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.
Abstract: Western Digital has revamped its naming structure, so instead of a vaguely intelligible series of letters and numbers that make up a model name, the Caviar Black is now its best standard desktop hard drive.It’s made from parts that found themselves...
Abstract: This is the highest-capacity drive in Western Digitals new Caviar Black range, which puts an emphasis on performance. However, while Western Digital disks have dominated our Also Consider... list in recent months, this model doesnt do enough to ...
The Barracuda 7200.11 has an enormous capacity, is very fast, has a modest price and operates quietly. It's clear that SSDs will replace hard drives in time, but with drives like the 1.4TB Barracuda around, that still lies some way in the future. ...
Abstract: As the WD Caviar Black costs more than the SpinPoint F1, and the 640GB Caviar SE16 provides two-thirds of the storage of this disk for less than half the price, and offers equal or better performance, it would appear that blue is the new black. ...
