Legit Storage Reviews

Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green and Black Hard Drives

Manufacturer: Western Digital
Product: WD2001FASS
Date: Fri, Sep 18, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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CrystalDiskMark v2.2

CrystalDiskMark is a small HDD benchmark utility for your hard drive that enables you to rapidly measure sequential and random read/write speeds.

WD Caviar Green 2 TB SATA Hard Drive:

CrystalDiskMark v2.2 Benchmark

WD Caviar Black 2 TB SATA Hard Drive:

CrystalDiskMark v2.2 Benchmark

Benchmark Results: CrystalDiskMark v2.2 shows some very big performance differences between the WD Caviar Green and the Caviar Black hard drives when running the 100MB file size test. With 4K file sizes the WD Caviar Black was 87% faster than the WD Caviar Green in Read tests and 30% faster in the write test! 

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Review Index
Page 1 - WD 2TB Caviar Green Versus 2TB Caviar Black
Page 2 - The Test System
Page 3 - HD Tach v3.0.4.0
Page 4 - HD Tune v3.50
Page 5 - HD Tune v3.50 File Benchmark
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2009 SP3
Page 7 - CrystalDiskMark v2.2
Page 8 - ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.34
Page 9 - PCMark Vantage
Page 10 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions