User opinions of Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA300 WD1001FALS

This is one of the best drives out there. You have over 100MB/s speed (one of the very few drives that can do that) and in the same time you have the same components as the RAID edition version, meaning that the MTBF is practically guaranteed. I have 4 of these drives running in both RAID 0 and RAID 5 configuration. RAID scaling is very good, practically linear for RAID 0 (yes, I get read and write speeds of over 400MB/s effective !). So if you want a drive of 1TB and not only large but also reliable and fast, this is the one to get....

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This is one of the best drives out there. You have over 100MB/s speed (one of the very few drives that can do that) and in the same time you have the same components as the RAID edition version, meaning that the MTBF is practically guaranteed. I have 4 of these drives running in both RAID 0 and RAID 5 configuration. RAID scaling is very good, practically linear for RAID 0 (yes, I get read and write speeds of over 400MB/s effective !). So if you want a drive of 1TB and not only large but also reliable and fast, this is the one to get.

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Overmind would recommend Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA300 WD1001FALS this to a friend

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