FC-Test Results

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Our FC-Test benchmark is split into three parts. First is a write test involving the creation of a file pattern similar to common files such as MP3s or large video files. Once created on the drive, we then copy the file pattern from the drive back to a different folder on the same drive producing a combined read/write test. Finally we test the read speed of the drive by performing FC-Test's read test of the the files copied.

For our benchmarks, we're using both the MP3 pattern, consisting of two hundred and seventy small files totalling 0.99GB, and the the ISO pattern, consisting of three large files totalling 1.6GB in size. We feel these file patterns represent the most common files people will be frequently copying to and from an drive, and can be interpreted as as close to a real world file transfer test as possible.




In our large file create copy and read tests the performance advantage of the Samsung F1 1TB over the competing Seagate 1TB drive is less than in the MP3 test, but still clear, with the Samsung producing an initial write result a full two seconds faster and a read time half a second faster. While these might sound like only minor differences in performance, they'll all add up over time, and especially when the drive is processing multiple simultaneous read/write commands as it would do when operating as a boot disk.