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IO Meter - 512 KB Random Access

This chart shows the 512 KB random read and write performance of the hard disk drives. The red bars denote write throughput while the blue bars denote read throughput. The hard disk drives in this comparison were arranged according to their total write + read performance.

Top 5 Desktop Drives

Capacity

Read-Write
Average

Difference

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Western Digital VelociRaptor

600 GB

54.93 MB/s

Baseline

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Western Digital VelociRaptor

300 GB

46.40 MB/s

- 15.5%

Lowest Price

Western Digital RE

4 TB

38.21 MB/s

- 30.4%

Lowest Price

Western Digital VelociRaptor

1 TB

38.01 MB/s

- 30.8%

Lowest Price

Western Digital Caviar Black

2 TB

37.08 MB/s

- 32.5%

Lowest Price

Top 5 Mobile Drives

Capacity

Read-Write
Average

Difference

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Western Digital Scorpio Black (BEKT)

500 GB

28.93 MB/s

Baseline

Lowest Price

Western Digital Scorpio Black

320 GB

22.48 MB/s

- 22.3%

Lowest Price

Western Digital Scorpio

320 GB

21.10 MB/s

- 27.1%

Lowest Price

Western Digital Scorpio Black (BPKT)

500 GB

20.14 MB/s

- 30.4%

Lowest Price

Seagate Momentus 5400.4

250 GB

20.04 MB/s

- 30.7%

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Introduction

Introduction
The Hard Disk Drives

Benchmark Details &
Settings

The Testbed
Testing Methodology

Real World Simulations

Business Disk WinBench 99
High-End Disk WinBench 99

 

Max. Surface Temperature

Synthetic Tests

Disk Transfer Rate

 

Platter Profile (Desktop)

 

Platter Profile (Mobile)

 

4 KB Random Access

 

4 KB Sequential Access

 

512 KB Random Access

 

512 KB Sequential Access

Conclusion

Conclusion



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