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1. #WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR BLACK 2TB INTERNAL HARD DRIVE INSTALL#
2. #WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR BLACK 2TB INTERNAL HARD DRIVE PC#

That is, until I realized that its $.15 per gigabyte cost is actually fairly competitive with that of other drives on the market the only difference is that this particular drive’s supersize capacity skews the upfront costs accordingly. I also admit that, at first blush, the 2TB model’s $299 price tag gives me pause. But even though I like the idea of consolidating my data under a single roof, I shudder to think what the costs to recover a ginormous 2TB drive might be if anything should go amiss. Such a high ceiling on capacity means that I no longer need to make choices about where I’m storing my data instead, I can better organize and consolidate my data across multiple subjects.

The storage fiend in me salivates at the thought of 2TB in a single 3.5-inch hard-disk drive. And WD’s NoTouch ramp-load technology keeps the recording head from touching the disk media. WDBLACK 2TB Performance 3.5' Internal Hard Drive - 7200 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB Cache Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache 3. IntelliSeek optimizes seek speeds to enable lower power consumption, noise, and vibration. IntelliPower, according to WD, adjusts the balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching algorithms for optimal balance between performance and power consumption. StableTrac reduces vibration by securing the motor shaft at both ends, and this in turn permits accurate head tracking during read and write operations. The 2TB drive has several WD technologies inside that the company says enable this model to achieve its balance of price and performance. On each of those tests, its results were off those of our performance leaders by a dozen seconds or less. For example, it completed our “write files and folders” test in 112 seconds and our “write large files” test in 92 seconds. On other core metrics, though, the 2TB drive performed very competitively.

#WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR BLACK 2TB INTERNAL HARD DRIVE PC#

Below you can see the other hardware used in our testing rig.This model lagged behind our performance leaders (the Western Digital RE3 Enterprise 500GB and the WD VelociRaptor) on some results–most notably, the write-intensive disk imaging test that we perform as part of PC WorldBench 6.

#WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR BLACK 2TB INTERNAL HARD DRIVE INSTALL#

While we've been unable to retest every drive and SSD that we've covered in the last nine months, we've made an effort to include the major players and more popular drives.įinally, we test hard disks in genuine real world circumstances, cloning an install of Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit onto the drive and then timing the resulting clean boot time before also timing Crysis level load times.Įach test is performed five times with the highest and lowest scores discarded and the remaining three results averaged, to help give an accurate finding. Older SSDs in particular suffer in the random write latency department, leading to the infamous "stuttering" effect as the disk lags. We've also now chosen to now include random read and write performance figures following requests from our forum members.

HDTach 3.040 gives us a good idea of theoretical drive performance, FC-Test’s intensive file transfer abilities let us see real world drive performance, and our GIMP image editing benchmark should tell us if the disk controller is unable to keep up with read/write instructions - something cheap SSDs are prone to, for example. To get a decent idea of drive performance in a variety of real world circumstances we test using a selection of different tools.

Test SetupTesting hard disks can be difficult, especially when using a hard disk intensive operating system like Windows Vista 64-bit - give it thirty seconds and it'll spin your hard drives up to defragment or index them, which isn't what we really want when we're trying to ascertain peak performance.