Testseek.com have collected 43 expert reviews of the Western Digital 3.5 inch WD Caviar Black SATA300 WD-FALS Series and the average rating is 79%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital 3.5 inch WD Caviar Black SATA300 WD-FALS Series.
November 2008
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The editors liked
Good design features make for high reliability and true realworld speed
Impressive areal density
Excellent single drive performance
Huge capacity.
Impressive areal density. Excellent single drive performance. Huge capacity.
Speedy
Inexpensive
Acceptable read and write performance for a terabyte drive
Excellent random access speeds
The editors didn't like
A bit pricier than most non10k RPM 1TB drives.
Not the best drive for RAID 0 arrays.
Ill-suited for RAID 0.
Performance could be just a little better
Only "faster" than our fastest terabyte drive on one splotch of Vista tests.
Good design features make for high reliability and true realworld speed,
A bit pricier than most non10k RPM 1TB drives.
Western Digitals WD1001FALS Caviar Black 1TB hard disk drive features an enormous amount of reliability-enhancing features as well as incredible speed in real-world tests. Couple this with a five year warranty and you have yourself one high-perfor...
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Abstract: Video Review: The Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB Hard Drive's interface is SATA 3 Gb/s (Gigabits per second), has a capacity of 1000GBs or 1TB, average latency of 4.2ms, a rotation speed of 7,200 RPMs, a 32MB buffer size, power consumption is 8.4W while being accessed and 7W when idle, the noise level is 24dBA to 33dBA and comes with a 5 year warranty. This is one of the very best large capacity hard drives on the market. Watch the video to find out more.
Very good performance, Large 1TB size, Very reasonable price, Great Jack of All Trades drive
A little loud on seeks (though not an overly annoying sound by any means), Latency
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