Western Digital VelociRaptor 600 GB Hard Disk Drive Review

DiskSpeed32

Let’s see first the results from DiskSpeed32, which measures performance sequentially reading all sectors from the storage device.

First, let’s take a look at the burst transfer rate results. This result shows the maximum transfer rate between the SATA port on the motherboard and the controller inside the drive.

Here the new VelociRaptor 600 GB achieved the same performance as the “old” 300 GB VelociRaptor, being 13% faster than Caviar Black 1 TB and 37% faster than SiliconEdge Blue SSD.

But the most import result is the average transfer rate. Here the winner was the SiliconEdge Blue SSD, which was 11% faster than VelociRaptor 600 GB. But the good news is that the new 600 GB VelociRaptor is 30% faster than the “old” 300 GB model. It was also 50% faster than a regular 1 TB hard drive (Caviar Black), which is quite impressive.

On the maximum transfer rate results, VelociRaptor 600 GB was the fastest drive, being 19% faster than the 128 GB SSD we included in our comparison, 39% faster than a standard SATA-300 hard disk drive (Cavi
ar Black 1 TB) and 45% faster than VelociRaptor 300 GB.

On the minimum transfer rate results, the SSD was the champion, and this result explains why this device achieved the highest average transfer rate: it was 173% faster than VelociRaptor 600 GB. Both the new and the “old” VelociRaptor models achieve the same performance level, with the drive being reviewed achieving a performance 17% higher than a regular 1 TB hard drive here.