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Unexpected result for WDC-500AAKS wih HD tune read Bencmark!!

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theorist   09-28-2009 at 11:10:46 PM
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No one replied..:)
Is it (the result) that strange, or that normal so nobody said anything about it?

 

I think nobody understood what is not normal about the result, I meant the read benchmark avarage result is about 110 MB/s, while WDC5000AAKS's scores About 70-80MB/s In the same test, and VolciRaptor hard drives scores about 100 MB\s, so how did this HDD gave such this result??


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tomcio   10-20-2009 at 12:10:30 PM
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I have two disks WD 500 AAKS , first diskI bought 1,5 year ago had a normal result 75 MB/sek - typical for WD 500AAKS, but the second which i bought a few days ago have similar result to your disk, I not understand it too Probably new 5000 AAKS has one 500GB plate :), old series had 3 plates I think
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6916/wd500aaakshdtune.th.jpg:o
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2874/wd500aaakshdtach.th.jpg:o


Message edited by tomcio on 10-21-2009 at 01:57:53 PM
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buwish   10-20-2009 at 12:59:55 PM
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What I've noticed with HD Tune is that if you run the benchmark a few times on the same drive, it will give you varying results; sometimes quite various. My guess would have to be a firmware revision of sorts WD put out on the drives. Or that model has a tendency to work really well if it is pretty new, i.e. minimal usage. That is interesting though.

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Bronze Storage badge sub mesa   10-20-2009 at 02:22:53 PM
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What's exactly strange about this benchmark shot? It has a dip yes, but all system disks and other disks which have background I/O will have those dips. Since a harddrive can't do two things at once the benchmark is shortly interrupted.

I assume this is a 500GB-platter HDD?

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