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Release date ≤ Q4 2013.

Effective Speed 
+57%
Real World Speed
Performance profile from 192,359 user samples
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144,544 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 112% 2TB free
Worst Bench: 60% 683GB free
Poor: 60% Great: 112%
SPEED RANK: 30th / 1015
47,815 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 74% 465GB free
Worst Bench: 27% 63GB free
Poor: 27% Great: 74%
SPEED RANK: 233rd / 1015
Effective Speed
Effective HDD Speed 		88.5 % Much faster effective speed.
+57% 		56.4 %
Average Score 
+64%
Read
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 		153 MB/s Much faster read speed.
+54% 		99.5 MB/s
Write
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 		161 MB/s Much faster write speed.
+62% 		99.5 MB/s
4K Read
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 		0.95 MB/s Much faster random read.
+56% 		0.61 MB/s
4K Write
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 		3.04 MB/s Hugely faster random write.
+127% 		1.34 MB/s
Mixed
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 		86.7 MB/s Much faster mixed IO speed.
+61% 		54 MB/s
4K Mixed
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 		0.95 MB/s Much faster random mixed IO.
+30% 		0.73 MB/s
SusWrite
Avg. Sustained Write Speed 		155 MB/s Much faster sustained write speed.
+60% 		97 MB/s
Peak Score 
+61%
Read
Peak Sequential Read Speed 		194 MB/s Much faster peak read speed.
+50% 		129 MB/s
Write
Peak Sequential Write Speed 		207 MB/s Much faster peak write speed.
+58% 		131 MB/s
4K Read
Peak 4K Random Read Speed 		1.1 MB/s Much faster peak random read.
+57% 		0.7 MB/s
4K Write
Peak 4K Random Write Speed 		3.5 MB/s Hugely faster peak random write.
+133% 		1.5 MB/s
Mixed
Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed 		105 MB/s Much faster peak mixed IO speed.
+56% 		67.5 MB/s
4K Mixed
Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 		1.1 MB/s Faster peak random mixed IO.
+22% 		0.9 MB/s
SusWrite
Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average 		199 MB/s Much faster peak sustained write speed.
+49% 		134 MB/s
Value & Sentiment 
+221%
Market Share
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Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days) 		0.48 % Hugely higher market share.
+500% 		0.08 %
Value
Value For Money 		47.2 % Hugely better value.
+394% 		9.55 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating 		56 % More popular.
+12% 		50 %
Price
Price (score) 		$75 $59 Cheaper.
+21%
Nice To Haves 
+3%
Age
Newest 		116 Months 113+ Months +3%
Specifications 
Capacity
Capacity 		2TB 500GB
Conclusion 
Average Bench 88.5%
Average Bench 56.4%
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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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Mine was manufactured in 2010 and used as a system drive for one of my old PCs from 2010 to 2015. After 6 years in 2021 I plugged it into my server setup and it still works perfectly fine. Been using it in my file server since then [Sep '21 LitHoYin]

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