Western Digital WD1500ADFD: King Raptor

Hard Disk Performance: Everest 2.50 / HD Tach

We are utilizing the Everest Ultimate Edition 2.50 HDD drive benchmarks for this article. We are utilizing their Disk Read Benchmark to track overall read performance on our drives.

The WD1500 leads the other drives in the average read access, random reads, and linear read categories. The Samsung SP2504c makes a surprise showing in the linear read beginning, random read, and buffered read categories by outscoring the WD740GD.

The HD Tach read performance results are consistent with the Everest benchmarks and show the Samsung drive having the top burst rates along with better performance than the Maxtor drive.