Seagate Exos M 30TB HDD Review

1. Introduction2. Seagate Exos M 30TB3. Testing Methodology4. ATTO Disk Benchmark5. 4K Random Performance6. Throughput7. Workload Scenarios8. UL Solutions PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark9. SPEC Workstation 3.110. Real Life File Testing11. Closing Thoughts12. View All Pages

To test the real-life performance of a drive, we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of drive reading from & writing to a 2TB Koxia Exceria Plus.

118GB Windows 10 backup.
100GB data file.
50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
21GB 8K Movie demos – (11 demos).
4.25GB 3D Printer File Folder – (166 files – 105 @ .STL, 38 @ .FBX, 11 @ .blend, 5 @ .lwo, 4 @ .OBJ, 3@ .3ds).
5.4GB Windows 11 iso .
1.5GB AutoCAD File Folder (80 files – 60 @ .DWG and 20 @.DXF).
640MB Dataset 1 – .csv 1,048,576+ rows.
487MB Dataset 2 – 100,011 files, 8 folders.
578MB Dataset 3 – .csv 1,048.576+ rows.

The 30TB Exos M produced very consistent performance when it came to handling our real-life data transfer tests. It averaged 245.29 when writing the data to disk and 229.21MB/s when reading the data back.

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