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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:42 pm 

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Going to email WD about it.Did some reading about this and its the same with alot of other's but nobody has any answers.My black and blue are both new drives with not much on them and defragged.

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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:51 pm 
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Both of mine are quite new also .. I've formatted them also before testing to make sure. Let me know what ya find out Grizz.


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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:25 am 

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Sent off a email to WD.

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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:08 am 

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Just ran HD TACH for fun

WD Blue avg read=98.1

WD Black avg read=78.6

Intel 80GB ssd avg read=231.2

And to think i was happy with the black before i read this forum earlier tonight LOL!

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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:11 am 
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Looks like I'll be buying Blue drives from now on. ;)


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:31 am 
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I found my blue to bench way higher than my black too.

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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:26 pm 

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Here is WD's reply

Dear Dave,

Thank you for contacting Western Digital Customer Service and Support. My name is Ralph B.

I apologize, but we do not support third party programs associated with testing performance of Western Digital hard drives. I can inform you that several independent review websites regularly review and test our hard drives with numerous utilities. I would suggest building a like system outlined by one of these websites and using the described utilities to benchmark the hard drive. These websites include: "Tom's Hardware," "Extreme Tech Weekly," and "Storage Review".

Performance is relative to many factors including, but not limited to how the drive is set up, what function the drive performs, and the data currently on the drive. For more information regarding benchmarking, please see the information in the link below.

Answer Title: Benchmarking programs indicate that my hard drive is performing slower than expected.
Answer Link: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg ... faqid=1431


If you have any further questions, please reply to this email and we will be happy to assist you further.

Sincerely,
Ralph B
Western Digital Service and Support
http://support.wdc.com

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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:46 pm 
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Typical reply and just about what I figured you would get too.


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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:52 pm 
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what gets me is that my results are almost opposite of what the review sites get. my Black performance is their blue performance and their blue performance is my black performance...

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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:00 pm 
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Same here MD .. I wouldn't have know before cuz all I had was 2 blacks then I got the blue and seagate and while transfering files between those 2 drives I noticed the transfer rate was the fastest I had seen. So I decided to do some benchmarks and you see the result in my original post.


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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:04 pm 

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Same here so i was wondering if hd tune and hd tach are reading the drives wrong.

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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:06 pm 

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If these benches are true then the only reason to pay extra for a black over a blue would be the 5 year warranty over the 3year blue's.

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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
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Don't worry guys, just save up for an SSD and all these problems will dissapear!

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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:27 pm 
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Through the luck of drive failures my OS is actually on my smaller BLUE, the Black is just extra storage and VISTA :evil: . Heck even that craptacular 7200.11 Seagate was faster than the black. I think I might go back to Samsung the next time I need a drive.

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 Post subject: Re: Problem with WD 640 gb drive being slow
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Not worth it YET for mass storage but there getting closer.

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