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WDC WD15EARS-00Z 1.5TB

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Release date ≈ Q4 2018.

Average Bench: 48.8% (321st of 1015)

Based on 8 user benchmarks.  Model: AMD-RAID WDC WD15EARS-00Z
Poor: 43%Average: 48.8% Great: 54%

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Below average average bench

The Amd-raid WDC WD15EARS-00Z 1.5TB averaged 51.1% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 0.57MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.79MB/s

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Amd-raid WDC WD15EARS-00Z 1.5TB is just 10.6%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the Amd-raid WDC WD15EARS-00Z 1.5TB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 45MB/s
Avg. Sustained Write Speed 79.1MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 8 samples)
Rank 32148.8%
Min Avg Max
75 Read 90.9 100
68.9 Write 83.7 97.7
22 Mixed 45 73.5
50 SusWrite 79.1 92.3
54.7% 74.7 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.4 4K Read 0.79 1
0.1 4K Write 1.3 2.2
0.2 4K Mixed 0.57 0.8
121% 0.89 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
1TB free
Firmware: 80.0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 87 91 90 92 92 91 MB/s
53.8% Above average
Read 96.8
Write 86.5
Mixed 41
SusWrite 90.5
57% 78.7 MB/s
4K Read 0.9
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.8
154% 1.07 MB/s
1.5TB free
Firmware: 80.0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 85 94 98 99 89 MB/s
51.7% Above average
Read 88.3
Write 71.9
Mixed 28.2
SusWrite 92.3
51% 70.2 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 0.2
4K Mixed 0.2
59% 0.4 MB/s
706GB free
Firmware: 80.0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 81 82 85 84 85 87 MB/s
51.7% Above average
Read 96
Write 91.2
Mixed 60.8
SusWrite 83.9
61% 83 MB/s
4K Read 0.9
4K Write 1.6
4K Mixed 0.6
134% 1.03 MB/s
736GB free
Firmware: 80.0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 84 87 90 90 90 91 MB/s
51.6% Above average
Read 91
Write 81
Mixed 60.5
SusWrite 88.7
59% 80.3 MB/s
4K Read 0.9
4K Write 1.1
4K Mixed 0.7
136% 0.9 MB/s
71GB free
Firmware: 80.0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 82 87 85 87 88 92 MB/s
46.5% Average
Read 75
Write 72
Mixed 46
SusWrite 86.8
51% 69.9 MB/s
4K Read 0.4
4K Write 1.8
4K Mixed 0.6
117% 0.93 MB/s
1.5TB free
Firmware: 80.0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 68 72 70 66 84 78 MB/s
45.9% Average
Read 87.5
Write 95.5
Mixed 22
SusWrite 72.8
50% 69.4 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 0.1
4K Mixed 0.3
64% 0.37 MB/s

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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 53,939,503 HDDs tested

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Gaming 78%
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Desktop 87%
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Workstation 73%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B450 AORUS ELITE

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD  $88Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples2,761x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD  $120Bench 73%, 179,588 samples1,518x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD  $150Bench 76%, 159,077 samples1,056x
GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia  $140Bench 90%, 645,160 samples794x
RTX 3060Nvidia  $282Bench 100%, 447,556 samples587x
RX 580AMD  $131Bench 52%, 360,351 samples561x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $25Bench 66%, 424,288 samples291x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 275%, 495,311 samples239x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples235x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples665x
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBKingstonBench 86%, 239,203 samples575x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $55Bench 85%, 346,786 samples454x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 133% - Outstanding Total price: $293

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