New Western Digital Drive WD6400AAKS 640GB

[Axle916]

Do any of you have this hard drive yet? I just ordered one, I was wondering how it performs?

 

[San Pedro]

I'm thinking of getting one too, price seems to be about right for me.

 

[iluv2fly]

It is very fast.

Here are the Benchmarks. HD Tune PRO 3.00

read transfer rate

Maximum 108.4 MB/sec

Minimum 51.1 MB/sec

Average 87.6 MB/sec

Access time 12.5ms

Burst rate 90.2 MB/sec

CPU usage 9.5%

After partitioning it in windows there will be 595GB left of the original 640gb.

It is near silent and cool running.