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5000AAKS Externa 500GB

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Release date ≈ Q4 2014.

Average Bench: 16% (300th of 639)

Based on 26 user benchmarks.  Device: VID null PID null Model: WD 5000AAKS Externa
Poor: 12%Average: 16% Great: 18%

Terrible average bench

The WD 5000AAKS Externa 500GB averaged 83.9% 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 Random Write Speed 1.69MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 0.58MB/s

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the WD 5000AAKS Externa 500GB is just 6.46%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the WD 5000AAKS Externa 500GB performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.54MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 28.9MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 26 samples)
Rank 30016%
Min Avg Max
12.2 Read 28.9 32.8
19.4 Write 29.1 37.5
14.3 Mixed 23.9 30.7
19.4 SusWrite 30.2 32.5
38.2% 28 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.2 4K Read 0.54 0.7
0.99 4K Write 1.69 2.2
0 4K Mixed 0.58 0.9
79.3% 0.94 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest USB (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
451GB free, PID null
SusWrite @10s intervals: 30 33 33 34 31 30 MB/s
17.4% Very poor
Read 30.9
Write 32.2
Mixed 26.2
SusWrite 31.7
41% 30.2 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 1.9
4K Mixed 0.8
94% 1.1 MB/s
451GB free, PID null
SusWrite @10s intervals: 29 33 33 33 33 33 MB/s
16.9% Very poor
Read 28.8
Write 31.9
Mixed 26.4
SusWrite 32.3
41% 29.8 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 1.8
4K Mixed 0.9
94% 1.1 MB/s
69GB free, PID null
SusWrite @10s intervals: 19 20 19 19 19 20 MB/s
10.4% Very poor
Read 12.2
Write 19.4
Mixed 14.3
SusWrite 19.4
23% 16.3 MB/s
4K Read 0.5
4K Write 1.4
4K Mixed 0.6
70% 0.83 MB/s
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