1 Benchmark:HGST Touro S 1TB 7200 RPM
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@oper.io
5 :revdate: March 04, 2016
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8 A few months ago, I needed an external drive with better performance than all
9 of my others. Given that each had a single platter, had 64 MB of cache, and
10 rotated at 5400 rpm, I thought I should upgrade at least one of those areas to
11 get a better performing drive.
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13 I got online and searched around for external USB drives rotating at 7200 rpm,
14 and happened upon a surprisingly lackluster offering, excepting for one product
15 line: the Touro drives.
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17 Having never used a Touro drive, I performed a lot of research and found very
18 little about what was actually inside this drive. It appears to contain a dual
19 platter drive, but with two 32 MB caches (one per platter?). Either way, the
20 results were impressively higher than that of any other drives I own.
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22 Over a USB 3 port, I managed consistently top out writing data at 145 MB/s, and
23 reading data at a near symetrical 147 MB/s.
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25 Here are the benchmark results I generated.
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27 NOTE: This benchmark was performed using a tool I wrote in bash called
28 link:src/nullspoon/dd-bench.git[dd-bench]. It's open source (GPLv3), so please
29 feel free to use it and send feedback and pull requests to {email}.
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33 image:files/benchmarks-hgst-touro-1tb.jpg[height=350]
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37 Benchmark started at Fri Mar 4 21:33:16 MST 2016
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40 1 KB Block Size
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43 NOTE: The other block size benchmarks go up to 20 GB of data. Due to the time
44 consumption of doing that in 1 KB increments, I capped this one at ~80 MB.
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46 Mar 04 21:33:16: *** Testing 1 KB blocks
47 Mar 04 21:33:18: Wrote 1K 10240 times. 10 MB, 10 MiB written at 6.7 MB/s.
48 Mar 04 21:33:19: Read 1K 10240 times. 10 MB, 10 MiB read at 7.8 MB/s.
49 Mar 04 21:33:29: Wrote 1K 81920 times. 84 MB, 80 MiB written at 7.9 MB/s.
50 Mar 04 21:33:39: Read 1K 81920 times. 84 MB, 80 MiB read at 8.4 MB/s.
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53 1 MB Block Size
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56 Mar 04 21:33:39: *** Testing 1 MB blocks
57 Mar 04 21:33:47: Wrote 1M 1024 times. 1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB written at 146 MB/s.
58 Mar 04 21:33:54: Read 1M 1024 times. 1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB read at 143 MB/s.
59 Mar 04 21:34:54: Wrote 1M 8192 times. 8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB written at 144 MB/s.
60 Mar 04 21:35:53: Read 1M 8192 times. 8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB read at 147 MB/s.
61 Mar 04 21:38:21: Wrote 1M 20480 times. 21 GB, 20 GiB written at 145 MB/s.
62 Mar 04 21:40:47: Read 1M 20480 times. 21 GB, 20 GiB read at 147 MB/s.
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65 2 MB Block Size
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68 Mar 04 21:40:47: *** Testing 2 MB blocks
69 Mar 04 21:40:54: Wrote 2M 512 times. 1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB written at 146 MB/s.
70 Mar 04 21:41:02: Read 2M 512 times. 1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB read at 144 MB/s.
71 Mar 04 21:42:01: Wrote 2M 4096 times. 8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB written at 145 MB/s.
72 Mar 04 21:43:00: Read 2M 4096 times. 8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB read at 147 MB/s.
73 Mar 04 21:45:28: Wrote 2M 10240 times. 21 GB, 20 GiB written at 145 MB/s.
74 Mar 04 21:47:54: Read 2M 10240 times. 21 GB, 20 GiB read at 147 MB/s.
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77 4 MB Block Size
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80 Mar 04 21:47:54: *** Testing 4 MB blocks
81 Mar 04 21:48:01: Wrote 4M 256 times. 1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB written at 146 MB/s.
82 Mar 04 21:48:09: Read 4M 256 times. 1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB read at 144 MB/s.
83 Mar 04 21:49:08: Wrote 4M 2048 times. 8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB written at 145 MB/s.
84 Mar 04 21:50:06: Read 4M 2048 times. 8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB read at 147 MB/s.
85 Mar 04 21:52:34: Wrote 4M 5120 times. 21 GB, 20 GiB written at 145 MB/s.
86 Mar 04 21:55:00: Read 4M 5120 times. 21 GB, 20 GiB read at 147 MB/s.
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89 1 GB Block Size
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92 Mar 04 21:55:00: *** Testing 1 GB blocks
93 Mar 04 21:55:08: Wrote 1G 1 times. 1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB written at 139 MB/s.
94 Mar 04 21:55:16: Read 1G 1 times. 1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB read at 136 MB/s.
95 Mar 04 21:56:16: Wrote 1G 8 times. 8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB written at 143 MB/s.
96 Mar 04 21:57:15: Read 1G 8 times. 8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB read at 145 MB/s.
97 Mar 04 21:59:45: Wrote 1G 20 times. 21 GB, 20 GiB written at 143 MB/s.
98 Mar 04 22:02:11: Read 1G 20 times. 21 GB, 20 GiB read at 146 MB/s.
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