CrystalDiskMark:
CrystalDiskMark tests the speed of the drive by performing various sequential and random read/write operations on the drive. This is done for different file sizes.
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| 50MB – Onboard | 50MB – Rocket 620 | ||
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| 100MB – Onboard | 100MB – Rocket 620 | ||
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| 500MB – Onboard | 500MB – Rocket 620 | ||
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| 1000MB – Onboard | 1000MB – Rocket 620 |
You can see how performance can vary drastically depending on the size of the file being transferred. The Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB drive handles itself quite well. It doesn’t hold up to the performance of a SSD, but it’s not expected to, as that is not the target audience for this kind of drive. It does manage to beat its predecessor in every test, however.
SiSoft Sandra:
SiSoft is a program used to test pretty much everything about a computer. Today we will just be looking at the storage benchmarks.
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| Onboard Read Test | Rocket 620 Read Test |
As we can see, the average read speed is around 96MB/s for both the onboard and the Rocket 620 controller. This is in line with our other tests, although it is interesting that the bundled controller scored as high.
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| Onboard Write Test | Rocket 620 Write Test |
In the write test we see that the onboard controller measures in with 92.1MB/s and the Rocket 620 is 85.13MB/s. This is quite an impressive write speed for a drive with such a low power usage. Western Digital is definitely getting every bit of performance per watt that they can.
Really an amazing high performance green drive with a capacity of about 3TB, which is in it self an amazing thing to read and share, even more to have one in your PC. Thanks for sharing it…..