Testing (continued):

CrystalDiskMark 3.0 (continued):

Reducing the file size don to 4K still allowed the GoFlex Desk to outperform the reference drives. USB 3.0 speeds performed just as well as the USB 2.0 speeds.



The GoFlex Desk more than doubled the performance of the other drives in writing 4K blocks. This is an impressive difference in performance.



Real World File Transfers:

To test the real world performance of the Seagate GoFlex Desk, two common file types were selected. One folder containing 4.1GB of MP3 files (small files), and another 4.5GB ISO (large file) will be used for the test. The writing speed will be timed with a stopwatch, which will be started when the mouse button is released to copy the files to the hard drive.

In writing a large number of MP3 files, the Seagate GoFlex Desk was approximately 25 seconds faster than the competition. Here is a good example why USB 3.0 needs to be adopted by everybody. Saving almost 2.5 minutes to transfer the files is impressive. Keeping in mind that this is a 3TB drive, you could potentially save hours to days in transfer times.



Writing a large ISO file, the GoFlex Desk was once again able to outperform the competition. This time, the performance gap closes and the GoFlex is only 15 seconds faster. USB 3.0 again is much faster, however only by about 50 seconds.