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
(76%)
159 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(100%)
1 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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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
Abstract: PC storage is split these days between solid-state and mechanical drives, although the two camps are complementary. SSDs offer blazing performance but are relatively pricey per gigabyte, while mechanical drives boast plentiful storage at much lower prices...
Abstract: WD recently announced the release of the WD Black2 dual drive, a unique storage innovation that fuses a 2.5-inch 120 GB solid state drive (SSD) with a 1 TB hard disk drive (HDD) to offer a powerful dual drive solution – and this is our review.Perfect for...
Two separate volumes in one single unit, Best solution for SSD read performance and HDD capacity, 5 year warranty, Well known brand
Pricing is similar to that of pure SSDs with half the capacity,
PricingPriced at $339.99 over on Newegg, the Black² Dual Drive is not the cheapest option out there for anyone who is looking for both SSD and HDD storage mediums, considering two separate drives with similar performance levels will cost around $100-140 l...
The Western Digital Black2 Dual Drive is certainly a mouthful to name but thankfully it's worth the effort as it really does deliver on being an ingenious upgrade for anyone out there with either a PC or laptop that only has room for one 2.5in drive. Its...
Having a WD Black 2 installed in your laptop is just like having two separate drives. It's less economical than buying a separate SSD and hard disk, and is only particularly useful as a laptop upgrade where there's no space for two discrete drives. But at...
Published: 2013-12-20, Author: Jeremy , review by: techradar.com
Offers both speed and capacity, 2.5, inch form factor, Easy to set up, Decent performance from SSD, Five, year 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
For laptops, the proposition is a bit more finely balanced. If you only have one drive bay, matching the 1.1TB capacity is going to be brutally expensive if you go for an SSD. However, for a little less than the price of the WD Black² you could have, say...
If you have a Windows laptop with a single drive bay AND you need more than 500GB of storage AND you don't want to spend more than £250 AND you're not too concerned about performance THEN I strongly recommend the WD Black² Dual Drive. But that's a LOT of...
