Recent content by frherbers

These values I see on 3 Seagate IronWolf drives, which have similar specs, show a dip of 55MiB/s, this is some 25-30% dip. Here we are talking of a 120MiB/s dip, a 50% dip. Less data; looking at the last 3TB (which is 25% of the drive) the avg is 150MiB/s, which is 100MiB/s less on avg...

The WD Ultrastar DC HC520 / HGST He12 should have a transfer rate of 243MiB/sec. This is true for the first two TBs, but than it degrades to only 50% in the center of the drive. Used the following script to run 5 cycles. For each cycle measured the transfer rate at each start of a TB...