WD Black 2 Dual-Drive SSD+HDD Hybrid Review

Name: WD Black 2 Dual-Drive SSD+HDD Hybrid Review
Brand: WD

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 12:00 PM EDT

EFD Software's HD Tune is described on the company's web site as such: "HD Tune is a hard disk utility with many functions. It can be used to measure the drive's performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S.M.A.R.T.), securely erase all data and much more." The latest version of the benchmark added temperature statistics and improved support for SSDs, among a few other updates and fixes.

HD Tune v4.61

More Info Here: http://www.hdtune.com

The WD Black 2's SSD trailed the standalone SSDs once again, according to HD Tune. Note, that we were not able to run this test on the HDD portion of the WD Black 2 due to the drive's configuration. (You can't enable the HDD and still have the drive un-partitioned. If you enabled the HDD portion and delete all partitions, it appears as a single 1.12TB drive to the OS).

Tags: Western Digital, Storage, Hybrid, SATA, WD, drive

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Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com