Western Digital – Velociraptor 600 GB Hard Drive

Crystal Disk Mark – 50 MB

While HD Tune benchmarks were surprising, these Crystal Disk Mark results were even more impressive. The new drive the speeds of the benchmark across almost all categories were improved. The sequential reads and write exhibited speeds of 176 and 143 MB/s speeds which translated to 78% and 40% gains respectively. Furthermore performance gains in the 512 K and 4K block sizes exhibited 90 -100 % improvement.

Velociraptor 600 GB (new)	Velociraptor 300 GB (old)

Crystal Disk Mark – 500 MB

In the 500 MB benchmark, the newer Velociraptor also proved to have significantly better results than its older counterpart. Sequential read and write demonstrated 65% and 54% performance gains. Similar results presented themselves in the 512K and 4K tests. 512 K test resulted in a 60 % read and a 48 % gains. The 4K block size test produced 53% read performance gains and 8% write gains.

Velociraptor 600 GB (new)	Velociraptor 300 GB (old)

Crystal Disk Mark – 1000 MB

The 1000 MB test produced slightly mixed results. While the sequential and 512 K produced results similar to the previous Crystal Disk Mark benchmarks with gains ranging from 30% – 40%. The interesting part, however, came at the 4K block size.  The read performance at the 4K block size amounted to an approximate 30% gain, however, the write performance experienced a 7% loss.

Velociraptor 600 GB (new)	Velociraptor 300 GB (old)

Crystal Disk Mark – 4000 MB

The most notable results of the 400o MB test were in the 4K region. Write speeds exceeded read speeds of the previous   benchmarks by 100%. The write speeds of 4K block also exceed those of previous tests by 100%.

SiSoft Sandra – Physical Disk

SiSoft Sandra physical disk benchmark evaluates the read speeds across an entire drive and displays the average as the result. The benchmark also evaluates the seek times across the entire drive and outputs the average. The average read speed of the drive was reported to 124.854 MB/s with an average seek time of 7.12 ms.

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