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Release date: Q3 2013.

Effective Speed 
+54%
Real World Speed
Performance profile from 147,482 user samples
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Best Bench: 112% 2TB free
Worst Bench: 60% 683GB free
Poor: 60% Great: 112%
SPEED RANK: 30th / 1014
2,938 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 76% 931GB free
Worst Bench: 21% 842GB free (System drive)
Poor: 21% Great: 76%
SPEED RANK: 211th / 1014
Effective Speed
Effective HDD Speed 		88.5 % Much faster effective speed.
+54% 		57.6 %
Average Score 
+315%
Read
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 		153 MB/s Faster read speed.
+22% 		125 MB/s
Write
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 		161 MB/s Hugely faster write speed.
+107% 		77.7 MB/s
4K Read
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 		0.95 MB/s 10.4 MB/s Hugely faster random read.
+995%
4K Write
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 		3.04 MB/s 16.8 MB/s Hugely faster random write.
+453%
Mixed
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 		86.7 MB/s 87 MB/s +0%
4K Mixed
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 		0.95 MB/s 10.6 MB/s Insanely faster random mixed IO.
+1,016%
SusWrite
Avg. Sustained Write Speed 		155 MB/s Hugely faster sustained write speed.
+130% 		67.3 MB/s
Peak Score 
+442%
Read
Peak Sequential Read Speed 		194 MB/s Faster peak read speed.
+14% 		170 MB/s
Write
Peak Sequential Write Speed 		207 MB/s Much faster peak write speed.
+70% 		122 MB/s
4K Read
Peak 4K Random Read Speed 		1.1 MB/s 15.7 MB/s Insanely faster peak random read.
+1,327%
4K Write
Peak 4K Random Write Speed 		3.5 MB/s 24.2 MB/s Hugely faster peak random write.
+591%
Mixed
Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed 		105 MB/s 128 MB/s Faster peak mixed IO speed.
+22%
4K Mixed
Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 		1.1 MB/s 15.9 MB/s Insanely faster peak random mixed IO.
+1,345%
SusWrite
Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average 		199 MB/s Hugely faster peak sustained write speed.
+107% 		96 MB/s
Value & Sentiment 
+1,804%
Market Share
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Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days) 		0.66 % Insanely higher market share.
+6,500% 		0.01 %
Value
Value For Money 		73.5 % Hugely better value.
+646% 		9.85 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating 		57 % More popular.
+12% 		51 %
Price
Price (score) 		$48 Much cheaper.
+59% 		$117
Nice To Haves 
+2%
Age
Newest 		126 Months +2% 129 Months
Specifications 
Capacity
Capacity 		2TB 1TB
Conclusion 
Average Bench 88.5%
Average Bench 57.6%
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This is the current version (2013) of Western Digital's best performing, Black, consumer storage drive. A comparison between the 2013 and 2010 versions shows that core real world performance has improved by around 15%. The 38 month old 2010 FAEX Black is also slightly more expensive at the moment, probably because retailers are slowly running out of stock. With average sequential read/write speeds of 150 MB/s and read/write 4k speeds of 0.8/2.9 MB/s the 2013 2TB WD Black has a solid performance profile but it's slightly overpriced. There is better value available amongst other drives in the group test. [Jan '14 HDrivePro]

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The Toshiba MQ01ABD100H SSHD is a 1TB 5,400 RPM HDD with 8GB of NAND flash. The NAND acts as a high speed cache and gives the drive some SSD-like performance characteristics. The cache covers nearly 1% of the total capacity but once exhausted speeds drop to levels that match the MQ01ABD100, the non SSHD version of this drive. Prior to cache exhaustion, the MQ01ABD100H has peak sequential read/write speeds of 172/83 MB/s and peak 4K read/writes of 14.1/24.5 MB/s. These are fantastic 4K figures which approach SSD throughputs but unfortunately the sequential figures are equally unimpressive and leave the drives performance profile severely unbalanced. Overall the MQ01ABD100H scores an effective speed of just 100 MB/s and sits amongst the slower drives. For small file use cases where the majority of IO hits the cache the Toshiba is a superb choice but for most users, it's probably not. [Mar '14 HDrivePro]

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