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VelociRaptor 1TB

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Release date: Q2 2012.

Average Bench: 94.6% (9th of 1015)

more Based on 8,165 user benchmarks.  Models: WDC WD1000DHTZ-04N21V0, WDC WD10 00DHTZ-11N21V0, WDC WD10 00DHTZ-60N21V0, WDC WD1000DHTZ-11N21, WD1000DHTZ-04N2, WDC WD1000DHTZ-04N21, WDC WD1000DHTZ-60N21, WDC WD10 00DHTZ-04N21V1, WDC WD1000DHTZ-11N21V0, WDC WD10 00DHTZ-04N21V0, WDC WD1000DHTZ-1, WDC WD1000DHTZ-75N21V0, WD 1000, WDC WD1000DHTZ-04RLRV1, WDC WD1000DHTZ-0, WDC WD10 00DHTZ-04N21, WDC WD1000DHTZ-04N21V1, WDC WD1000DHTZ-6, WD1000DHTZ-04N21, WDC WD1000DHTZ-60N21V0

There is no doubt that the 1TB WD Raptor this is one of the fastest mechanical drives you can buy, however ... an SSD offers orders of magnitude better performance. In terms of price, the class leading 1TB Samsung 840 Evo costs around £360 vs. £185 for the Raptor. An economical approach would be to spend £130 on a blazingly fast budget SSD and £50 on a 1TB Seagate 7400.14. You would end up with 1.25TB for £180, the same price as a Raptor. Unless you need a full TB in one physical drive, the combination of SSD+1TB regular fixed drive makes a lot more sense. Even if prices for the Raptor dropped by around 50% it would still make little sense in today's market and with SSD prices continuing to march lower it's just a matter of time before the Raptor once again faces extinction... [Mar '14 HDrivePro]

Poor: 67%Average: 94.6% Great: 117%

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Excellent average bench

The WD VelociRaptor 1TB averaged just 5.4% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the WD VelociRaptor 1TB near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 1.58MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 4.2MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the WD VelociRaptor 1TB is 50.9%. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the WD VelociRaptor 1TB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 106MB/s
Avg. Sustained Write Speed 154MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 8,165 samples)
Rank 994.6%
Min Avg Max
120 Read 175 217
111 Write 159 192
67.5 Mixed 106 135
100 SusWrite 154 196
109% 149 MB/s
Min Avg Max
1.2 4K Read 1.65 1.9
2.29 4K Write 4.2 4.95
1.04 4K Mixed 1.58 1.8
322% 2.48 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
931GB free
Firmware: 04.06A01
SusWrite @10s intervals: 198 196 197 196 197 196 MB/s
117% Outstanding
Read 210
Write 199
Mixed 136
SusWrite 196
137% 185 MB/s
4K Read 1.9
4K Write 4.6
4K Mixed 1.6
342% 2.7 MB/s
467GB free
Firmware: 04.06A01
SusWrite @10s intervals: 147 147 148 147 146 146 MB/s
90% Excellent
Read 166
Write 164
Mixed 111
SusWrite 147
108% 147 MB/s
4K Read 1.7
4K Write 4.8
4K Mixed 1.6
338% 2.7 MB/s
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Gaming
Gaming 68%
Battle cruiser
Desktop
Desktop 87%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 61%
Destroyer

Motherboard: Asrock X99 Taichi

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel  $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples154x
Core i7-6850KIntel  $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples100x
Core i7-5820KIntel  $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples55x
GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia  $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples52x
GTX 1080Nvidia  $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples51x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia  $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples41x
SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples19x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples17x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples17x
RAM
CL15-15-15 D4-2133 2x8GBUnknownBench 68%, 1,169 samples12x
M378A1G43EB1-CPB 4x8GBSamsungBench 78%, 415 samples8x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples8x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 121% - Outstanding Total price: $279

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 Comments

HDrivePro
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1,391

Official site wdc.com/...

Ultra fast, 10,000 RPM...

  • Interface SATA 6 Gb/s
  • Rotational Speed 10,000 RPM (nominal)
  • Buffer Size 64 MB
  • Load/unload Cycles 600,000 minimum
  • Capacity 1 TB
  • Height 26.1 mm
  • Depth 147 mm
  • Width 101.6 mm
  • Weight 0.50 kg
  • Read/Write 5.10 Watts
  • Idle 4.20 Watts
  • Standby 1.10 Watts
  • Sleep 1.10 Watts
Added 11 years ago.
USA-User
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9,840

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

21 months ago.

GBR-User
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5,782

Excellent

6 years ago.

Some parts of this HDD perform outstandingly, while some other parametres have been surpassed by newer WD Black models. Still a very good HDD to use in 2017.

IDN-User
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4,635

Excellent

5 years ago.

Spin way faster than normal mainstream drives but now not worth the price and you can get 1TB NVMe SSD for similar prices. Still excellent nonetheless if you have it.

HDrivePro
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1,391

Outstanding

10 years ago.

Suggestion  ssd.userbenchmark.com/...

Great value for money £130 256GB Samsung 830 SSD

Suggestion  ssd.userbenchmark.com/...

The latest hard-drive 1TB for £50 Seagate Barracuda 7200.14

Yodabest
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541

Good

11 years ago.

This is one of the fastest fixed hard drives you can buy. Despite costing almost 3x as much as a regular 1TB hard drive it is still significantly cheaper, but far less performant, than an SSD.

Review  www.tomshardware.com/...

A great review covering all the basics and explaining exactly where this drive lies relative to both competing regular hard drives and and SSD's.

ColdSpy
Avatar level
330

Average

3 years ago.

One of the fastest spinning HDD that's available on market, while 10k RPM obviously have higher R/W speed compared to other HDD, regular users are advised to opt for SSD or 7.2k RPM HDD instead.

BurntTech
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42

Good

5 years ago.

Great deal for the right price but no reason to get one with SSD drives out now

multicoring
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36

Good

7 years ago.

The last of a breed, 10k drives used to be king back in the hard drive days. Still good as a non-OS/game drive, but SSD are much better deals nowadays, unless you got this for nostalgia like i did =D.

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