Seagate Desktop HDD.15 4TB Review

Futuremark’s PCMark benchmarking suite should need no introduction – it’s been a staple of PC benchmarking for the better half of a decade. PCMark offers a range of tests to gauge every aspect of a computer’s performance and presents it in a simple final result. Thankfully, it also breaks down the overall score with individual subsystem scores (such as Memory, Storage, et cetera) in addition to providing individual test results.

As we’re not too concerned with the performance of the PC as a whole, for our testing here we deselect all default tests and run only the “Secondary Storage” suite, with the hard drive in question as the chosen drive. Tests in this suite range from the loading of applications, running a Windows Defender scan, editing video, gaming and more.

Compared to WD’s Red and Green 2TBs, Seagate’s Desktop HDD.15 sits comfortably in the lead (albeit by a mere ~5% over the Red). Both the Red and Seagate’s drive include 1TB platters, so Seagate’s gain is notable. We’ll see if this trend continues with our further testing.