HD Tune:
We used HD Tune to test many facets of the drive. By running the AAM test, we can tell the seek time of the drive. Below we see that it comes out to 13.9ms. This is way different than the results we got with the previous benchmark (which said 110.0ms). By using the info tab, we see that the drive is a 1TB drive, formatted as NTFS, and has every supported feature.
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| HD Tune AAM test | HD Tune Info |
We continue testing with the hard drive benchmark and file benchmark.
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| HD Tune hard drive benchmark | HD Tune file benchmark |
We see that the minimum rate is 46.2MB/sec and the max is 94.6MB/sec, giving us an average of 76.5MB/sec. We’re told our access time (or seek time) is 14.1ms. This number falls close to the 13.9ms in the AAM test above. The 76.5MB/sec average sounds a lot nicer than the 50.1MB/sec average found on the previous page. We need to keep an eye on these numbers, because it seems like Datamarck has given us a false reading. This will come into play later.
Since we used the Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB drive as a secondary instead of the primary, we were able to use the write test as well. The results were as follows.
We see that our max is 94.5MB/sec and our min is 45.4MB/sec, with our average being 75.0MB/sec. We see a huge performance drop towards the final ~30% of the test, which is what skews our results.
Performance Test 6.1:
We see from the Performance Test 6.1 results that the sequential (max) read speed is 92.2MB/sec. This sounds about right compared with our results above. The sequential write (max) speed is 91.5MB/sec, which is comparable to our write speed above. Finally, we see that the DiskMark rating is 682.8, and the PassMark rating is 136.6 for this drive.
Other information about this hdd can be found on this page.
Take a look at it!
Big and green and not the hulk.