WD VelociRaptor 1TB 10K RPM SATA III Hard Drive
Test System and SANDRA
Our Test Methodologies: Under each test condition, the Solid State Drives tested here were installed as secondary volumes in our testbed, with a standard spinning hard disk for the OS and benchmark installations. Out testbed's motherboard was updated with the latest BIOS available as of press time and AHCI mode was enabled. The were left blank without partitions wherever possible, unless a test required them to be partitioned and formatted, as was the case with our ATTO, PCMark 7, and CrystalDiskMark benchmark tests. Windows firewall, automatic updates and screen savers were all disabled before testing. In all test runs, we rebooted the system and waited several minutes for drive activity to settle before invoking a test.
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Motherboard - Video Card - Memory - Audio - Hard Drives -
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Hardware Used: Intel Core i7-2600K Asus P8Z6-V Pro (Z68 Chipset, AHCI Enabled) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 4GB Kingston DDR3-1600 Integrated on board WD Raptor 150GB (OS Drive) WD Caviar Green 3TB WD Velociraptor 600GB WD Velociraptor 1TB WD AV-GP 3TB Hitachi Deskstar 3TB Seagate Barracuda 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB |
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Relevant Software: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64 Intel 9.2.0.1030, iRST 10.5.1027 DirectX 11 NVIDIA GeForce 275.33 Benchmarks Used: HD Tune v5 ATTO v2.47 CrystalDiskMark v3.01 x64 PCMark 7 SiSoftware Sandra 2011 |
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Next we ran SiSoft SANDRA, the the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. Here, we used the Physical Disk test suite and provided the results from our comparison SSDs. The benchmarks were run without formatting and read and write performance metrics are detailed below.
The new WD Velociraptor 1TB hard drive decimated all of the other drives we tested in the SiSoft SANDRA physical disk benchmark. Its closest competition here, the Seagate Barracuda 3TB, came close in the read test, but the WD Velociraptor 1TB's write performance left everything else in the dust.
