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WDC WDS500G2B0A- 500GB

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Release date ≈ Q4 2020.

Average Bench: 86.6% (39th of 1015)

more Based on 599 user benchmarks.  Models: AMD-RAID WDC WDS500G2B0A-, WDC WDS5 00G2B0A-00SM50, WDC WDS500G2B0A-00SM50, WDC WDS 500G2B0A-00S, WDS500G2B0A-00SM50, WDC WDS500G2B0A-00SM, WDC WDS500G2B0A-00SM50, WDC WDS5 00G2B0A, WDC WDS 500G2B0A-00SM50, WDC WDS500G2B0A, WDC WDS500G2B0A-00SS
Poor: 16%Average: 86.6% Great: 173%

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Very good average bench

The Amd-raid WDC WDS500G2B0A- 500GB averaged just 13.4% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the Amd-raid WDC WDS500G2B0A- 500GB near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 5.29MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 9.83MB/s

Terrible consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Amd-raid WDC WDS500G2B0A- 500GB is 158%. This is a particularly wide range which indicates that the Amd-raid WDC WDS500G2B0A- 500GB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 105MB/s
Avg. Sustained Write Speed 122MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 599 samples)
Rank 3986.6%
Min Avg Max
7.64 Read 176 424
17.6 Write 127 338
7.7 Mixed 105 235
22.2 SusWrite 122 296
97.7% 132 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.1 4K Read 9.83 31.2
0 4K Write 4.37 7.9
0.1 4K Mixed 5.29 13.4
1,078% 6.49 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
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System: Lenovo 80DU

CPU
Core i7-4710HQIntelBench 58%, 69,536 samples206x
Core i7-4720HQIntelBench 58%, 80,960 samples160x
Core i5-4210HIntelBench 55%, 12,540 samples29x
GPU
HD 4600 (Mobile 1.15 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 258,091 samples279x
GTX 860MNvidiaBench 16%, 18,736 samples96x
GTX 960MNvidiaBench 16%, 73,363 samples59x
SSD
MZ7TE512HMHP-000 512GBSamsungBench 75%, 3,033 samples48x
LCS-256M6S 2.5 7mm 256GBLiteonitBench 83%, 11,477 samples23x
MZ7TE256HMHP-000L2 256GBSamsungBench 69%, 2,145 samples22x
RAM
M471B1G73DB0-YK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 53%, 30,591 samples114x
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 52%, 34,976 samples74x
RMT3160ME68FAF1600 2x8GBRamaxelBench 52%, 3,672 samples56x
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