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Game Drive 2TB

Game Drive 2TB
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Effective Speed -35%Effective Speed -35%Average Score -36%Read -31%, Write -7%, 4K Read -51%, 4K Write -121%, Mixed -5%, 4K Mixed -60%, SusWrite 22%Peak Score -13%Read 8%, Write 22%, 4K Read -30%, 4K Write -103%, Mixed 27%, 4K Mixed -54%, SusWrite 41%Value & Sentiment User Rating -14%, Market Share -∞%Nice To Haves -28%DQ Read -23%, DQ Write -51%, DQ Mixed -22%, ADQ Read -78%, ADQ Write -65%, ADQ Mixed -55%, Age 99%, AS-SSD Total -30%

Average Bench: 72.7% (621^st of 1072)

Based on 96 user benchmarks. Model: WD Game Drive

Poor: 59%Average: 72.7% Great: 89%

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Good average bench

The WD Game Drive 2TB averaged 27.2% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 168MB/s

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 28.2MB/s

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Above average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the WD Game Drive 2TB is 30.7%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the WD Game Drive 2TB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 39.6MB/s

Avg. 4K-64Thread Read Speed 183MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 96 samples)

Rank 62172.7%

Min	Avg	Max
249	Read 349	548
306	Write 379	592
262	Mixed 342	537
220	SusWrite 363	546
80.9% 358 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
15.9	4K Read 22.8	33
23.6	4K Write 39.6	60.2
19.7	4K Mixed 28.2	37.9
91.7% 30.2 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
108	DQ Read 183	299
87	DQ Write 175	237
31	DQ Mixed 168	271
129% 175 MB/s

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The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

USA-User, 11 days ago.

724GB free

Firmware: 3083

SusWrite @10s intervals: 280 341 341 340 341 338 MB/s

74% Very good

Write 336

Mixed 319

SusWrite 330

76% 338 MB/s

4K Read 23.3

4K Write 37.3

4K Mixed 28.9

92% 29.8 MB/s

DQ Read 244

DQ Write 220

DQ Mixed 230

173% 231 MB/s

CRI-User, 8 days ago.

1TB free

Firmware: 3083

SusWrite @10s intervals: 308 306 307 309 310 308 MB/s

73.6% Very good

Write 311

Mixed 301

SusWrite 308

72% 319 MB/s

4K Read 27.1

4K Write 36.8

4K Mixed 29.9

99% 31.3 MB/s

DQ Read 248

DQ Write 188

DQ Mixed 212

160% 216 MB/s

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System: Asus Zephyrus S GX531GWR_GX531GWR

CPU
Core i7-9750HIntelBench 73%, 328,182 samples	57x

GPU
RTX 2070 (Mobile Max-Q)NvidiaBench 79%, 10,818 samples	36x
UHD Graphics 630IntelBench 5%, 506,702 samples	21x

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Game Drive 2TBWDBench 73%, 96 samples	1x

RAM
8ATF1G64HZ-2G6E1 Hynix HMA81GS6JJR8N-VK 16GBMicronBench 75%, 595 samples	44x
8ATF1G64HZ-2G6E1 Samsung M471A2K43DB1-CTD 24GBMicronBench 69%, 80 samples	5x
8ATF1G64HZ-2G6E1 859B CT16G4SFD8266.C16FD1 24GBMicronBench 70%, 29 samples	3x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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