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The specs, features and pricing make this disk apt for enterprises. * Test Bed: Gigabyte P55A-UD7 motherboard , Intel Core i5 661 (3.33 GHz) Processor, 2Gb (1800MHz) Patriot DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT graphic card, Windows 7 UltimatePage(s) ...
Very fast, perpendicular recording technology, huge capacity
Heats up, a bit noisier than WD GreenPower drives, expensive
The Western Digital RE4 WD2003FYYS boasts of a gigantic 2 TB capacity, backed by a massive 64 MB of cache and an RPM of 7,200. Just like the Caviar Black 2.0 TB we had tested earlier, this drive was not one of the coolest ones, but it was never expecte...
Abstract: SSDs are of course the hippest and fastest form of storage, but if you want lots of storage capacity without breaking the bank, you're still relegated to the familiar realm of the hard disk. There's still some choice out there in this category, and pric...
We want to say a few words about the Samsung SpinPoint F4 first. The company decided to introduce new platters into small-capacity products and this solution seems to be right. The SpinPoint F4 is fast, inexpensive (at least, inexpensive to make) and ...
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..
Abstract: Western Digital’s HDDs get all of our praise. They are excellent in server tests, win PCMark, perform nicely under multithreaded loads, and rout their opponents in the defragmentation and WinRAR tests.
Abstract: Both drives are capable of delivering higher throughput than a WD VelociRaptor, and WD’s 2TB Caviar Black and RE4 are even faster at PCMark Vantage, which runs the access patterns of popular applications.
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...
Caviar Black 2TB: Western Digital is really pushing the envelope with this drive. They took the track geometry improvements seen in the RE4-GP and brought them over to their performance line. They didnt stop at a simple spindle speed increase. Th...
