HDDs are become an integral part of the PC and because the SSDs are not at the stage where they completely replace the HDDs because of the capacity of storage and the mostly people has an HDD for storage in their PCs with SSD as boot drive for high speed boot up as well. As we all known that WD caviar Green 3TB has been a sensational success for WD in the consumer HDD market and they launch their new HDD series after the caviar Green and its WD AV-GP HDD which come with 3TB and 2.5TB capacity as well. WD AV-GP 3TB model is under the guns today and we are going to test its performance today.
WD AV-GP HDD are available in 2.5 TB and 3 TB capacity in most markets and this model still have no rpm or rotational speed mention on it as the caviar green model. Performance WD AV-GP 3TB claimed to be faster for video and audio content and its recommended for multimedia applications. WD AV-GP 3TB has 3x 750GB platters with the old SATA 3 Gbps interface and still o rpm mention on it as well. On the top it has white and green design as eco friendly. From down side it has design pretty similar to the caviar green HDD and from the side it has the SATA and power connection as other HDDs have. The body is of black color from all sides except front where model and other things are mention. The WD AV-GP 3TB runs a bit noisy and hotter than caviar green HDD.
Now lets take a look at BenchMarks to determines the real performance.
WD AV-GP 3TB is of good design but pretty similar to Caviar
Green HDD and it work great in BenchMarks and latency rate and consistacy is
better than caviar green but runs a little hot and a bit of more noise produced
by it as well.
- Excellent Performance in BenchMarks.
- Nice latency Rate.
- Consistent performance.
- Good for multimedia applications.
- Reliable as well.
- Runs hotter and noisy than caviar green.
- A bit more bucks to but than caviar green.
