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RedTomato

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Mar 4, 2005
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I brought a 1TB SSHD quite cheaply off someone. It's a 2.5" Seagate Firecuda 1TB HDD with 8GB SSHD cache. This model:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-ST1000LX015-FireCuda-Internal-Factor/dp/B01LXNUKKW

Putting it in a USB3 enclosure and running Black Magic on it returns around 130MB/s. That's fine, but I want to test the 8GB cache speed. How do I do that?

My MBA internal SSD tests at about 400MB/s so the capacity is there. Online reviews of the SSHD mention the cache runs at about 400MB/s too so that's what I'm hoping to see.

To be fair, the seller warned the SSHD / cache could be broken, not sure if that's possible without having the whole SSHD be broken.
 
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