WD
WDWD6001FZWX
Real World Speed
Performance profile from 10,798 user samples
5,351 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 105% 2.5TB free
Worst Bench: 53% 2.5TB free
Poor: 53% Great: 105%
SPEED RANK: 69th / 1015
5,447 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 118% 4.5TB free
Worst Bench: 61% 342GB free
Poor: 61% Great: 118%
SPEED RANK: 16th / 1015
Effective Speed
Effective HDD Speed
81.5 % 91.6 % Faster effective speed.
+12%
Read
Avg. Sequential Read Speed
141 MB/s 152 MB/s Slightly faster read speed.
+8%
Write
Avg. Sequential Write Speed
147 MB/s 197 MB/s Much faster write speed.
+34%
4K Read
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed
2.04 MB/s 4.71 MB/s Hugely faster random read.
+131%
4K Write
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed
4.73 MB/s Much faster random write.
+49%
3.17 MB/s
Mixed
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed
85.3 MB/s 103 MB/s Faster mixed IO speed.
+21%
4K Mixed
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed
1.07 MB/s Slightly faster random mixed IO.
+7%
1 MB/s
SusWrite
Avg. Sustained Write Speed
141 MB/s 165 MB/s Faster sustained write speed.
+17%
Read
Peak Sequential Read Speed
186 MB/s 209 MB/s Faster peak read speed.
+12%
Write
Peak Sequential Write Speed
191 MB/s 246 MB/s Faster peak write speed.
+29%
4K Read
Peak 4K Random Read Speed
2.7 MB/s 7 MB/s Hugely faster peak random read.
+159%
4K Write
Peak 4K Random Write Speed
5.2 MB/s Much faster peak random write.
+49%
3.5 MB/s
Mixed
Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed
104 MB/s 128 MB/s Faster peak mixed IO speed.
+23%
4K Mixed
Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed
1.3 MB/s Faster peak random mixed IO.
+18%
1.1 MB/s
SusWrite
Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average
187 MB/s 217 MB/s Faster peak sustained write speed.
+16%
Market Share
Based on 53,305,054 HDDs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0 % 0.02 % Insanely higher market share.
+∞%
User Rating
UBM User Rating
50 % 55 % Slightly more popular.
+10%
Age
Newest
78+ Months More recent.
+26%
106 Months
Capacity
Capacity
8TB 6TB
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quite fast, quite good IOPS. seq read&write like 130MB/s. Rand. read 4K 1.2MB/s. Rand. write 4K like 4MB/s. Random speed is a few times higher than on my older HDDs. WD Elements seems to be good series of the WD drives. [Jan '20 postcd]

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