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« on: 2010.03.19, 22:46:51 »
WD-5000AADS
[]CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (5 passes, 50mb, NTFS drive)
Sequential: 120.3MBps READ | 101.4MBps WRITE
512k: 32.26MBps READ | 79.39MBps WRITE
4k: 0.795MBps READ | 0.950MBps WRITE
4k QD32: 1.396MBps READ | 0.915MBps WRITE
I have AHCI Advanced mode turned on in BIOS, NCQ support enabled, Intel Matrix Storage Driver for UDMA support. Also, the 5000AADS is a single platter 500gb drive with 32mb cache, it performs MUCH better than the multi-platter Green drives and the older Green drives with 16mb cache.
Also, the benchmark from version 2.2 was when the drive was relatively empty of data. Now it has much more data, which I believe has lead to the minor degradation in disk performance. However, this drive has performed above and beyond my expectations and I couldn't be happier.