Are WD Black drives good?
WD Black is one of the more expensive options due to its high performance. The high speed and large cache have made it the drive of choice for both home and enterprise desktop applications requiring heavy computing such as audiovisual content creation, rendering, and gaming. It comes with a 5-year warranty.
What is WD Caviar Black?
The newest and highest capacity Caviar Black is a 3.5” 2TB 7200RPM model with 500GB platters and other Western Digital goodies like dual processors, dual actuators and technologies to optimize the drive for power consumption, minimal vibration and less wear to the recording head.
Is WD Black good for laptop?
In all, the WD Black 2 Dual Drive is an affordable dual-drive solution with ample space for both laptops and desktops, and is an excellent choice as a replacement drive.
Where are WD hard drives made?
At present Western Digital has three factories that produce hard drives: the largest one is located in Bang Pa-In (Thailand), the second largest one is situated near Kuala Lumpur in Petaling Jaya (Malaysia), and the smallest one is sited in Prachinburi (Thailand).
What is the best caviar hard drive?
The newest and highest capacity Caviar Black is a 3.5” 2TB 7200RPM model with 500GB platters and other Western Digital goodies like dual processors, dual actuators and technologies to optimize the drive for power consumption, minimal vibration and less wear to the recording head. Do all these features make for the best consumer-class hard drive?
How much power does a 2TB Caviar Black use?
The 2TB Caviar Black took a tradeoff between fast ready times and startup current with a slower startup time. This allowed the drive to limit the inrush power to just under 17 watts. To put this in comparison the Constellation ES and the RE4 used 27 watts and 24 watts respectively.
What is the difference between the Caviar Black and caviar Re4?
The 2TB Caviar Black has a 138MB/s transfer speed listed on its technical sheet. As you can see below the drive did come quite close to it but fell short by 5MB/s. On the other hand the 2TB RE4 has the same listed speed but surpassed it by 6MB/s. Write speeds were nearly identical down to the hundredth of a megabyte.