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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The editors liked
Top capacity point for client workstation use
Five year warranty
With only 2 platters
Offers good performance with relatively low heat production
An improvement over SATA 3GB/s
Dual platter design makes for good performance
Under $100
Enormous capacity without sacrificing performance. Suggested price point is reasonable. Solid operation
Quiet drive and a 5year warranty to boot.
The editors didn't like
Trails Hitachi Deskstar 7k4000 in almost every workload
High max latency issues in all mixed workloads
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
None that I found
Price is a concern if sold above MSRP. Might be a bit slower than similar drives using 1TB platters.
Abstract: Today we are taking a look at some of Western Digital’s high end 4 TB drives: the WD4000FYYZ RE enterprise drive, the WD4001FAEX Black Series consumer drive, and the WD4003FZEX Black Series consumer drive. Each one of these drives is designed to prov...
Abstract: Desktop PC sales might be down, but our storage needs are increasing at a rather fast pace. When building a PC many experts often tell people to find out how much storage space they need now, then double that number for growth and then double that n...
In our home computers we often need more storage space for saving our precious photos, watching HI-Def movies or for installing the latest games, which are becoming larger and larger. If the drive is also speedy, we will see small speed boosts when lo...
Sometimes, benchmark results frame a product as decidedly average. After looking at all of our numbers, Western Digital's WD4001FAEX certainly seems to qualify as just another 4 TB drive; nothing particularly noteworthy. But it's important to consider the...
It has been some time since we reviewed a hard drive and as we mentioned earlier that is partly because innovation in this industry has been almost at a standstill over the past year or so. However it is also largely because we have been focusing on th...
Top capacity point for client workstation use, Five year warranty
Trails Hitachi Deskstar 7k4000 in almost every workload, High max latency issues in all mixed workloads
The WD Black 4TB provides client desktop users with the maximum capacity available in a 7,200 RPM performance hard drive. For those who need big bulk storage but don't want to drop down to slower spindle speeds and lower performance, the WD Black 4TB prov...
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Published: 2012-12-18, Author: Steven , review by: techspot.com
Enormous capacity without sacrificing performance. Suggested price point is reasonable. Solid operation, quiet drive and a 5year warranty to boot.
Price is a concern if sold above MSRP. Might be a bit slower than similar drives using 1TB platters.
It's been some time since we last reviewed a SATA hard drive, in part because innovation in this segment has been almost at a standstill over the past year or so. Evidently, the rapid development of SSDs and the performance focus on that market has stolen...
Abstract: Video Review: The Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" Hard Drive is fast, compatible, reliable and affordable. This HDD's interface is SATA 3 Gb/s (Gigabits per second), is 1000GBs or 1TB, a 64MB buffer size, has a rotation speed of 7200RPMs, avera...
Abstract: Last year we tested 500GB hard disk drives which can be an optimal choice for users who don’t need a lot of disk storage. Today, we want to take a look at products which are twice as large. They are generally as fast as their higher-capacity counterpar...
