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

SPECworkstation 3.1 is a specialised test designed for benchmarking the key aspects of workstation performance; it uses over 30 workloads, containing nearly 140 tests to test CPU, graphics, I/O, and memory bandwidth. The workloads fall into seven categories;
Media and Entertainment – 3D animation, rendering
Product Development – CAD/CAM/CAE
Life Sciences – medical, molecular
Energy – oil and gas
Financial Services,
General Operations
GPU Compute.

We use the WPCstorage section of the benchmark to test drives, which uses fifteen separate tests.

The WPCstorage workload is designed to benchmark the performance of storage devices by replaying
captured traces from various applications. This workload measures key metrics such as read and write
rates, IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second), and overall IO (Input/Output) performance.

We've not used this test before on an HDD drive, but to give some sort of an idea of how the 30TB Seagate Exos M performs, a Gen 3 U.2 based SSD (Kingston (DC1500M 3.84TB) produces an Energy score of 3.81 and a General Operations score of 4.48.

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