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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Abstract: Solid-state disks are easily one of the most exciting new technologies to grace the PC in recent years. The first examples didn't have the capacity or performance to measure up to their exorbitant price tags, but great strides have been made with subse...
Now, let’s do some summarizing. We will go through the tested products in alphabetic order.The Hitachi 7K1000.C had very odd basic firmware with low performance, but now it looks decent enough. It breaks no records and is not completely free from short...
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..
We do have those drives—the Spinpoint F3 and Deskstar 7K1000.C—en route to the Benchmarking Sweatshop, however. Once those have been run through our gauntlet of storage tests, we should have a much clearer picture of where the sweet spot lies...
With only 2 platters, offers good performance with relatively low heat production
Performance trails behind the 2TB models, SATA 6Gb/sec interface sees negligible gains for this generation of drives, Warranty, All Caviar Black and RE4 series drives come with a 5 year warranty. MTBF is rated at 1.2 million hours (137 years), Final Thou
The WD1002FAEX joins a long line of excellent drives from Western Digital, and seems to be as good a time as any for bumping up the interface throughput. Hopefully the push to SATA 6Gb/sec will help drive adoption of this new standard across the rest of...
Ever since its inception, the Western Digital Black lineup has been held in high regards by the storage enthusiast community. Getting to this level of respect wasn’t easy. It took successive generations of drives which improved upon their predecessors’...
Abstract: Most of our avid readers of course have at least one SSD in their desktop and laptop, but for large volume storage you're still relegated to conventional hard disks. It's almost become a negative connotation - 'conventional' - and it really doesn't do t...
The WD Black drive comes in a variety of sizes from 500 GB all the way up to the 4 TB version we are reviewing here.This is one of the only 4 TB drives on the market today so if you need a lot of storage, and a good speed (7,200 RPM) then you really shoul...
We have to be honest here. The Western Digital Caviar Black 4TB is a bit of a letdown. It came out more than 6 months after the Hitachi 7K4000 4TB , yet the Hitachi is faster, cheaper, quieter and more efficient. Granted, you get five years of warranty ...
Abstract: Western Digital has a new 4 TB flagship. Its WD4001FAEX is part of the company’s Black family of performance-oriented drives. Spinning at 7,200 RPM, it might seem at home in a high-end desktop, but our numbers suggest it might fare better in a server. ...
