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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Stupidfast
Heaps of cache
Dualaction actuator arm.
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Randomaccess writes
Burst speeds still slightly slower than VelociRaptor.
Clearly, the benchmark victor is the WD Caviar Black. There's a chunky caveat, however. The Caviar Black is $300 at Newegg, versus about $130 for the slightly smaller capacity Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB. Meanwhile, the WD RE4, which performed similarly t...
When all the drives stop spinning, there are a couple things that literally feel better when testing the Western Digital 2TB Caviar Black Edition Hard Drive. For one, both the Caviar Green and Black drives operate at much, much cooler temps of around...
Abstract: Western Digital did everything right. The company is now the first to offer 2TB hard drives at 7,200 RPM, and it seizes the performance crown in the desktop hard drive segment. We found the Caviar Black 2TB to have the highest throughput..
The Caviar Black line has been a favorite of ours for quite a while now. Some hard drives tend to perform exceptionally well in one or two tasks but comparatively poorly in others. The Blacks have traditionally offered excellent performance in a wide r...
It’s clear from our that the Western Digital 2TB Caviar Black is the fastest 1TB+ hard disk drive we’ve ever tested, and even manages to surpass the under a number of circumstances. However, while the performance is a massive improvement on...
Abstract: The new 7,200 rpm 2 TB drives from Western Digital, RE4 and Caviar Black, achieved the same performance level. They are a lot faster than the...
Abstract: The recent Two Terabyte HDD releases are fast and furious. We tested three samples in this article. There are more to come but this is a start. EXPLANATION of GRAPHSHit2TB = Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 (HDS722020ALA330) Idle: 7.5 watts, Startu...
The WD Caviar Black 2 TB (model WD2001FASS) hard drive is insanely fast for how big it is and the WD Caviar Green 2 TB (model WD20EADS) is perfect for those that want big storage with energy efficiency. ...
