Review: Seagate ST380023AS Hard Drive

Benchmarks II

Sandra Benchmark

The Sandra benchmark is less reliable than the HD Tech because it tests a partition rather than the whole drive and as we have seen performance changes depending on where on the drive the partition is located. When testing for the review we ensured that all the test drives had the same sized partition and that it was at the start of the physical disk.

The results show the same story as HD tech, although we are unable to break down the Sandra scores to establish where the Seagate drive falls down.