Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Review

Testing
We will be testing this drive out on our Intel X58 test system.  Here are some quick specs…

Processor: Intel i7-965 Extreme
Motherboard: Gigabyte X58A-UD5
Memory: 6GB Crucial Ballistix
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

We will be running the following 4 hard drive benchmarking programs to test the drive.

HDTune Pro (download)
ATTO Disk Benchmark (download)
CrystalDiskMark (download)
Sandra Physical Disks Benchmark (download)

We will be testing both the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 connectivity.  HDTune Pro is one of the most popular hard drive software suites available. It has many different benchmarks and tests built into it.  Keep in mind it is a single-threaded application though.  We ran both the read and write benchmarks.

hdtune

Next up we have ATTO Disk Benchmark that measures transfer rates across specific lengths.

atto

CrystalDiskMark is our next test and ran the sequential read / write test.

crystal

Sandra Physical Disks benchmark is built into SiSoftware’s Sandra software suite. It tests drive performance and gives you a drive score, we ran both the read and write tests.

sandra

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