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Western Digital Black2 Dual Drive - Don't Call It a Hybrid (Updated with SSHD Performance!)

By Kenny Yeo - 21 Jan 2014
Launch SRP: S$459

Results - Futuremark PCMark 7 (Secondary Storage Suite)

PCMark 7 Results

PCMark 7 is a benchmarking suite from FutureMark that evaluates the performance of Windows 7 machines. It tests a wide range workloads and aspects of the system ranging from computation, image and video manipulation and storage. We’ll be looking solely at the storage test here.

The WD Black2’s SSD drive managed a score of 5121, which, despite being the lowest, is actually quite comparable to the Crucial M500 and Seagate 600. If we look at the detailed breakdown, we can see that it only really fell short on the “Importing Pictures” workload.

The WD Black2's hard disk drive scored 1646 points, which was the highest, leading the second-place Seagate Ultrathin Laptop HDD by a healthy 4.5%.

Update: Interestingly, the hybrid hard disk drive performed quite admirably on PC Mark7, which attempts to simulate real world workloads and tasks. It managed a score of 3287, which was not so far off from the WD Black2's SSD score of 5121. If we were to look at the breakdown of the score and examine the raw speed figures, the hybrid hard disk drive was actually pretty close on a number of occasions. And if we were to compared the hybrid hard disk drive scores to that of other hard disk drives, it was the runaway leader.

SSD Results

 

 

HDD Results

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8.0
  • Performance 7.5
  • Features 8.5
  • Value 7.5
The Good
Innovative two drives in one design
1TB of storage
Easy to setup
The Bad
Lackluster SSD performance
9.5mm thickness won't fit all notebooks
Windows only
Very pricey
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