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At the end of last year we published a review of the Western Digital WD RE 4TB , the first 4TB hard disk from Western Digital. This disk from the WD RE series was aimed at professional use for servers and storage solutions, and its sticker price reflect...
We have to be honest here. The Western Digital Caviar Black 4TB is a bit of a letdown. It came out more than 6 months after the Hitachi 7K4000 4TB , yet the Hitachi is faster, cheaper, quieter and more efficient. Granted, you get five years of warranty...
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tomshardware.co.uk Updated:
2013-09-10 01:20:49
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Western Digital has a new 4 TB flagship. Its WD4001FAEX is part of the company’s Black family of performance-oriented drives. Spinning at 7,200 RPM, it might seem at home in a high-end desktop, but our numbers suggest it might fare better in a server...
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In May we tested the first 4TB hard disks, the 7K4000 and 5K4000 from Hitachi . At the time we had hoped that the two other players, Seagate and Western Digital, would also come with their first 4TB disks. That took a lot longer than we expected, but WD...
After more than six months there are finally some more options among 4 TB disks. With the Western Digital WD RE 4TB, WD has created a high-performance 4TB for servers. This hard disk is not suitable for consumers. Not only because of the high price, bu...
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In the never ending quest to cram the maximum amount of storage capacity into a single drive, Western Digital’s new Black Edition 4TB stands as a unique device. While other 4TB drives are already available, this is the only one which successfully comb...
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’...
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itreviews.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:20:51
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Western Digital's Caviar Black WD1002FAEX is a sprightly hard drive that aims to mix up good performance with reliability, boasting support for the 3Gbit/s and 6Gbit/s SATA disk interface. With a spin speed of 7,200rpm, it sits towards the upper end o...
A combination of performance and reliability at a sweet spot of a price...
Small quibble over noise; mild price premium.
A quality, reliable hard drive, with welcome added performance features...
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Most of our avid readers of course have at least one SSD in their desktop and laptop, but for large volume storage you're still relegated to conventional hard disks. It's almost become a negative connotation - 'conventional' - and it really doesn't do t...
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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...
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With storage requirements becoming bigger and bigger all the time, WD have a 4 TB drive in their Black range, and here is our review.WD Black hard drives are designed for enthusiasts and creative professionals looking for leading-edge performance. These 3...
The WD Black drive comes in a variety of sizes from 500 GB all the way up to the 4 TB version we are reviewing here.This is one of the only 4 TB drives on the market today so if you need a lot of storage, and a good speed (7,200 RPM) then you really shoul...
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Updated: Available now at select retailers such as PC Hub (Gilmore Branch), Thinking Tools (PC Quick Buy SM), PC Express (Beyond PC Megamall), and Blinque (Davao Branch), WD Black2 dual drives are distributed by Ubertech, Inc. and are covered by a five-ye...
An Alternative to HybridsThe WD Black2 is remarkable because it combines two drives into a single 2.5-inch form factor. As a result, its target market are notebook users who are seeking to upgrade their storage, specifically those who want the speed of an...
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When you're working in industries, such as industrial design or animation, the need for hard drives that offer both high capacity and performance storage are considered to be very critical. More often than not, these industries can't have their digital st...
Review: WD Black 4TBReview by Edward MassWhen you're working in industries, such as industrial design or animation, the need for hard drives that offer both high capacity and performance storage are considered to be very critical. More often than not, the...
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tbreak.ae Updated:
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Western Digital have been at the forefront of storage solutions for a solid number of years, and it's their commitment to research and development that has enabled them to keep this position. The company has been vehemently pushing their “Power of Choice”...
So what makes the WD 4TB Black worth your attention? Well when you take into account the 5 year warranty that bundles with this drive, it quickly becomes clear that for the price you're paying, you get a drive that's going to serve you well for a much lo...
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If you need massive single-drive storage then there's really no going higher than the 4TB capacity available right now. Sure, SSDs have taken the spotlight when it comes to storage solutions but they just can't complete with the price-per-GB ratio that me...
Its pretty clear the WD Black 4TB sets itself apart, possessing equal balance of performance and extremely large capacity to provide an all-in-one storage solution for enthusiasts and power users looking for that vast amounts of digital realty. Let's brea...
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While SSDs have might in the advantage in speed, traditional mechanical hard disks still trump their flash memory counterparts when it comes to capacity. Even today, most capacity consumer-grade SSDs top out at 512GB, whereas 1TB hard disks are commonplac...
Capacity x PerformanceLooking at the results from our grueling benchmarks, the new Black 4TB offers a good blend of both capacity and performance. Sequential read and write performance is generally very good thanks to its use of five smaller 800GB platter...
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At first I would like to thank Western Digital for offering me a sample of their Black WD2002FAEX 2TB HDD for testing and reviewing. About Western Digital: "Western Digital is one of the world’s largest makers of data storage products – a data s...
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...
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hardwareunboxed.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:20:49
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Today we are checking out the latest addition to the elite Western Digital Black hard drive series which supports a massive 4TB storage capacity. Designed to deliver a balance between speed, capacity and price, we are keen to see what this latest WD cr...
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...
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The 4TB WD Black is Western Digital's top-capacity and top-performing 7,200 RPM client system hard drive. The standard 3.5" form factor is designed to provide bulk storage for desktop use, while still offering top class performance. WD is using their stan...
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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Last year's Thailand floods wreaked havoc on the storage industry, as the region accounts for about half of all hard drive production. Western Digital was among the hardest hit, announcing last October that, like many others, it would suspend operations a...
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...
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In the PC enthusiast community, SSDs and VelociRaptor hard drives are all the rage. High-end performance numbers is what everybody likes to see. And not only see, but feel the difference as well since everything suddenly speeds up with these fast hard...
High speeds due to SATA III, Silent operations, Goes to sleep to save power...
Nothing, really; except that prices are overinflated due to flooding in Taiwan.
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3dGameMan.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:20:50
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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...
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Whether you have a Windows- or OS X-based laptop, one glaring flaw in either genre (and in laptops in general) is the capacity of the hard drive. A year ago, it became possible to pump up a desktop computer with a 3TB drive, but your laptop hit a wall...
Switching to the higher-capacity Scorpio Blue, despite its slower rotational speed, is practically a no-lose situation. Low data-content files that are typically accessed numerous times -- such as, say, bank or credit records -- are at a slight disadv...
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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...
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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...
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Behardware.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:20:51
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Since our last hard drive report published in August 2010 and updated earlier this year, several manufacturers have introduced new models to their ranges. Hitachi have brought in the Deskstar 5K3000 and 7K3000 and Seagate's 5900 rpm range (previously...
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...
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With all of the solid state hard drives that came out this year it seems like traditional hard drives sort of took a back seat, unless you were looking to get a large capacity drive. One thing that many people may have overlooked was the availabil...
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...
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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...
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xbitlabs.com Updated:
2013-09-10 01:20:52
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We are going to digress from our tradition of comparing hard disk drives of the same capacity within a single review. Not long ago we wrote about 1-terabyte and then about 2-terabyte HDDs, so we already know HDDs of these capacities well enough. But as...
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...
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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...
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ManufacturerWestern DigitalModelCaviar Black 1TB(WD1002FAEX)Price (street)$119.99AvailabilityNowWestern Digital's 640GB Caviar hard drives have found their way into each and every one of our system guides for just about two years now. We've recommended...
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...
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Western Digital recently (and silently) slipped a SATA 6Gb/sec model into their Caviar Black lineup. We obtained a sample to evaluate how this drive stacks up against the other WD models. We're also using it as an opportunity to evaluate performanc...
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...
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Western Digital have been at the forefront of storage solutions for a solid number of years, and it's their commitment to research and development that has enabled them to keep this position. The company has been vehemently pushing their “Power of Choice”...
So what makes the WD 4TB Black worth your attention? Well when you take into account the 5 year warranty that bundles with this drive, it quickly becomes clear that for the price you're paying, you get a drive that's going to serve you well for a much lo...
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hardwarebbq.com Updated:
2014-01-31 01:25:40
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WD sent their Caviar Black version of 2TB drive: 2002 FAEX for evaluation.Last time when I reviewed the WD Red series, it made a good impression especially when it comes to temperatures during load. It makes a lot more sense to go for such drives when you...
Well, its not the fastest drive when it comes to boot and long transfers, so this drive is suited...
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Western Digital has a new 4 TB flagship. Its WD4001FAEX is part of the company's Black family of performance-oriented drives. Spinning at 7,200 RPM, it might seem at home in a high-end desktop, but our numbers suggest it might fare better in a server. W...
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...
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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...
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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...
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