Western digital wd blue hdd review in Spanish (full analysis)

We wanted to analyze all the storage units that we have acquired for this beginning of 2020, but in this case we have pulled out a cabinet for this Western Digital WD Blue HDD, specifically a 1 TB unit in which we will evaluate its performance and see what has changed Regarding the most recent mechanical units, out of curiosity.

We know that the manufacturer's Blue family is geared towards offering optimum performance and durability at an affordable price, making them the ultimate consumer hard drive.

WD Blue HDD technical features

Unboxing and design

Starting with unboxing, we can say that life has not changed much in these years. This WD Blue HDD, like its current brothers , will be delivered to us in a simple sealed antistatic bag and the packaging that the distributor wants to put on it. The best you could choose would be an inflated plastic mat to avoid bumps during transportation.

The look of the hard drive has not changed one iota, and we are facing an encapsulation made of aluminum in a 3.5 "format, although it is a series that is also available in a 2.5" format for laptops. The measures of this package are the standard ones, with 147 mm long, 102 mm wide and 25 mm thick, weighing about 440 grams, slightly less than the units with the highest capacity as they have fewer plates.

The interior is completely sealed to prevent breakage with dust particles, using in this case an air pressurization in the entire series including the 6 TB units. And it is that helium began to be used very recently from 10 TB drives onwards and for high-end versions such as RED for NAS. In this sense, nothing has changed for this series.

Features and characteristics

This WD Blue HDD 1 TB that we analyze is the 7200 RPM version, which we will distinguish by serial code WD10EZEX, while the 5400 RPM version would be WD10EZEZ, that is, we change the last letter only. The same goes for the rest of the storage sizes we have, X for 7200 and Z for 5400 RPM, easy.

The read and write performance amounts to 150 MB / s, a very standard or somewhat low figure even for this type of mechanical units. We have recently tested 10 TB HDDs that give us performances of 220 MB / s, which are already very important figures in the case of mechanics. Of course, the more plates and more heads, the more performance we will have in principle, being 180 MB / s for the 6 TB ones, although it is very far from the top of the ATA III 6 Gbps interface.

As for the other important data for the WD Blue HDD 1 TB, we have a 64 MB DDR3 type cache in all available sizes. The consumption in standby mode is 6.1 W, while under load it amounts to only 6.8 W. Finally, the noise that this unit will generate rises to 30 dB while working and 29 dB at rest. In this case we do not have a guarantee limited to the amount of Terabytes written, since the magnetic technology on which these units are based offers practically unlimited life for the memory cells.

Test equipment and benchmarks

We now turn to the test battery corresponding to this 1 TB WD Blue HDD. To do this, we have used the following test bench:

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	Intel i9-9900K
Base plate:	Asus Maximus Formula XI
Memory:	16GB DDR4 T-Force
Heatsink	Corsair H100i Platinum SE
HDD	Western Digital WD Blue HDD 1TB
Graphic card	Gigabyte RTX 2080 Super
Power supply	Cooler Master V850 Gold

The tests to which we have submitted this SSD are as follows:

Crystal Disk MarkAS SSD BenchmarkATTO Disk BenchmarkAnvil´s Storage

All of these programs are in current versions. Remember not to abuse these tests in your units, since the life time is reduced.

The results show us a worthy performance that reaches up to 170 MB / s in sequential read and write under CristalDiskMark. Meanwhile, the performance in random read and write drops to minuscule values around 1 MB / s. It is not that the current units have much better these figures, since the greatest limit that we find is their mechanical origin.

And this is always evident in latencies, where we see rates that always exceed several milliseconds, even reaching 8, 20 or 46 ms in reading for random actions. For this reason, it is nowadays essential to install an operating system on an SSD instead of HDD.

Final words and conclusion about the 1 TB WD Blue HDD

We come to the end of this brief analysis of the WD Blue HDD which shows us more than expected results to be a unit of mechanical origin. Here what we always look for is the low cost per GB of space and a reliable unit to store data in the long term, and we are assured of this.

We recommend our guide to the best SSDs on the market.

It is a unit that has been with us since 2014, and its performance has not changed one iota in the current generation. We have obtained rates around 155 MB / s according to what the manufacturer specifies with a 64 MB cache and sizes up to 6 TB. Plus, we have a two-year unlimited warranty on TBW.

The WD Blue HDD is currently priced at € 42.70 for the 1TB and 3.5-inch version, although it is also available in 2.5 ” and up to 6TB format. With this figure we speak of 4 cent / GB, which will improve as the HDD has a greater capacity. One of the best selling hard drives that needs neither recommendation nor presentation, because we all know what we will find in it.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ MAXIMUM RELIABILITY	- BEING MECHANICALLY OBVIOUSLY
+ CONSTANT PERFORMANCE AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF USE
+ PRICE
+ VARIANTS UP TO 6 TB AND IN 3.5 ”AND 2.5” FORMATS

The Professional Review team awards him the bronze medal:

Western Digital WD10EZEX - Hard Drive, Caviar Blue 1000GB Internal

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