Seagate NAS HDD 4TB Review

Similar to HD Tune, AIDA64’s built-in disk benchmarker is one of the easiest to run. The developer also keeps up on top of architectural trends so that you feel confident that the algorithms don’t get much better than this. This spreads beyond the storage benchmark, as AIDA64’s system stress-testers is one of the best, if not the best, out there – thanks to it being able to take full advantage of any given CPU architecture.

For our testing, we run the Linear Read and Random Write tests. Because AIDA64 by default automatically chooses a cluster size (which changes at random), we force it to use 64KB for our testing.

Seagate’s NAS HDD continues to shine here, and I admit, I’m rather impressed – the drive continues to give the Desktop HDD a run for its money, but I guess if you suppose the NAS variant is the more expensive of the two, then it might even out.

AIDA agrees with HD Tune on the latency front when talking about the NAS drives, though WD’s Red fell a bit further behind here.