Results - Futuremark PCMark 7 (Secondary Storage Suite)

PC Mark 7 Results

PCMark 7 is a benchmarking suite from FutureMark that evaluates the performance of Windows 7 machines. It tests a wide range workloads and aspects of the system ranging from computation, image and video manipulation and storage. We’ll be looking solely at the storage test here.

Although the drives’ scores were all very comparable, the Seagate 600 scored the lowest with 5288 PCMarks. However, this was just 327 PCMarks or 5% less than the top-scoring Samsung SSD 840 Pro. Looking at the breakdown of the scores, we can see that Seagate 600’s performance was actually very competitive and lost out only on very slight margins.