Performance and Testing
Drobo 5Dt NAS
Internal SSD
WD Passport – External USB 3.0 Hard Drive
Buffalo External Thunderbolt Hard Drive
In Comparison
| Measured in Mb/Sec | Drobo 5Dt | Macbook Air Internal SSD |
Buffalo External Thunderbolt Hard Drive |
WD Passport External USB3.0 |
|
| Disk Mark v1.15 | Read | 833 | 823 | 96 | 50 |
| Write | 226 | 237 | 104 | 53 | |
| BlackMagic Disk Speed Test | Read | 314.3 | 531.2 | 91.1 | 54 |
| Write | 239.6 | 339.2 | 89.6 | 54 | |
DiskMark v1.15
You can see the from results of our Disk Mark test, the Drobo 5Dt is performing amazingly well, with a read speed of 833Mb/sec and write speed of 226Mb/sec. That’s just as fast as the internal SSD on our Mabcook Air.
BlackMagic Disk Speed Test
For the BlackMagic Disk Speed Test, we selected the 5GB read/write stress test. After several runs … we managed to get a read speed of 314.3Mb/sec and a write speed of 239.6Mb/sec. This falls in line with what we expected.
