UserBenchmark: WD Black (2013) vs WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0

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14,138 User Benchmarks

Best Bench: 136% 3.5TB free
Worst Bench: 76% 840GB free

Poor: 76% Great: 136%

SPEED RANK: 1^st / 1015

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Best Bench: 100% 3TB free
Worst Bench: 61% 406GB free

Poor: 61% Great: 100%

SPEED RANK: 66^th / 1015


Effective Speed Effective HDD Speed		112 %	Much faster effective speed. +37%		82 %


Read Avg. Sequential Read Speed	195 MB/s	Much faster read speed. +33%	147 MB/s
Write Avg. Sequential Write Speed	200 MB/s	Much faster write speed. +46%	137 MB/s
4K Read Avg. 4K Random Read Speed	1.53 MB/s	Much faster random read. +74%	0.88 MB/s
4K Write Avg. 4K Random Write Speed	6.09 MB/s	Hugely faster random write. +100%	3.05 MB/s
Mixed Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed	94.7 MB/s	Slightly faster mixed IO speed. +7%	88.9 MB/s
4K Mixed Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	1.61 MB/s	Much faster random mixed IO. +63%	0.99 MB/s
SusWrite Avg. Sustained Write Speed	194 MB/s	Much faster sustained write speed. +41%	138 MB/s


Read Peak Sequential Read Speed	239 MB/s	Faster peak read speed. +30%	184 MB/s
Write Peak Sequential Write Speed	241 MB/s	Much faster peak write speed. +47%	164 MB/s
4K Read Peak 4K Random Read Speed	2.46 MB/s	Hugely faster peak random read. +124%	1.1 MB/s
4K Write Peak 4K Random Write Speed	7.9 MB/s	Hugely faster peak random write. +119%	3.6 MB/s
Mixed Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed	112 MB/s	+2%	110 MB/s
4K Mixed Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	1.9 MB/s	Much faster peak random mixed IO. +58%	1.2 MB/s
SusWrite Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average	239 MB/s	Much faster peak sustained write speed. +40%	171 MB/s

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)		0.44 %	Hugely higher market share. +780%		0.05 %
User Rating UBM User Rating		50 %			50 %


Age Newest		74+ Months	Much more recent. +39%		122+ Months


Capacity Capacity			4TB			3TB

Good hard drive, I've been using mine for about 2 years now. I've used it to store videos, games, photos with fairly decent heavy use too. While it can't compare to SSD's speeds in loading games its designed for heavy use such as gaming and does the job nice. ^{[Dec '22 Baconmaster2890]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16