FC-Test Results

Website: FC-Test

Our FC-Test benchmark is split into three parts. First is a write test involving the creation of a file pattern similar to common files such as MP3s or large video files. Once created on the drive, we then copy the file pattern from the drive back to a different folder on the same drive producing a combined read/write test. Finally we test the read speed of the drive by performing FC-Test's read test on the files copied.

For our benchmarks, we're using both the MP3 pattern, consisting of two hundred and seventy small files totalling 0.99GB, and the the ISO pattern, consisting of three large files totalling 1.6GB in size. We feel these file patterns represent the most common files people will be frequently copying to and from an drive, and can be interpreted as as close to a real world file transfer test as possible.


Switching to writing a large ISO file pattern doesn't make any difference when it comes to the Raptor's write speeds, with the drive taking just 18 seconds to write 1.6GB of large files - over 2.5 seconds faster than the next best mechanical drive, the Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB and far ahead of all but the X25-E when it comes to the SSDs.


While copy speeds using our MP3 file pattern were a little disappointing the VelociRaptor makes up for it with awesome simultaneous read/write speeds when it comes to larger files. Only the dual drive controller based G.SKill Titan 256GB and Intel X25-E are faster, and both of those drives are either far too small or ludicrously expensive.


Reading larger files also sees the VelociRaptor perform well, although perhaps not as emphatically as in other tests. Reading the file pattern in 13.7 seconds, a full second faster than the Samsung Spinpoint F1 is certainly impressive as far as mechanical drives go, but all of the SSDs are significantly faster, especially the dual drive controller and Intel X25 models which are almost twice as fast as the Raptor.