Western Digital Black2 Dual Drive Review

Written by Edward Chester

January 13, 2014 | 10:40

Tags: #black #dual-drive #hard-drive #hdd #ssd

Companies: #wd #western-digital

PCMark 7

Website: PCMark 7

PCMark 7's storage benchmark uses SATA traces to emulate specific workloads and apply them to each SSD on test. We've selected the Gaming and Application load tests to highlight here, using the raw results (which discount the idle time within the traces). As some PCMark tests generate the same result regardless of SSD, we feel these speeds are more relevant than PCMark's overall score.

PCMark 7 Secondary Storage Test

Starting Applications Test

  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 250GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • Crucial M500 480GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 480GB
  • WD Black2 Dual Drive SSD
  • SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB
  • OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
  • WD Black2 Dual Drive HDD
    • 66.9
    • 61.0
    • 59.9
    • 58.9
    • 58.1
    • 52.3
    • 51.5
    • 51.0
    • 50.6
    • 50.1
    • 2.3
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  • Speed (MB/sec)

PCMark 7 Secondary Storage Test

Gaming Test

  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 250GB
  • Crucial M500 480GB
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • WD Black2 Dual Drive SSD
  • OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 480GB
  • SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB
  • WD Black2 Dual Drive HDD
    • 17.5
    • 17.5
    • 17.4
    • 17.1
    • 17.0
    • 16.9
    • 16.9
    • 16.4
    • 15.8
    • 15.6
    • 3.8
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MB/sec (higher is better)
  • Speed (MB/sec)

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