Review

  1. Introduction
  2. Specifications and Closer Look
  3. Test Bench and Methodology
  4. AS SSD Benchmark
  5. ATTO Benchmark
  6. AIDA64 Sequential Access Time
  7. Boot Load Test
  8. CrystalDiskMark Benchmark
  9. HD Tune Pro Benchmark
  10. Transfer Tests
  11. PCMark Vantage and 7 HDD Suite Benchmarks
  12. Conclusion

Although this drive is used for AS SSDs, the tests in these give a good idea of Sequential, 4K Aligned, 4K Aligned with 64Bit thread test and the Access time of the hard drive. It uses incompressible data.

WD Red 3TB AS SSD

Access Times for both Read and Write doesn’t really look very encouraging. Then again, its not designed to be a drive primarily for a boot drive.

WD Red 3TB AS SSD Read Graph

WD Red 3TB AS SSD Write Graph

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