Seagate ARCHIVE 8TB HDD review - Test Environment & Equipment

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/19/2016 10:35 AM [

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Hardware & Software Used

We now begin the benchmark portion of this article, but first let me show you our test system and the software we used:

Storage

Seagate 8 TB HDD - Archive series V2

Mainboard

X99 - Intel SATA 6G controller at AHCI mode

Processor

Core i7 5960X

Graphics Cards

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Memory

16 GB (4x 4096 MB) DDR3 2133 MHz

Power Supply Unit

1200 Watt

Monitor

Dell 3007WFP - up to 2560x1600

OS related Software

Windows 10 64-bit

Software benchmark suite

PCMark Vantage HDD test 1 through 8
Anvil's Storage Utilities
ATTO Disk benchmark
SiSoft Sandra Storage Benchmark
HDTach
HDTune Pro
IOMeter
AS SSD Benchmark
File Copy Compressed test
File Copy Uncompressed test

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