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With the gradual popularization of SNB platform, USB 3.0 mobile storage device is gradually increased. Western Digital (WD)’s Elements ES series also introduced a 1tb external hard drive, Micro USB 3.0 B interface.

Appearance, adhering to the Elements ES series features, a compact design, heavy. Here we enter the actual testing phase to see how the performance of this drive.

In theory, USB 3.0 transfer rate of 4.8Gb / s, is 600MB / s. Due to various constraints actually not reach the theoretical value, external hard drive using the traditional mechanical hard disk system, the current speed varies, 110MB / s sustained read and write are the majority. It’s like, USB 2.0 theoretical speed is 60MB / s, the actual external hard disk can only reach 30MB / s or so.

Let’s look at HD Tune and HD Tach test results, and the burst rate of 144.1MB / s, in fact the gap from the theoretical maximum value is also very far. The average read transfer rate is about 65MB / s, the average storage time is about 18.5ms.

CrystalDiskMark and ATTO Disk Benchmark test results.

Finally, we look at the actual results of copy the file with FastCopy, 6.7GB of MKV HD movies, copy completion time is 83.34 seconds, the transmission rate is 80.51MB / s.

Summary: In the performance, mainly in sustained read and write performance, this hard drive slightly lower than the same type of USB 3.0 external hard drive. However 1TB capacity, USB 3.0 external hard drive is not too much, this is the biggest advantage of Western Digital Elements ES 1 TB USB 3.0 external hard drive.

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