Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD 500 GB HDD Review
CrystalDiskMark
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CrystalDiskMark is a disk drive benchmarking program that measures the write and read speed in different block sizes. We compared the results in sequential read and write, and in 512 kiB block size read and write. We configured it for five repetitions of each test of 1 GB of random data.
The graph below shows the sequential read speed for each drive, in MB/s.
In this test, the Laptop Thin SSHD was the worst performer, being 17% slower than the Barracuda 7200.12, 8% slower than the ST500LM012, and 5% slower than the Z5K500-500.
The next graph shows the write speed of sequential data, in MB/s.
In sequential write, the Laptop Thin SSHD performed the same way than the other 2.5” drives, and 11% slower than the Barracuda 7200.12.
The following graph presents the random read speed with 512 kB blocks, in MB/s.
In the 512 kiB block random read test, the Laptop Thin SSHD reached the lowest performance of the included drives, being 6% slower than the Z5K500-500, 13% slower than the ST500LM012, and 29% slower than the Barracuda 7200.12.
The following graph presents the random write speed with 512 kB blocks, in MB/s.
In the 512 kiB blocks random write test, the Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD outperformed the Hitachi Z5K500-500 by 71% and the Seagate ST500LM012 by 40%, but was 13% slower than the Barracuda 7200.12.