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WD2500AVVS-61L2B0 250GB

WD2500AVVS-61L2B0 250GB
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Effective Speed -230%Effective Speed -230%Average Score -138%Read -218%, Write -185%, 4K Read -119%, 4K Write -18%, Mixed -133%, 4K Mixed -41%, SusWrite -247%Peak Score -127%Read -214%, Write -191%, 4K Read -107%, 4K Write -12%, Mixed -124%, 4K Mixed -25%, SusWrite -219%Value & Sentiment User Rating -19%, Market Share -∞%Nice To Haves +7% Age 7%

Barracuda 7200.14 1TB

Black 1TB (2013)

Barracuda 4TB (2016)

Black 2TB (2013)

Barracuda 7200.14 3TB

Average Bench: 26.6% (826^th of 1015)

Based on 2,518 user benchmarks. Models: WDC WD2500AVVS-61L2B0, WDC WD2500AVVS-00L2B, WDC WD2500AVVS-73L2B, WDC WD2500AVVS-63L2B0, WDC WD2500AVVS-73M8B, WDC WD25 00AVVS-61L2B, WDC WD2500AVVS-98L2B0, WDC WD2500AVVS-63M8B, WDC WD25 00AVVS-00L2B, WD2500AVVS-63M8B0, WDC WD25 00AVVS-98L2B0, WDC WD2500AVVS-63L2B, WDC WD25 00AVVS-63L2B, WDC WD25 00AVVS-73M8B, WDC WD2500AVVS-62L2B0, WDC WD25 00AVVS-73L2B, WDC WD25 00AVVS-98L2B, WDC WD2500AVVS-73M8B0, WDC WD25 00AVVS-14L2B, WDC WD25 00AVVS-00L2B0, WDC WD2500AVVS-00L2B0, WDC WD2500AVVS-14L2B0, WDC WD2500AVVS-52L2B0, WDC WD2500AVVS-7, WDC WD2500AVVS-6, WDC WD25 00AVVS-62L2B, WDC WD2500AVVS-63M8B0, WDC WD2500AVVS-61L2B, WDC WD2500AVVS-0, WDC WD25 00AVVS-73M8B0, WDC WD25 00AVVS-63L2B0, WDC WD2500AVVS-56L2B0, WDC WD2500AVVS-73L2B0

Poor: 14%Average: 26.6% Great: 35%

Popular builds with this HDD

Very poor average bench

The WD WD2500AVVS-61L2B0 250GB averaged 73.4% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 0.59MB/s

Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 1.68MB/s

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Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the WD WD2500AVVS-61L2B0 250GB is 21.6%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the WD WD2500AVVS-61L2B0 250GB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 34MB/s

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 43.4MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 2,518 samples)

Rank 82626.6%

Min	Avg	Max
24	Read 48.8	63.3
20.6	Write 47.8	62
17.4	Mixed 34	41.8
15.8	SusWrite 43.4	61.1
32.1% 43.5 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
0.2	4K Read 0.39	0.5
0.6	4K Write 1.68	2.2
0.28	4K Mixed 0.59	0.8
113% 0.89 MB/s

User Benchmarks

Bench

Sequential

Random 4k

Deep queue 4k

The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

IND-User, 13 days ago.

222GB free

Firmware: 01.03A01

SusWrite @10s intervals: 57 58 59 58 58 57 MB/s

33.4% Below average

Write 52.2

Mixed 37.2

SusWrite 58

38% 51.3 MB/s

4K Read 0.5

4K Write 1.9

4K Mixed 0.5

112% 0.97 MB/s

TUR-User, 1 month ago.

20GB free

Firmware: 01.03A01

SusWrite @10s intervals: 55 56 57 56 56 57 MB/s

31.2% Below average

Write 31

Mixed 25.5

SusWrite 56.2

30% 41.2 MB/s

4K Read 0.7

4K Write 0.9

4K Mixed 0.4

90% 0.67 MB/s

KEN-User, 1 month ago.

74GB free

Firmware: 01.03A01

SusWrite @10s intervals: 56 54 54 55 55 55 MB/s

31.1% Below average

Write 50.4

Mixed 36.4

SusWrite 54.9

36% 48.7 MB/s

4K Read 0.4

4K Write 1.8

4K Mixed 0.6

117% 0.93 MB/s

TUR-User, 13 days ago.

74GB free

Firmware: 01.03A01

SusWrite @10s intervals: 42 46 46 47 46 47 MB/s

28.5% Poor

Write 43

Mixed 33.5

SusWrite 45.6

32% 43.9 MB/s

4K Read 0.5

4K Write 1.6

4K Mixed 0.6

117% 0.9 MB/s

PHL-User, 6 days ago.

76GB free (System drive)

Firmware: 01.03A01

SusWrite @10s intervals: 45 45 41 40 46 43 MB/s

28.1% Poor

Write 52.5

Mixed 36.8

SusWrite 43.2

34% 46.8 MB/s

4K Read 0.4

4K Write 1.6

4K Mixed 0.6

113% 0.87 MB/s

GBR-User, 12 days ago.

13GB free

Firmware: 01.03A01

SusWrite @10s intervals: 3.9 10 12 15 45 44 MB/s

21.3% Poor

Write 51.1

Mixed 37.1

SusWrite 21.6

30% 40.5 MB/s

4K Read 0.4

4K Write 1.7

4K Mixed 0.7

126% 0.93 MB/s

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 60%

Gunboat

Workstation 7%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Intel H61

CPU
Core i5-3470Intel $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples	1,978x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	1,002x
Core i5-2400Intel $250Bench 61%, 166,255 samples	990x

GPU
HD 2500 (Desktop 1.05 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 146,665 samples	2,016x
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	1,354x
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	713x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	487x
256GB 256GBSSDBench 77%, 9,229 samples	270x
128GB 128GBSSDBench 65%, 7,332 samples	265x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	608x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	587x
1x4GBUnknownBench 28%, 154,807 samples	242x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $87

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WD2500AVVS-61L2B0 250GB