Amazing WD5000BEVT benchmark results.

I found these benchmarks on a dutch website. Looks like WD has made some changes to the WD5000BEVT. Impressive performance for a 5400rpm drive. It's likely the improvement comes from using higher density platters, but still it's remarkable because it's way faster than WD6400BEVT. Going by just the throughput it looks almost like it's using one 500GB platter. But I don't think those are made yet.



For comparison:


http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...5000bevt-500gb-2-5-hdd-review-benchmarks.html

Edit: He did run the benchmarks on a desktop. Still impressive though.

Production date is 28 September 2010.

 

Yeah I was about to say he was running it on desktop motherboard. Not bad for a 5400 rpm drive

 

This is a WD5000BEKT on a desktop:

 

that is faster than my momentus xt?

 

The production date is 28 September 2010.

yeah if we ignore the cache, the throughput on the WD5000BEVT is faster than WD5000BEKT, Hitachi 7K500 or Momentus XT.

How did WD do this?

 

Well its weird its actually an exact tie its 82.7


access time i have 1.3 ms

 

You're comparing to WD5000BEKT now.

The WD5000BEVT on top gets 88 MB/sec.

 

Phil, knowing he ran this on a desktop platform and most likely without an O/S Installed, these don't look so impressive to me.

See:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...chi-hts725050a9a364-aka-7k500-benchmarks.html


My 7K500 above with a full Win7x64u install and around 60GB of software/apps/utilities and MSE A/V still manages to equal or surpass the above numbers.

I'm sure that they've improved the BEVT - but nowhere close to what the benchmarks show (in real world use).

 

WD5000BEVT - 21 June 2009

Benchmark on desktop:


No write test, it wouldnt let me do it for some reason. Results are very similar to Johns '08 review.

It seems WD has revised the scorpio blue for more performance this year.

 

a 30% gain in raw speed ? that doesn't sound convincing.

 

Check the WD5000BEKT 7200rpm scores from Legitreviews. They were run on a similar desktop, without data on it. The WD5000BEVT beats it.

The 5400rpm WD5000BEVT beats your 7K500 in throughput AND acces times

Of course I didn't say it will beat 7200rpm drives in real world performance. No one has measured that yet. I just said the scores look amazing.

 

Well, just keep in mind also that we're comparing across 3 different versions of HDTune - let alone different (unknown?) testing conditions.

I don't mind that the 7K500 has been (might be?) bettered - it is over a year old now.

Could you ask that Dutch user to maybe run CDM copy tests on that drive? Let's see if it equals or surpasses anything there.

 

Phil, from what I can see the wd5000bevt-00scst0 seems to be a 7200RPM drive, what information do you have that says 5400RPM?

EDIT: Sorry my bad, take that back. It was a poor translation which I think meant to say it was a new batch of 5400 with the performance close to 7200.

http://www.sd001.com/1104587p1p1

something strange going on with url's !

 

BEVT is usually the Blue line but I am with you that the number seems to be inline with the Black line, and why I said it is not very convincing that they can pull a trick to make a 5400rpm drive to be suddenly 30% or so faster. That is very difficult to do, 10-15% may be but 30 ?

 

What does it having been run on a desktop have to do with anything?

 

Well desktops usually have better performing chipsets/controllers but I think you are right, HDTune doesn't seem to improve significant on desktops.

It is indeed very strange.

 

I am wondering if it is just accidentally(or deliberately) loading a Blue line firmware onto a Black line hardware. That is, it is actually spinning @ 7200 rpm.

I would do a side by side noise/vibration level comparison if I have those drives .

 

wow..recent hdd performance so gd.

btw wat is the area density for this hdd?

i guess the drive is advanced format..

 

It is not advanced format. That would be WD5000BPVT.

 

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Someone has the drive in his signature but as 7200rpm.

 

Did he just test multiple Scorpio Blues or just 1? Or maybe it's just a batch that are uber fast cause I've tested a couple of them here, not exactly the fastest drive but we are selling it for 60 bucks for a 500 GB..

 

The key is to find another -00SCST00; although it's a very unusual suffix for a WD drive.

Western Digital does continuously improve drives though, there are sometimes significant improvements in revisions. I've seen it in testing Scorpio Black's.

 

yeah the code needs to be 00SCST00 and the production September 2010 or later.

 

chimpanzee,

no firmware will change a HD from 5400RPM to 7200RPM. The hardware is strictly responsible for that.

 

That was what I meant. I am wondering if it is a 7200rpm hardware with a firmware that said 'WD5000BEVT', afterall it is just a code returned from the firmware. It is quite possible to change it to 'CHIMPANZEE' if wanted

 

Ah, okay.

That makes sense now.

If WD is paying attention to this thread - you may have given them an idea of naming their future firmware/model lines - after primates!

 

Ahh, the new Western Digital Rowan Williams and Desmond Tutu models

If (and I'm a bit sceptical) these results are correct I wonder what benchmarks a new WD5000BEKT might produce?

 

Any news on this? Has anyone been able to properly test a WD5000BEVT-00SCST0?

BTW, sorry for the necro, but I think it's important