Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD 6 TB Review

Single Client Access - DAS Benchmarks

The Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD was connected to a 6 Gbps SATA port off the PCH in our DAS testbed. After formatting in NTFS, it was subject to our DAS test suite. While processing our DAS suite, we also recorded the instantaneous transfer rates and temperature of the drive. The drive remains quite cool (less than 40 C) even after more than 250 GB of traffic in less than 30 minutes.

The graphs below present the average transfer rates for the various workloads and how they compare against other HDDs of the same capacity that have been evaluated before.

Except for a couple of workloads, the performance of the Enterprise NAS HDD closely tracks that of the Enterprise Capacity v4. Similar cache sizes and rotational speeds are responsible for this behavior, with firmware differences accounting for the extra edge enjoyed by the Enterprise Capacity v4.