New Release - WD Black² Dual Drive Firmware Version 5865 (3/19/14)

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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RichardL1 wrote:

I have a dual drive as well but the USB driver does not work. go into computers and then find the USB and I think you will find that there is nothing on it, you will have to go to the WD site to find it

Hi RichardL1,

Are you referring to the USB that came with the drive? That is not actually a USB stick. It is a “jumpstart” program that is supposed to open a browser and redirect you to the WD website to download the software.

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daam :confused: this FW just “killed” my drive.
well not actualy killed the drive, but nerfed the read/write speed with like 20 mb/sec at ssd part .
Look at those test:

Before FW update:

SSD before FW:

CrystalDiskMark 4.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2015 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 471.197 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 130.260 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 232.338 MB/s [56723.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 127.360 MB/s [31093.8 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 298.028 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 129.824 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 30.796 MB/s [7518.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 96.126 MB/s [23468.3 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [C: 62.6% (70.0/111.7 GiB)] (x3)
Date : 2015/06/09 18:42:08
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

SSD AFTER FW:

CrystalDiskMark 4.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2015 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 450.649 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 127.595 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 231.410 MB/s [56496.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 126.041 MB/s [30771.7 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 289.653 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 128.573 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 30.059 MB/s [7338.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 90.890 MB/s [22189.9 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [C: 63.1% (70.5/111.7 GiB)] (x3)
Date : 2015/06/09 19:37:17
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

1 TB drive before FW:

CrystalDiskMark 4.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2015 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 93.770 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 94.697 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.482 MB/s [361.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.114 MB/s [272.0 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 96.686 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 75.296 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.508 MB/s [124.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.946 MB/s [231.0 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [G: 32.9% (306.8/931.5 GiB)] (x3)
Date : 2015/06/09 18:37:37
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

1TB drive after FW:

CrystalDiskMark 4.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2015 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 95.612 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 92.672 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.521 MB/s [371.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.007 MB/s [245.8 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 92.910 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 96.472 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.537 MB/s [131.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 1.019 MB/s [248.8 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [G: 32.9% (306.8/931.5 GiB)] (x3)
Date : 2015/06/09 19:42:50
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

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I created the DOS boot disk but when I run the WD tool it says no disk found?