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WDC WD20EARS

Price and performance details for the WDC WD20EARS can be found below. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.

  • The first graph shows the relative performance of the Hard Drive compared to the 10 other common Hard Drives in terms of PassMark Disk Rating.
  • The 2nd graph shows the value for money, in terms of the Disk Rating per dollar.

WDC WD20EARS

Drive Size:  1.8 TB

Other names:  WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0, WDC WD20EARS-22MVWB0, WDC WD20EARS-60MVWB0, WDC WD20EARS-00J99B0, WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1, WDC WD20EARS-55MVWB0, WDC WD20EARS-19MVWB0, WDC WD20EARS-00S0XB0, WDC WD20EARS-00J99B0 ATA Device

Drive First Benchmarked: 2011-02-23

Drive Rating/$Price: 7.81

Overall Rank:  14431

Last Price Change:  $85.99 USD (2023-07-19)

Average Drive Rating
672
Samples: 33

Disk Test Suite Average Results for WDC WD20EARS

Sequential Read100 MBytes/Sec
Sequential Write94 MBytes/Sec
Random Seek Read Write (IOPS 32KQD20)6 MBytes/Sec
IOPS 4KQD10 MBytes/Sec
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Pricing History


Drive Rating Relative to Top 10 HDDs Common Drives
As of 13th of July 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Drive Average Disk Rating
Seagate ST1000DM010
1,443
TOSHIBA DT01ACA100
1,291
WDC WD10EZEX
1,258
Seagate ST2000DM001
1,213
Seagate ST1000DM003
1,182
TOSHIBA DT01ACA050
1,146
TOSHIBA MQ04ABF100
1,094
WDC WD10SPZX
939
HGST HTS721010A9E630
818
WDC WD20EARS
672
Last 5 Baselines for WDC WD20EARS
Most recent listed first
Baseline Disk Rating
BL2582136 - Apr 26 2025
672
BL2540694 - Apr 08 2025
710
BL2429696 - Feb 20 2025
822
BL2317467 - Jan 03 2025
731
BL2275491 - Dec 12 2024
619