Western Digital 3TB Caviar Green Hard Drive Review

SiSoftware Sandra 2010

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. Sandra provides most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. In order to test the hard drive, SiSoftware Sandra 2010c was used as part of the test suite. The graphical results that Sandra gives you after the test is completed nicely shows how drives perform over time and where on the drive the performance is seen.

WD 2TB Green READ Performance Testing:

WD 3TB Green READ Performance Testing:

WD 2TB Green WRITE Performance Testing:

WD 3TB Green WRITE Performance Testing:

Benchmark Results: The Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB hard drive had solid performance in Sandra 2010 SP3 and was found to have an average read score of 102MB/s with a write average of 97MB/s. These scores were significantly higher than the 81MB/s read and write averages that we noted on the 2TB drive.