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 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.




Moving into our real world testing and the increased data density of the Samsung F1's triple 334GB drive platters clearly has a very visible effect, annihilating the other drives we've tested in both the MP3 file pattern write and copy tests with 1.3 second advantages over the competing Seagate 1TB in both. In our read test the Samsung F1 also excels, and while predictably outperformed by the Solid State Drives, is almost a full second faster than the competing Seagate 1TB.