Western Digital Black2 Dual Drive Review

WD Black2 Dual Drive WD Black2 Dual Drive

Testing – CrystalDiskMark & AS SSD
CrystalDiskMark is our next test and it has a sequential read / write test as well as a 512k and 4k random read / write test. The SSD is up first.

ssd-crystal

Here we can see sequential read and write scores of 426.2 MB/s and 148.8 MB/s respectively. Now for the 1TB hard drive.

hdd-crystal

Again great scores right up around 115-116 MB/s.

Our final test is the AS SSD Benchmark. This benchmark contains four synthetic as well as three practice tests. Again, the SSD test is first.

ssd-as-ssd

Here we see more good results. Now for the HDD test.

hdd-as-ssd

Again, right up to what we expect.

3 comments
  1. So to clarify, you use the term Unlock, once the drive is unlocked with the windows software, can it be removed and/or booted to Linux and have it see both partitions? Or is this more of a windows only driver bit that enables the 2nd HDD to be seen?

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