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Best Bench: 85% 1.5TB free
Worst Bench: 38% 255GB free (System drive)

Poor: 38% Great: 85%

SPEED RANK: 169^th / 1015

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Best Bench: 67% 1.5TB free
Worst Bench: 31% 607GB free (System drive)

Poor: 31% Great: 67%

SPEED RANK: 289^th / 1015


Effective Speed Effective HDD Speed		64 %	Faster effective speed. +26%		50.9 %


Read Avg. Sequential Read Speed	115 MB/s	Faster read speed. +27%	90.5 MB/s
Write Avg. Sequential Write Speed	109 MB/s	Faster write speed. +28%	85 MB/s
4K Read Avg. 4K Random Read Speed	0.9 MB/s	Faster random read. +20%	0.75 MB/s
4K Write Avg. 4K Random Write Speed	2.32 MB/s	Much faster random write. +42%	1.63 MB/s
Mixed Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed	80.2 MB/s	Faster mixed IO speed. +20%	66.7 MB/s
4K Mixed Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	0.84 MB/s	Much faster random mixed IO. +38%	0.61 MB/s
SusWrite Avg. Sustained Write Speed	108 MB/s	Faster sustained write speed. +25%	86.6 MB/s


Read Peak Sequential Read Speed	153 MB/s	Faster peak read speed. +24%	123 MB/s
Write Peak Sequential Write Speed	143 MB/s	Faster peak write speed. +27%	113 MB/s
4K Read Peak 4K Random Read Speed	1.1 MB/s	Faster peak random read. +10%	1 MB/s
4K Write Peak 4K Random Write Speed	3 MB/s	Faster peak random write. +25%	2.4 MB/s
Mixed Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed	114 MB/s	Faster peak mixed IO speed. +16%	98.7 MB/s
4K Mixed Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	1 MB/s	Faster peak random mixed IO. +25%	0.8 MB/s
SusWrite Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average	147 MB/s	Faster peak sustained write speed. +27%	116 MB/s

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.51 %		0.81 %	Much higher market share. +59%
Value Value For Money	20 %		29.1 %	Much better value. +45%
User Rating UBM User Rating	50 %		52 %	+4%
Price Price (score)	$64	Slightly cheaper. +9%	$70


Age Newest		124+ Months	More recent. +21%		156 Months


Capacity Capacity			1TB			2TB

The Western Digital Green (EARX) was released approximately three years ago and proved to be an extremely popular hard drive. This drive has been benchmarked by our users far more than most, currently 118 samples, so we have a relatively large set of performance data from which we can infer robust performance characteristics. With sequential read/write Lab speeds hitting the 150 MB/s mark, and more importantly, average read/write UserBenchMark (UBM) figures of 125/117 MB/s the 2011 WD Green is no longer able to compete with the newer and in many cases larger platter (1TB) drives of today. Looking at a direct comparison between the EARX and, its direct successor, the EZRX shows that the newer 2012 EZRX outperforms by around 37% in real world tests and 18% in peak Lab tests. This additional performance comes at no extra cost and makes the newer EZRX a far better choice. ^{[Jan '14 HDrivePro]}

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