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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Abstract: A 1TB hard drive running at 7,200 rpm, the Western Digital Caviar Black ($79.99 list) comes with a 64MB cache and runs through a 6Gb/s SATA connection. The disk also packs features like dual actuator technology, NoTouch ramp loading and a dual processo...
Abstract: The Western Digital Caviar Black ($129.99 list) is a 1.5TB hard drive that runs at 7,200 rpm through a 6 Gb/s SATA connection and sports a 64MB cache among other features. The drive comes with dual actuator technology, a StableTrac feature, NoTouch ram...
Unfortunately there's no such thing as the perfect hard drive and you'll have to choose your drive according to your priorities. If you’re looking for performance, for a model that will also be serving as a primary drive for example, you’ll want to go ...
An improvement over SATA 3GB/s, Dual platter design makes for good performance, Under $100
None that I found
If you are looking for a huge speed boost from SATA 3GB/s to SATA 6GB/s you are not going to see it, at least not yet. In most of our tests comparing SATA 3GB/s to SATA 6GB/s we only saw a 15-30MB/s difference. While this is not a huge difference it ...
Abstract: Solid-state disks are easily one of the most exciting new technologies to grace the PC in recent years. The first examples didn't have the capacity or performance to measure up to their exorbitant price tags, but great strides have been made with subse...
Now, let’s do some summarizing. We will go through the tested products in alphabetic order.The Hitachi 7K1000.C had very odd basic firmware with low performance, but now it looks decent enough. It breaks no records and is not completely free from short...
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..
We do have those drives—the Spinpoint F3 and Deskstar 7K1000.C—en route to the Benchmarking Sweatshop, however. Once those have been run through our gauntlet of storage tests, we should have a much clearer picture of where the sweet spot lies...
With only 2 platters, offers good performance with relatively low heat production
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
The WD1002FAEX joins a long line of excellent drives from Western Digital, and seems to be as good a time as any for bumping up the interface throughput. Hopefully the push to SATA 6Gb/sec will help drive adoption of this new standard across the rest of...
Ever since its inception, the Western Digital Black lineup has been held in high regards by the storage enthusiast community. Getting to this level of respect wasn’t easy. It took successive generations of drives which improved upon their predecessors’...
