Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB Hard Drive Review

SIS Sandra

This test was run with the removable storage benchmark in Sandra XII Standard. All of the scores are calculated in operations per second and have been averaged out from the scores of 4 test runs.


Now this is unexpected! It’s obvious that SIS Sandra likes this drive…but to actually beat the VRaptor’s numbers is impressive to say the least! When you look closely and see it's with in spitting distance of a SSD….WOW is all we can say.

ATTO Disk Benchmark

The ATTO disk benchmark tests the drives read and write speeds using gradually larger size files. For these tests, the ATTO program was set to run from its smallest to largest value (.5KB to 8192KB) and the total length was set to 256MB. The test program then spits out an extrapolated performance figure in megabytes per second.

Read


In the read side of things this bad boy is only slightly slower than the VRaptor and it easily beats its little brother the WD 640GB Black. You've got to love sibling rivalry…especially when it results in kick arse performance and such reasonable prices.


Write


On the write side of things Western Digital's Black Edition 1TB actually beats the VRaptor in certain size chunks; however it does quickly start to loose to the VRaptor…but not by all that much. On the other hand it once again beats its little brother.