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Release date ≈ Q4 2019.

Average Bench: 61.8% (180th of 1015)

Based on 3 user benchmarks.  Model: WDC-WD10EALX-002BAO
Poor: 56%Average: 61.8% Great: 71%

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Above average average bench

The WDC-WD10EALX-002BAO 1TB averaged 38.1% 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 0.83MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 1.07MB/s

Unknown consistency

There are too few samples to reasonably determine how consistently this HDD perfroms. This result should be interpreted with caution.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 71.2MB/s
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 86.3MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 3 samples)
Rank 18061.8%
Min Avg Max
94 Read 110 130
61.2 Write 86.3 111
63.9 Mixed 71.2 75.8
99 SusWrite 105 116
68.7% 93.2 MB/s
Min Avg Max
1 4K Read 1.07 1.2
1.8 4K Write 1.9 2
0.8 4K Mixed 0.83 0.9
172% 1.27 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
931GB free
Firmware: 05.01D05
SusWrite @10s intervals: 116 115 117 117 117 117 MB/s
70.6% Very good
Read 130
Write 111
Mixed 75.8
SusWrite 116
80% 108 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 2
4K Mixed 0.9
179% 1.3 MB/s
527GB free
Firmware: 05.01D05
SusWrite @10s intervals: 93 99 99 101 101 101 MB/s
59.2% Above average
Read 107
Write 86.3
Mixed 74
SusWrite 99
68% 91.6 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 1.9
4K Mixed 0.8
166% 1.23 MB/s
527GB free
Firmware: 05.01D05
SusWrite @10s intervals: 97 100 98 100 101 101 MB/s
55.7% Above average
Read 94
Write 61.2
Mixed 63.9
SusWrite 99.7
59% 79.7 MB/s
4K Read 1.2
4K Write 1.8
4K Mixed 0.8
172% 1.27 MB/s

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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 53,300,274 HDDs tested

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Typical WDC-WD10EALX-002BAO 1TB Builds (Compare 1,836 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 11%
Tree trunk
Desktop
Desktop 76%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 10%
Tree trunk

System: Acer Aspire TC-885

CPU
Core i5-8400Intel  $131Bench 82%, 312,220 samples758x
Core i5-9400Intel  $161Bench 86%, 22,187 samples510x
Core i3-9100Intel  $145Bench 80%, 7,621 samples162x
GPU
UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop Coffee Lake i5 i7)IntelBench 5%, 147,588 samples520x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples165x
GTX 1650Nvidia  $155Bench 43%, 259,091 samples159x
SSD
PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G-1014 512GBWDCBench 168%, 18,999 samples287x
WDC PC SN520 SDA 512GBNvmeBench 169%, 2,949 samples44x
RBUSNS8180DS3128GJ 128GBKingstonBench 57%, 4,156 samples42x
RAM
ACR26D4U9S8ME-8 ACR26D4U9S1KA-4 12GBKingstonBench 61%, 1,808 samples179x
M378A1K43DB2-CTD 1x8GBSamsungBench 43%, 7,517 samples165x
ACR26D4U9S8ME-8 1x8GBKingstonBench 44%, 3,004 samples154x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 101% - Outstanding Total price: $131

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