Testseek.com have collected 105 expert reviews of the Western Digital 3.5 inch WD Caviar Black SATA600 WD-FAEX Series and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital 3.5 inch WD Caviar Black SATA600 WD-FAEX Series.
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It has been some time since we reviewed a hard drive and as we mentioned earlier that is partly because innovation in this industry has been almost at a standstill over the past year or so. However it is also largely because we have been focusing on th...
Top capacity point for client workstation use, Five year warranty
Trails Hitachi Deskstar 7k4000 in almost every workload, High max latency issues in all mixed workloads
The WD Black 4TB provides client desktop users with the maximum capacity available in a 7,200 RPM performance hard drive. For those who need big bulk storage but don't want to drop down to slower spindle speeds and lower performance, the WD Black 4TB prov...
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Published: 2012-12-18, Author: Steven , review by: techspot.com
Enormous capacity without sacrificing performance. Suggested price point is reasonable. Solid operation, quiet drive and a 5year warranty to boot.
Price is a concern if sold above MSRP. Might be a bit slower than similar drives using 1TB platters.
It's been some time since we last reviewed a SATA hard drive, in part because innovation in this segment has been almost at a standstill over the past year or so. Evidently, the rapid development of SSDs and the performance focus on that market has stolen...
Abstract: Video Review: The Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" Hard Drive is fast, compatible, reliable and affordable. This HDD's interface is SATA 3 Gb/s (Gigabits per second), is 1000GBs or 1TB, a 64MB buffer size, has a rotation speed of 7200RPMs, avera...
Abstract: Last year we tested 500GB hard disk drives which can be an optimal choice for users who don’t need a lot of disk storage. Today, we want to take a look at products which are twice as large. They are generally as fast as their higher-capacity counterpar...
Switching to the higher-capacity Scorpio Blue, despite its slower rotational speed, is practically a no-lose situation. Low data-content files that are typically accessed numerous times -- such as, say, bank or credit records -- are at a slight disadv...
Abstract: A 1TB hard drive running at 7,200 rpm, the Western Digital Caviar Black ($79.99 list) comes with a 64MB cache and runs through a 6Gb/s SATA connection. The disk also packs features like dual actuator technology, NoTouch ramp loading and a dual processo...
Abstract: The Western Digital Caviar Black ($129.99 list) is a 1.5TB hard drive that runs at 7,200 rpm through a 6 Gb/s SATA connection and sports a 64MB cache among other features. The drive comes with dual actuator technology, a StableTrac feature, NoTouch ram...
Unfortunately there's no such thing as the perfect hard drive and you'll have to choose your drive according to your priorities. If you’re looking for performance, for a model that will also be serving as a primary drive for example, you’ll want to go ...
An improvement over SATA 3GB/s, Dual platter design makes for good performance, Under $100
None that I found
If you are looking for a huge speed boost from SATA 3GB/s to SATA 6GB/s you are not going to see it, at least not yet. In most of our tests comparing SATA 3GB/s to SATA 6GB/s we only saw a 15-30MB/s difference. While this is not a huge difference it ...
