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Description: PCIe Gen 3 x4
Drive Size: 238.5 GB
Other names: WDC WDS256G1X0C-00ENX0
Drive First Benchmarked: 2017-03-10
Drive Rating/$Price: 286.98
Overall Rank: 6659
Last Price Change: $22.99 USD (2024-12-19)
| Sequential Read | 968 MBytes/Sec |
|---|---|
| Sequential Write | 615 MBytes/Sec |
| Random Seek Read Write (IOPS 32KQD20) | 380 MBytes/Sec |
| IOPS 4KQD1 | 46 MBytes/Sec |
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| Drive | Average Disk Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| WD Black NVMe 256GB | 6,598 | |
| Seagate ST2000DM008 | 2,350 | |
| Seagate ST1000DM010 | 1,372 | |
| Seagate Barracuda 2TB Hard Drive | 1,313 | |
| TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 | 1,250 | |
| WDC WD10EZEX | 1,223 | |
| Seagate ST1000DM003 | 1,174 | |
| TOSHIBA DT01ACA050 | 1,139 | |
| TOSHIBA MQ04ABF100 | 1,056 | |
| WDC WD10SPZX | 897 | |
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| Baseline | Disk Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| BL3324967 - Mar 04 2026 | 7935 | |
| BL3300150 - Feb 20 2026 | 7544 | |
| BL3295756 - Feb 18 2026 | 7902 | |
| BL3293209 - Feb 17 2026 | 7792 | |
| BL3274707 - Feb 09 2026 | 5794 | |
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