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Western Digital 3TB Caviar Green Hard Drive Review

Manufacturer: Western Digital
Product: WD30EZRSDTL
Date: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 - 07:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.46

ATTO is one of the oldest hard drive benchmarks that is still used today. ATTO measures transfers across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and places the data into graphs that you can easily interpret. The test was run with the default runs of 0.5kb through 8192kb transfer sizes with the total length being 256mb.

Western Digital 2TB Green:

ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.46 Results

Western Digital 3TB Green:

ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.46 Results

Benchmark Results:  The WD Caviar Green 3TB drive was able to reach 128MBps on the read test and 107MBps on the write test in the Overlapped I/O benchmark.  The WD Caviar Green 2TB drive didn't give up, though, as it put down respectable scores of 112MB/s read and 110MB/s write!

ATTO Benchmark Results

4MB Files Test Comparison Chart - Overlapped I/O: The Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB drive with the four 750GB platters was just slightly faster than the WD VelociRaptor 300GB drive in the read test! Not bad performance from a 'green' drive that is aimed at large storage and not necessarily performance.

Next Page - PCMark Vantage


Review Index
Page 1 - The World's First 3TB Hard Drive - WD Caviar Green
Page 2 - Breaking the 2.19TB Hard Drive Barrier
Page 3 - The Test System
Page 4 - HD Tune v4.60
Page 5 - HD Tune v4.60 - Random Access
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2010
Page 7 - HD Tach v3.0.4.0
Page 8 - CrystalDiskMark v3.0
Page 9 - ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.46
Page 10 - PCMark Vantage
Page 11 - Free Capacity and Final Thoughts