Page 5 : Transfer Rate Range, WinBench Results
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Transfer Rate Range
This chart shows you the range of platter-to-buffer transfer rates from the innermost track to the outermost track. In other words, it shows you the range of disk transfer rates of the hard disk drives (from minimum to maximum).
The 10 TB WD Red NAS drive has an official peak throughput of 210 MB/s, which was confirmed by our tests. In fact, it actually peaked at 217 MB/s. While it was still slightly slower than the 6 TB WD Black, that puts it ahead of most of its competitors.
Both the 8 TB WD Gold and the 10 TB WD Red have 7 platters. The 10 TB WD Red (Lowest Price) use higher density 1.43 GB platters to compensate for the 8 TB WD Gold‘s higher 7200 RPM spindle speed. This proves yet again that HDD performance is not always about the spindle speed… 😉
Business Disk WinBench 99
Even though it’s not optimised for desktop applications, the 10 TB WD Red (WD100EFAX) NAS drive did very well in this benchmark, coming in faster than even the 6 TB WD Black.
| Hard Disk Drive Model | Capacity | Business Disk WinMark 99 |
Difference | Useful Links | |
| Western Digital Red | 10 TB | 32.5 MB/s | Baseline | – | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Black | 6 TB | 26.1 MB/s | – 19.7% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Green | 6 TB | 25.6 MB/s | – 21.2% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Black | 4 TB | 24.0 MB/s | – 26.2% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Red Pro | 4 TB | 23.4 MB/s | – 28.0% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Gold | 8 TB | 23.3 MB/s | – 28.3% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Re | 4 TB | 20.4 MB/s | – 37.2% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Red | 6 TB | 19.4 MB/s | – 40.3% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Red | 4 TB | 17.5 MB/s | – 46.2% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Red | 3 TB | 16.1 MB/s | – 50.5% | Review | Lowest $ |
High-End Disk WinBench 99
The 10 TB WD Red (WD100EFAX) NAS drive was top in this benchmark too, edging out the very fast 6 TB WD Black.
| Hard Disk Drive Model | Capacity | High-End Disk WinMark 99 |
Difference | Useful Links | |
| Western Digital Red | 10 TB | 150 MB/s | Baseline | – | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Black | 6 TB | 143 MB/s | – 4.7% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Green | 6 TB | 140 MB/s | – 6.7% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Black | 4 TB | 138 MB/s | – 8.0% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Red Pro | 4 TB | 137 MB/s | – 8.7% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Gold | 8 TB | 133 MB/s | – 11.3% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Re | 4 TB | 121 MB/s | – 19.3% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Red | 6 TB | 121 MB/s | – 19.3% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Red | 4 TB | 118 MB/s | – 21.3% | Review | Lowest $ |
| Western Digital Red | 3 TB | 107 MB/s | – 24.0% | Review | Lowest $ |
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