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WD WD40EFRX

Red 4TB (2013)

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Release date: Q3 2013.

Average Bench: 76.5% (102nd of 1015)

more Based on 38,585 user benchmarks.  Models: WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0, WDC WD40 EFRX-68WT0N0, WDC WD40EFRX-60WT0N0, WDC WD40EFRX-68EUZN0, WD40EFRX-68WT0N0, WDC WD40EFRX-67N32N0, WDC WD40EFRX-68W, WDC WD40 EFRX-68N32N0, WDC WD40EFRX-68N32N0, WDC WD40EFRX-68N, WD WD40EFRX-68WT0N0
Poor: 43%Average: 76.5% Great: 102%

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Good average bench

The WD Red 4TB (2013) averaged 23.5% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the WD Red 4TB (2013) near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 0.94MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 2.45MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the WD Red 4TB (2013) is 58.3%. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the WD Red 4TB (2013) performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 81.5MB/s
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 127MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 38,585 samples)
Rank 10276.5%
Min Avg Max
74.4 Read 136 182
69.1 Write 127 168
41.3 Mixed 81.5 107
71.2 SusWrite 130 175
87.2% 119 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.5 4K Read 0.85 1.1
1 4K Write 2.45 3
0.5 4K Mixed 0.94 1.1
186% 1.41 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
2TB free
Firmware: 80.00A80
SusWrite @10s intervals: 127 127 132 130 130 131 MB/s
77.4% Very good
Read 140
Write 120
Mixed 82.8
SusWrite 130
87% 118 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 2.6
4K Mixed 1
188% 1.43 MB/s
347GB free
Firmware: 82.00A82
SusWrite @10s intervals: 105 104 108 108 108 108 MB/s
75.8% Very good
Read 157
Write 139
Mixed 82
SusWrite 107
89% 121 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 2.5
4K Mixed 1
191% 1.43 MB/s
3TB free
Firmware: 82.00A82
SusWrite @10s intervals: 85 88 88 89 89 89 MB/s
74.5% Very good
Read 171
Write 152
Mixed 99.7
SusWrite 88
94% 128 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 2.7
4K Mixed 1
203% 1.57 MB/s
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 37,655,656 HDDs tested.

 Prices

MSRP ≈ $150 @ launch in Sep '13
BHPhotoUS $11020 months
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AmazonUS $1484 years
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Gaming 95%
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Desktop 94%
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Workstation
Workstation 97%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE - $160

CPU
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD  $305Bench 87%, 532,317 samples8,411x
Ryzen 9 3900XAMD  $485Bench 88%, 219,023 samples4,621x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD  $234Bench 84%, 753,232 samples3,456x
GPU
RX 5700-XTAMD  $400Bench 105%, 313,119 samples3,504x
RTX 2070S (Super)Nvidia  $510Bench 118%, 432,191 samples3,450x
RTX 3070Nvidia  $500Bench 153%, 163,391 samples1,439x
SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 284%, 282,296 samples1,569x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $140Bench 303%, 244,236 samples1,434x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $167Bench 323%, 229,960 samples1,229x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $79Bench 86%, 449,592 samples1,433x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $120Bench 83%, 239,246 samples1,151x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBCorsair  $226Bench 90%, 78,884 samples844x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 74% - Very good Total price: $1,024

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Official site www.wdc.com/...

The WD Red family just got bigger...

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Liked (edit your comment) Add link

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Good

10 months ago.

Pretty fast and has lots of capacy

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