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WD 2TB RE4-GP™ Enterprise SATA Hard Disc

Hard Drive File Copies

Finally a few facts on how the mighty 2TB drive copes with some real world file transfers, file copies and a complete Windows Shadow back-up

Process	Time to Complete 1 X WD 2TB GP	Time to Complete 1 X 2TB RE4 (Red is Faster in All Instances)	Time Saved
Windows Shadow Back-Up 33.3GBs - Operating System (Drive C) to Data Disc (Drive F)	53 minutes 42 Seconds	44 Minutes 37 Seconds	9 Minutes 5 Seconds
6.17GB Data File from Drive C to Data Disc (Drive F)	1 minute 12 Seconds	34 Seconds	38 Seconds
6.17GB Data File from Data Disc (Drive F) to Drive C	1 minute 07 Seconds	46 Seconds	21 Seconds
10.5GB Data Files Transfer from Data Disc (Drive F) to Operating System (Drive C)	1 minute 53 Seconds	32 Seconds	1 Minute 21 Seconds
8GB Data File Transfer by from Data Disc (Drive F) to Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition 1TB (Raid 1 Config)	2 minutes 29 Seconds	1 minute 53 Seconds	36 Seconds

Moving up a gear we pushed the OS drive (nearly ¾ of the drive space) up to 42.6GB with no SSD optimiser (as these are now readily available) having been completed to see how the drives in Raid 1 would cope in Back-Up with this amount of data. The real world results speak for themselves.

Process	Time to Complete 2 X 2TB RE4 Configured to Raid 1
Windows Shadow Back-Up 42.6GBs - Operating System (Drive C) to Data Disc (Drive F)	1 Hour Exactly
6.17GB Data File from Drive C to Data Disc (Drive F)	32 Seconds
6.17GB Data File from Data Disc (Drive F) to Drive C	15 Seconds
6.17GB Data File Copy within Drive F	35 Seconds
10.5GB Data Files Transfer from Data Disc (Drive F) to Operating System (Drive C)	45 Seconds
8GB Data File Transfer by from Data Disc (Drive F) to Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition 1TB (Raid 1 Config)	1 minutes 49 Seconds

Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - Introduction Continued
Page 3 - System Set-Up
Page 4 - Single Drive Results
Page 5 - Raid 1 Results
Page 6 - File Transfer Results
Page 7 - Conclusions and Award

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