However, the price point of Rs 18,500 which gets the cost per GB to around Rs 17.75 is quite high. Western Digital has certainly released an interesting drive which allows one to have a full-blown SSD+HDD dual drive combination inside your laptop. We installed Windows 7 64-bit OS on the SSD part of the dual drive and it gave a startup time of mere 11 secs with no extra software installed.įor the real-life transfer speeds, we transferred a 10GB single file and an 10GB assorted file from the source drive to the WD Black 2 Dual Drive's HDD component.
It simulates operations such as importing pictures, gaming, starting applications and so on. The Secondary Storage test allows you to test drives other than your system drive. It is a collection of workloads that isolates the performance of your PC’s SSD. PC Mark 7 is a complete PC bench-marking solution for Windows 7 having a dedicated Storage test module. It also gives you the option to perform sequential and random read and write tests 4KB, 512KB and 4KB with queue depth of 32 data. We kept it on the default mode which uses random data. Source Drive: Corsair Neutron GTX, 240GB SSDĬonsidering the WD Black dual drive has an SSD and a HDD, we had to perform tests for both the sections and compare them with the regular HDDs and SSDs.Ĭrystal Disk Mark allows you to find out sequential as well as random read and write speeds.
It is not recommended to use the WD Black as a single partition as there are no visible benefits. First preference is SSD, but after its capacity fills up, things are moved to the HDD. You can also combine the two drives into one single partition, but then you have no control over which content goes on HDD or SSD. The WD Black 2 drive shows up as a single drive with two partitions SSD+HDD. To see the 1TB HDD section as well, you will have to install the drivers you have downloaded. When you connect the drive for the first time to your system, you will only see the 120GB SSD component under Disk Management. WD Black installation software is needed to install the 1TB HDD
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