Testseek.com have collected 159 expert reviews of the Western Digital Black 2 SATA600 WD-XDTL / WD-X06X Series and the average rating is 76%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital Black 2 SATA600 WD-XDTL / WD-X06X Series.
December 2013
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The editors liked
Offers both speed and capacity
2.5inch form factor
Easy to set up
Decent performance from SSD
Fiveyear warranty
The WD Black 2 Dual Drive offers fast SSDbased performance while providing 1.2TB of total storage space. The drive can be used with both laptops and desktops and includes a generous fiveyear warranty
Useful software
And a handy USBtoSATA connector.
The editors didn't like
Expensive compared to standard drives
Magnetic drive is very slow
Ties you into a dual drive
Requires drivers for full functionality
You can get faster or bigger for the money
There's no support for RAID
And you can't blend the two included drives into one single partition
Compared with highend SSDs
The performance is a little disappointing. At the time of the review
Published: 2013-12-20, Author: Jeremy , review by: techradar.com/au/
Offers both speed and capacity, 2.5inch form factor, Easy to set up, Decent performance from SSD, Fiveyear warranty
Expensive compared to standard drives, Magnetic drive is very slow, Ties you into a dual drive, Requires drivers for full functionality, You can get faster or bigger for the money
Innovation is hard to come by in terms of mass data storage. Mechanical platter drives dominated the computer industry for decades thanks largely to standardised manufacturing processes. Drive makers would tinker with the technology - a few added RPMs he...
The WD Black 2 Dual Drive offers fast SSDbased performance while providing 1.2TB of total storage space. The drive can be used with both laptops and desktops and includes a generous fiveyear warranty, useful software, and a handy USBtoSATA connector.
There's no support for RAID, and you can't blend the two included drives into one single partition; compared with highend SSDs, the performance is a little disappointing. At the time of the review, the drive only works with Windows
Fast, user-friendly, and affordable, the WD Black 2 Dual Drive is an easy recommendation as a replacement drive for any standard laptop or desktop computer....
The WD Black 2 Dual Drive is a rather unique device that takes mobile storage to the next level. Within one drive, we have both a 120GB SSD for the operating system and a 1TB HDD for additional data. Previously, this could only be achieved through the us...
Squeezes SSD and hard drive storage into one laptop drive bay, Five-year warranty, Elaborate, user-friendly packaging and install utilities
SSD capacity is scanty by today's standards, SSD portion of drive is sluggish, as SSDs go, A 250GB- or 500GB-class pure SSD will be a better value for most users, 9.5mm thick
The unique Black2 kit combines a full-fledged SSD with a 1TB hard drive in one chassis, letting you install both kinds of storage in a single laptop drive bay. Even with a recent price drop, however, it's a lukewarm value for most notebook upgraders, giv...
Abstract: Every mobile user who is limited to just one storage bay wants the best of both worlds: SSD speeds with HDD capacities. Both Seagate and WD have a one-drive solution to this problem, with Seagate offering a hybrid 1TB hard drive with an SSD cache for SSD-...
Abstract: The WD Black2 is an answer to the prayers of mobile users who have just one drive bay but want the speed of an SSD with the capacity of a hard drive. Unlike a hybrid drive, which stores all data on a hard drive but uses a limited amount of flash storage f...
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Published: 2014-04-08, Author: The , review by: hardwarebbq.com
SSDHDD in a 9.5mm height with total storage space of about 1.1TB, 5 Years Warranty
Bad write performance for an SSD, Too Expensive for the performance it provides, Only meant for notebooks with minimum 9.5mm ZAxis HDD cage
Dissapointing. While the mechanical HDD's performance is not surprising since its a WD Slim Blue 1TB, the 120GB's performance is not good. While the read is pretty decent, writes are horrible for an SSD.SSD+ HDD in a 9.5mm height with total storage spa...
Published: 2014-03-18, Author: Al , review by: modders-inc.com
Abstract: Hybrid drives have been around for some time now but not in the 2.5 inch category. A combo SSD + HDD profile that can replace a laptop or mobile drive with some smart technology is a welcome advancement. Migrating the OS+ from a HDD to SSD can offer some mighty big benefits....
