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WDWD2003FZEX
Samsung

Release date: Q4 2013.

Release date ≤ Q4 2013.

Real World Speed
Performance profile from 149,375 user samples
144,544 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 112% 2TB free
Worst Bench: 60% 683GB free
Poor: 60% Great: 112%
SPEED RANK: 30th / 1015
4,831 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 47% 413GB free
Worst Bench: 12% 60GB free (System drive)
Poor: 12% Great: 47%
SPEED RANK: 631st / 1015
Effective Speed
Effective HDD Speed
88.5 % Hugely faster effective speed.
+163%
33.7 %
Read
Avg. Sequential Read Speed
153 MB/s Hugely faster read speed.
+152%
60.7 MB/s
Write
Avg. Sequential Write Speed
161 MB/s Hugely faster write speed.
+225%
49.5 MB/s
4K Read
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed
0.95 MB/s Hugely faster random read.
+121%
0.43 MB/s
4K Write
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed
3.04 MB/s Hugely faster random write.
+104%
1.49 MB/s
Mixed
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed
86.7 MB/s Hugely faster mixed IO speed.
+111%
41.1 MB/s
4K Mixed
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed
0.95 MB/s Much faster random mixed IO.
+51%
0.63 MB/s
SusWrite
Avg. Sustained Write Speed
155 MB/s Hugely faster sustained write speed.
+175%
56.4 MB/s
Read
Peak Sequential Read Speed
194 MB/s Hugely faster peak read speed.
+135%
82.7 MB/s
Write
Peak Sequential Write Speed
207 MB/s Hugely faster peak write speed.
+161%
79.2 MB/s
4K Read
Peak 4K Random Read Speed
1.1 MB/s Hugely faster peak random read.
+120%
0.5 MB/s
4K Write
Peak 4K Random Write Speed
3.5 MB/s Hugely faster peak random write.
+84%
1.9 MB/s
Mixed
Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed
105 MB/s Hugely faster peak mixed IO speed.
+104%
51.5 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 Hugely faster peak sustained write speed.
+144%
81.4 MB/s
Market Share
Based on 53,831,803 HDDs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.62 % Insanely higher market share.
+6,100%
0.01 %
Value
Value For Money
59 % Insanely better value.
+1,651%
3.37 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating
57 % More popular.
+14%
50 %
Price
Price (score)
$60 $50 Cheaper.
+17%
Age
Newest
132 Months 129+ Months +2%
Capacity
Capacity
2TB 250GB

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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