WD Se 4TB Enterprise Hard Drive 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.

On account of the fact that the Se series is spec’d similarly to the Re series, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to see such good performance here. 50% of the time, the 4TB Se drive surpasses the 4TB Black enthusiast drive. Against the Re, though, it’s clear that WD serves up some exclusive optimizations there.

Let’s see if these trends continue.