really depends on what interface you plug it into.

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Hi all, I have a SATA III Seagate Baracude ST2000DM001 HDD and I am wondering what the read and write speeds should be; currently I get anywhere from 6.0MB/s to just below 100 Mb/s write speads, is this correct for the hard drive?

Regards, Laz.

This is fine, you probably were moving little files around.

 

If you want to be sure, run CrystalDiskMark and post your scores here.

 

It really depends on what interface you plug it into.

It does not. Almost no hard drive these days is bottlenecked by the SATA interface.

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CrystalDiskMark Results:

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 x64 © 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [sATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

           Sequential Read :   168.203 MB/s
          Sequential Write :   149.263 MB/s
         Random Read 512KB :    41.930 MB/s
        Random Write 512KB :    65.546 MB/s
    Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :     0.430 MB/s [   105.0 IOPS]
   Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :     0.845 MB/s [   206.2 IOPS]
   Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :     0.977 MB/s [   238.4 IOPS]
  Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :     0.904 MB/s [   220.6 IOPS]

  Test : 1000 MB [C: 40.0% (745.3/1862.7 GB)] (x5)
  Date : 2013/09/09 2:46:06
    OS : Windows 8  [6.2 Build 9200] (x64)
 

Gathering what you have all said I think it looks normal. But I wanted to make sure as I have only just built this PC and wasn't sure if it was correct.

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Those numbers are 100% normal. If you want, I can post my numbers for one of my hard drives for comparison.

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