Results: new 12TB WD Gold, new 4TB Qvo 870, & 2 others

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thenitch

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Driv Size  Drive Identity     Location:    0      25%     50%     75%     100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
81   12TB WDC WD121KRYZ-01W0RB0         253.0   232.0   208.2   171.3   121.0
82  4.0TB Samsung SSD 870 QVO 4TB       519.5   540.5   540.7   543.2   541.2
83  120GB KINGSTON SA400S37120G         399.9   252.3   316.7   447.5   253.8
84  4.0TB WDC WD40EZRZ-00GXCB0          179.7   167.1   149.1   120.5    82.7

                  Benchmarked: Wednesday, 2020-12-30 at 20:34

Drive 81 is the brand new Western Digital Gold drive
Drive 82 is brand new
Drive 83 has been in use for a few years
Drive 84 is been in use for a few years and is a Western Digital Blue drive (spinning not SSD)

An interesting thing when running ReadSpeed with the /4 switch on the new gold drive is how slow a couple of the sectors were. See below:


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Driv Size  Drive Identity     Location:    0      25%     50%     75%     100
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81   12TB WDC WD121KRYZ-01W0RB0         252.7   231.8   208.2   171.3   121.2
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
                                         206.1   237.1   213.7   178.1   123.4
                                         241.7   231.0   208.8   177.1   120.5
                                         259.7   231.0   109.7   101.0    79.8
                                         251.3   231.0   224.1   178.0   122.0
                                         249.6   226.5   210.4   171.8   120.6
                                         250.4   235.9   203.8   185.6   120.5
                                         250.0   230.2   211.2   172.9   120.8
                                         250.7   231.5   210.9   178.5   120.6
                                         250.7   231.0   211.6   178.0   120.7
                                         250.6   230.6   203.4   172.9   120.8
                                         262.6   226.0   219.8   178.8   120.7
                                         249.4    47.6   211.0   178.5   123.3
                                         249.9   237.4   211.2   172.8   120.8
                                         251.5   231.0   211.1   178.4   120.5
                                         249.6   230.6   210.9   178.3   119.6
                                         250.2   231.5   203.2   178.2    30.0
                                         250.7   230.6   211.3   173.0   121.9
                                         250.8   231.5   211.6   176.9   120.6
                                         249.8   231.1   210.7    37.8   120.8
                                         251.1   231.0   211.4   174.2   120.7
                                         250.7   230.6   208.3   178.4   120.7
                                         250.1   231.4    46.7   178.4   123.2
 
@thenitch : We're not really able to draw any solid conclusions from those timings for spinning drives without looking more closely. Even with the maximum (/4) resolution, we're still asking for 4,096 sectors (2 megabytes) for each of those numbers. But it might well be that somewhere in those 2 megabyte blocks is a sector that's really causing some trouble.