Seagate Desktop HDD 4 TB vs. Western Digital WD Black 4 TB Hard Drive Review
CrystalDiskMark
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We used CrystalDiskMark’s default configuration for our tests, which benchmarked each hard drive using a file size of 1,000 MB with five test runs. You can see the results below.
In the sequential read test, the WD Black 4 TB drive exhibited the best performance, beating the Seagate Desktop HDD 4 TB by 14 percent.
The WD Black 4 TB also came out on top on the sequential write test, outperforming the Desktop HDD 4 TB by 12%.
In the random read test using 512 kiB blocks, the WD Black 4 TB also came out on top, beating the Desktop HDD 4 TB by 16%.
Moving on to the random write test using 512 kiB blocks, the WD Black 4 TB was 28% faster than the Seagate Desktop HDD 4 TB.
In the random read test using 4 kiB blocks, the WB Black outperformed the Desktop HDD by 32%.
In the random write test using 4 kiB blocks, the WD Black 4 TB was 43% faster than the Seagate Desktop HDD 4 TB.