Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA300 WD1001FALS
November 2008
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Bottomline: Source: FutureMarkPCMark Vantage is the first objective hardware performance benchmark for PCs running 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Vista. PCMark Vantage is perfectly suited for benchmarking any type of Windows Vista PC from multi media home ent...
Bottomline: Benchmarking the Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB has really opened my eyes to what kind of speed the latest generation of hard disk drives are capable of. As I mentioned during testing, I can remember when striping two IDE drives in a RAID0 array wa...
Good: Reliable, Good pricetoperformance ratio, Excellent warranty coverage
Bad: Performance could be better
Bottomline: Now that the dust has cleared, it’s time to determine where we stand on the Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB hard drive. On the one hand, we have a 1TB drive that offers what is claimed to be the best performance around for a desktop drive. It has a...
Bottomline: The WD Caviar Black 1TB drive is a bigger, louder, and more power hungry version of the Caviar Blue 640GB. Performance according to HD Tach was a bit disappointing — though it has a higher areal density and twice the cache, it didnt seem to be any f...
Bottomline: The WD Caviar Black 1TB hard drive has proved to be quite a quick drive. A quicker drive means faster loading of the operating system, programs, and games. Nothing is worse than waiting for your operating system to load when you first turn your comput...
Bottomline: The WD Caviar Black offers a formatted capacity of roughly 940 GB on 3 platters, which offers 333 GB per platter and sports a SATA-2 interface. For testing the performance of the drive, we ran it past simple synthetic benchmark tests using the well-kno...
Good: Fast, Silent, Perpendicular recording technology, Consistently good random file transfer speeds.
Bad: Heats up a bit.
Bottomline: Though late, Western Digital has finally entered the 1 TB party. Before you start calling up your hardware dealer, we would like to tell you that this is a performance hard drive and WD is targeting gamers and enthusiasts. The drive is therefore more e...
Abstract: It seems Western Digital has been eyeing Mercedes Benz AMG’s performance division because just as that company offers ‘Black Series’ cars that perform better than standard AMG models, Western Digital has now included ‘Black...
Bottomline: Western Digital took its sweet time cranking a terabyte up to 7,200RPM. The company has finally birthed its Caviar Black 1TB, and if its performance you crave, the drive was well worth the wait. Rather than optimizing the Black for a single class of w...
Good: Impressive areal density; excellent single drive performance; huge capacity.
Bad: Not the best drive for RAID 0 arrays.
Bottomline: The Caviar Black is the best single, 1TB hard drive you can get today, but its not well suited for RAID 0 environments.PCMark Vangate Disk ......
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