Testseek.com have collected 42 expert reviews of the Western Digital 3.5 inch WD Caviar Black SATA300 WD-FASS Series and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital 3.5 inch WD Caviar Black SATA300 WD-FASS Series.
December 2009
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The editors liked
Stupidfast
Heaps of cache
Dualaction actuator arm.
The editors didn't like
Randomaccess writes
Burst speeds still slightly slower than VelociRaptor.
Abstract: A 2TB hard drive running at 7,200 rpm, the Western Digital Caviar Black ($189 list) offers a 64MB cache and an average latency of 4.2 millieseconds. The drive comes with a 6GB/s SATA connection, a minimum rate of 300,000 load/unload cycles and more. De...
We want to say a few words about the Samsung SpinPoint F4 first. The company decided to introduce new platters into small-capacity products and this solution seems to be right. The SpinPoint F4 is fast, inexpensive (at least, inexpensive to make) and ...
Abstract: The Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB and VelociRaptor 600GB are two of the fastest SATA hard drives money can buy. HDD performance almost always comes at an acoustic price, but are these drives quieter than the predecessors, and do their speed/capacity...
Abstract: Armed with dual processors and a large and fast 64 MB cache, the 2 TB Western Digital Caviar Black is one of Western Digital's fastest desktop hard disk drives. Spinning at full 7200 RPM, this drive is designed for maximum performance, a fact that is ....
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..
The 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black is a good contender if you are searching for a high-capacity, high-performance consumer hard drive. Compared to the Western Digital RE4 and Seagate Constellation ES it ranks closely in speed and has more than accept...
Abstract: Western Digital’s HDDs get all of our praise. They are excellent in server tests, win PCMark, perform nicely under multithreaded loads, and rout their opponents in the defragmentation and WinRAR tests.
So you have amazing performance along with a large capacity, sounds perfect doesn't it? The only issues with Western Digital's 2TB Caviar Black is its price and limited availability. A price I'm sure will drop over time. But when you are gett...
Abstract: The Caviar Black 2TB was slightly slower in average read/write speeds than the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB, but it featured faster random access times in both HD Tach and SiSoftware Sandra 2010 Lite. The Caviar Black also boasted a higher..
Abstract: After presenting a 2TB WD Green drive, models for the middle segment were skipped and the company went directly to the fastest models. This time, WD joy us with the representative of Black series featuring the largest capacity: whopping 2 terabytes of ...
