New
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Last edited by ICIT2LOL; 14 Jul 2012 at 22:44. Reason: Addition
These new 1TB WD10EZEX blue drives have some really great sequential speeds, are very quiet and sport 64MB cache and new technology format (internal). Topping 190 MB/s at the end of the platter and about 150 MB/s mid-platter. Using them for backup of my SSD is quite fast. You can get them for around $85.
Yellow specs = random access latency across platter the with the scale on the right hand side of the graph.
BTW, just a heads up. The free version of HDTune will change the "put the computer to Sleep" time to "Never" and will not restore what you had it set to. Took me a while to figure out HDtune was messing with my power plan.