Over 1,000,000 Hard Drives Benchmarked
PassMark Software has delved into millions of benchmark results that PerformanceTest users have posted to its web site and produced four charts to help compare the relative performance of different hard drive models with storage capacities from gigabyte to terabytes.
Our charts include results from many major hard drive manufacturers, including but (not limited to) Seagate, Western Digital (WDC), Samsung and Crucial. Our data can help you assess the performance of your hard disk drive (HDD) in comparison to similar models, or help you decide whether newer hard drive technologies (such as M2 NVMe drives using the PCIe Gen4 & 5 interfaces) represent good value for your purchasing dollar when it comes to high performing data storage and retrieval.
Last updated on the 23rd of June 2025
Hard Drive Benchmark results (“Baselines”) were gathered from users’ submissions to the PassMark web site as well as from internal testing. PerformanceTest conducts three different tests and then averages the results together to determine the PassMark Disk Mark rating for a system... [ Read the entire article ]
Rarely is a graph completely accurate in what it is representing. There are many factors that can skew the results and make a graph misleading. As such it is necessary to have some background understanding of the data being presented.
In the case of these Hard Drive Benchmarks there are several factors to consider, such as different system setups the Hard Drives are running under and how fragmented the drives file system is.... [ Learn more about the graphs ]
#1 WD BLACK SN8100 4000GB
#2 SHPP51-2000GM
#3 XPG MARS 980 BLADE
#4 WD BLACK SN8100 2000GB
#5 BIWIN X570 PRO 2TB
#6 NVMe PCB01 SED SK hynix 2048GB
#7 Samsung 9100 PRO 4TB SSD
#8 Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB SSD
#9 Samsung SSD 9100 PRO with Heatsink 4TB
#10 Samsung 9100 PRO 1TB SSD
Download and install PerformanceTest.
Start PerformanceTest then from the menu bar select "Tests->Run All Tests".
Once the tests have run select "Baseline->Upload Baseline to Web".
Your results will not appear in the graphs immediately as the graphs are only updated once per day. Additionally, only Hard Drives of which there are at least three samples are included in the graphs.
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