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TESTED: Hitachi HGST Deskstar 6TB NAS Hard Drive — Fastest Yet!

2014-12-24 • SEND FEEDBACK |

Related: hard drive, HGST, Mac Pro, Other World Computing, Photoshop, SSD

The Hitachi HGST Deskstar 6TB NAS hard drive is a superb performer—the fastest ever tested by MPG. About $319.

This drive is incorporated into an OWC Thunderbay 4 solution (at about $2099 for 24TB solution) and also the RAID-5 24/18TB edition (at about $2279).

Sequential read/write performance of Hitachi HGST Deskstar 6TB NAS Hard Drive
MB/sec for 1000 files across the 6TB capacity
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Speed vs transfer size of Hitachi HGST Deskstar 6TB NAS Hard Drive
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