Testseek.com have collected 42 expert reviews of the Western Digital 3.5 inch WD Caviar Black SATA300 WD-FASS Series and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital 3.5 inch WD Caviar Black SATA300 WD-FASS Series.
December 2009
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Published: 2009-12-09, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
It is a relief to see that Western Digital was able to deliver a product with best in class performance without the need to invest in expensive SATA 6G products. Just like when the Caviar Green was introduced, we are put off by the initial high cos...
Abstract: A 2TB hard drive running at 7,200 rpm, the Western Digital Caviar Black ($189 list) offers a 64MB cache and an average latency of 4.2 millieseconds. The drive comes with a 6GB/s SATA connection, a minimum rate of 300,000 load/unload cycles and more. De...
We want to say a few words about the Samsung SpinPoint F4 first. The company decided to introduce new platters into small-capacity products and this solution seems to be right. The SpinPoint F4 is fast, inexpensive (at least, inexpensive to make) and ...
Abstract: The Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB and VelociRaptor 600GB are two of the fastest SATA hard drives money can buy. HDD performance almost always comes at an acoustic price, but are these drives quieter than the predecessors, and do their speed/capacity...
Abstract: Armed with dual processors and a large and fast 64 MB cache, the 2 TB Western Digital Caviar Black is one of Western Digital's fastest desktop hard disk drives. Spinning at full 7200 RPM, this drive is designed for maximum performance, a fact that is ....
Abstract: Above is a chart we put together that represents an (unweighted) geometric mean of the overall performance of each drive, based on all the tests we performed. Use this chart as a rough guide only, as we used an admittedly simplistic methodology to create these comparison numbers: All the test scores were calculated with equal weighting; we factored..
The 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black is a good contender if you are searching for a high-capacity, high-performance consumer hard drive. Compared to the Western Digital RE4 and Seagate Constellation ES it ranks closely in speed and has more than accept...
Abstract: Western Digital’s HDDs get all of our praise. They are excellent in server tests, win PCMark, perform nicely under multithreaded loads, and rout their opponents in the defragmentation and WinRAR tests.
