Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB
Velocipede
Fastest hard drive; 6Gb/s SATA; welcome capacity bump.
Centipede
Occupies awkward performance/capacity middle ground.
600GB VelociRaptor
600GB VelociRaptor
300GB VelociRaptor
Caviar 2TB Black
Controller
6Gb/s SATA
3Gb/s SATA
3Gb/s SATA
3GB/s SATA
HDTune 4.01
Min Read (MB/s)
97.8 97.8 62
68.7
Avg Read (MB/s)
132.6 132.6 99.9
114.2
Max Read (MB/s) 157.8 158.2 121.2
147.8
R.A. Read (ms)
7.1 7.1 7.2
11.7
Burst Read (MB/s) 270.8 201.2
210
197.6
Min Write (MB/s) 95.9 96.4 76.4
68.3
Avg Write (MB/s)
130.2 130.4
100.9
113.4
Max Write (MB/s)
163.4 155.9
121
146.9
R.A. Write (ms)
7.1 7.1
7.1
11.8
Burst Write (MB/s) 270.8 196.4
214.6
203
4KB Read (IOPS) 145 139
145
81
4KB Write (IOPS) 300 321
384
201
Premiere Pro (sec)
285 291
300
299
PCMark Vantage HDD
7,881 7,467
6,042
5,781
Best scores are bolded. All tests performed on an Asus P6X58D Premium
motherboard with a Core i7-X980 CPU @3.33GHz with 6GB DDR3/1600 running
Windows
7 Professional 64-bit. SATA 3Gb/s tests performed using the ICH10R south
bridge; SATA 6Gb/s tests performed using onboard Marvell 9123 controller.
