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WD Scorpio Black 320GB SATA Hard Drive Review

Manufacturer: Western Digital
Product: WD3200BJKT
Date: Tue, Apr 21, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.34

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.

ATTO Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The WD Scorpio Black 320GB hard drive was able to reach ~90MBps on the read test and ~90MBps on the write tests. 

ATTO Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The I/O comparison benchmark showed pretty much the same results as the WD Scorpio Black 320GB hard drive was able to reach ~90MBps on the read test and ~90MBps on the write tests.

ATTO Benchmark Results

4MB Files Test Comparison Chart - Overlapped I/O: The WD Scorpio Black 320GB hard drive did well in ATTO, but was once again slightly slower than the Seagate Momentus 7200.3 320GB hard drive.

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Review Index
Page 1 - The WD Scorpio Black 320GB Hard Drive
Page 2 - HD Tach v3.0.4.0
Page 3 - HD Tune v3.50
Page 4 - HD Tune v3.50 - Random Access
Page 5 - ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.34
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2009 SP3
Page 7 - CrystalDiskMark v2.2
Page 8 - Everest Disk Benchmark
Page 9 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions