05/03/2025
WD Blue 1 TB - Single Platter
5.0 Drive:: Amazing Space & Performance at Affordable Price
Western Digital now owns Hitachi GST which is a good thing for technology enthusiasts. Why? Partly because of reliability that WD Hard drives have always been known for and partly because of research which Hitachi has put in last couple of decades in storage sector. The result is this really affordable Single Platter Drive which results in more space per platter due to increased efficiency in storage per sector and high performance. The best part about this drive is its raw performance. If you own a SATA-6 enabled motherboard, you will be able to see this drive performing at best, it almost gave me 205 MBps Write speed and 198 MBps Read speed.
SATA 3 and below motherboards will see a slight drop in performance though it will be pretty decent compared to your last hard drive. The only downside of this drive due to large platter storage is the access rate which neared 18ms, not a significant thing though it can be if you use this hard drive in Servers where constant access is a must.Apart from that, this hard drive also feature a very smart and neat AO firmware which has really good Read/Write algorithms resulting in good control over the sector the drive starts writing and reading. Daily Cut/Copy/Paste tasks, Booting OS, Gaming really improved though they donot touch SSD performance which are far more better. Even while gaming or writing large data onto disk like 20-30 GB of persistent write and read, the drive performed it very quickly which most other large capacity drive take time since the head has to continuously read/write between different sectors, thanks to the new firmware. Also, the drive temperature never exceeded 29C for me which is good. One thing most notable is the noise level that drive attains is almost like the WD Green, barely you can hear it working - To check that I installed my OS onto this drive keeping it out of my case in an ambient environment. I must recommend this drive everyone who is looking for large storage and really good performance.
Pros :: Single Platter - Increases performance, Firmware intelligently manages the optimum speed and read/writes of head and platter (7200 RPM Max), Cool & Quiet.
Cons :: Access speed can be a slight issue if drive is used in server environment, Package only contains drive - No SATA Cable, No drive mount screws.🚨🔗📌📢
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