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The real meat and potatoes here are in the FC tests. FC-Test was designed by Xbit-Labs to facilitate real world testing of hard drives. It performs 3 major categories of testing in 5 different classes. Read, Write, and Copy tests are performed in Install (414 Files, 575MB Total Size), ISO (3 Files, 1600MB Total Size), MP3 (271 Files, 990MB Total Size), Programs (8504 Files, 1380MB Total Size), and Windows (9006 Files, 1060MB Total Size). The application captures the time it takes to do these 3 tasks in each subset, then calculates the speed in which it was completed. This test has proven to be repeatable and expressive of a drives performance, with the exception of the Install test. This time around I finally decided to omit the install test as it proved very buggy producing results from all drives that were unfathomable.
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