Western Digital – Velociraptor 600 GB Hard Drive

Enhancements

Here at Techwarelabs we are all about getting the most bang for the buck. This is why I will be discussing the results obtained by short stroking the drive. Using the same method as in the article: Modifying the Seagate 1.5TB Hard Drive: Unleash the Hidden Performance where we short stroke the drive to 450 GB and 300 GB. Below are the results in the same benchmarks as were run on the original capacity.

HD Tune – Read

The read speeds between the two sizes were similar. Better performance was exhibited in the 300 GB by approximately 8 MB/s for average speed, and 20 MB/s minimum speed. This leads to an overall performance gain of approximately 28 MB/s average, and 40 MB/s min from the original size.

Velociraptor Short Stroke 300 GB	Velociraptor Short Stroke 450 GB

HD Tune – Write

There were also significant improvements in the Write benchmark. Velociraptor at 300 GB performed 135.8 MB/s average, and 118 MB/s minimum. The overall improvement from the original size was 30 MB/s minimum and 15 MB/s average.

Velociraptor Short Stroke 300 GB	Velociraptor Short Stroke 450 GB

HD Tune – File Access

The modification to the hard drive would not be evident in this test. This is mainly due to file size. Here the tests are run using the best scenario, meaning that the 64 MB file would be written on the very edge of the disk (where the drive the drive is the fastest). This is demonstrated in the images below, where the benchmarks yielded very similar results despite one capacity being 450 GB and the other 300 GB.

Velociraptor Short Stroke 300 GB	Velociraptor Short Stroke 450 GB

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