I tried 4 times. No background process.Is it consistently reproducible? How many times did you do this?
Can anyone independently verify these results?
Note that maximum and burst rate speeds are not that different.
There could have been a background process doing something that affected your results.
May it really have not an effect in real world use, but the problem is:Does it really have an effect in your real world use case?
Personally the only time I have noticed a difference in HDD performance on any machine is when using an external SSD versus a mechanical drive. And that too mostly running VM's. YMMV.. do let us know.