I bought one of these some time ago and after two months of light use it stop working. The First month it was ok. then it start to do some noise and slow a bit the transfer rate, some times it did work and sometimes did not. and two month later it stop working. I am very disappointed with WD, but some people says theirs has no problem, so i just had bad luck. Good Luck, i hope yours works fine.
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08.02.2010
10/10
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Performs great, isn't loud, isn't too hot. Simple as that. If you consider the caviar blue, just go black. It's not louder in my opinion and has better performance. I recommend against the green as they have a loud screech sound that I couldn't tolerate.
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14.09.2009
8/10
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Хорошо
In the current age of digital media a large hard drive is an absolute must. I've now replaced the hard drives in my current desktop computer 3 times and it hasn't been due to failed drives. This drive is 4x larger than the one it replaced and it clearly outperforms it on all levels. I was concerned with the overall speed of the drive due to it's size, however, I realize that I had nothing to worry about. The drive was easy to install and performs extremely well. The only issue I had was assoicated with Western Digital's unique connection cable. I wasn't sure if I needed the cable or not and ordered one anyway (turned out I didn't need it). This is a great drive at a reasonable price. I would highly recommend and I'm presonally debating purchasing a 2nd.
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30.11.2009
8/10
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Very good affordable fast drive but Amazon should be ashamed of how they shipped it to me. It was just floating around a box with no protection and of course the monkeys as fedex delivered the box in almost crushed condition. No bubblewrap, no eggshells just a hard drive bangin around a big box that was treated as a volleyball by fedex. I really was expecting to have to ship it back thinking it must be broken, but its been a+ since installed. Very impressed with the speed of the drive.
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25.02.2009
10/10
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The Caviar Black model of drives differ in three ways from Blue in three major ways:1) 32MB buffer vs 16MB. This means the drive is overall faster because it can store more data in memory local to the drive. So if you access the same data frequently there is little or no drive access to get at the data.2) Dual processors vs single. This will alleviate the load on your CPU as the drive itself has more processing power locally.3) Five year warranty vs three. Five years is a lifetime in hardware. Basically, you're covered for longer than you will most likely use the drive.The Caviar Black line comes in three four sizes; 1TB, 750GB, 640GB, and 500GB. The 1TB and 640GB are the fastest because they use a denser platter technology which allows the drive head to get at the data quicker. The 750GB and 500GB are no slouches though and the differences in speed will not be noticeable to most people under most real-world usage scenarios.Caviar Black drives are the fastest affordable consumer drives available today. If you want faster you have to look that the VelociRaptor 10000RPM line of drives but expect to pay a lot more for a lot less storage.I measured the speed of the 750GB model using the HD Tune utility and access time was a fast 12.5ms with less than 1% CPU usage on my 3.2Ghz Intel Quad Core setup. The drive runs cool at 32°C in my system and is quiet. Overall a great drive at a great price. You can't really go wrong.
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17.02.2010
10/10
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Very easy to integrate, I use a SATA/150 PCI card in an older Dell Dimension tower. After formatting the disk, it was ready for use. Very happy with this 1TB Hard Disk. It has an excellent record from users. - LF
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18.02.2010
4/10
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The drive installed easily. Formatted easily. But it is much more noisey than my original Western Digital. All I could think of is the old SCSI drives. I don't know if it's defective. Would like to try another.
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21.10.2009
10/10
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This drive is fast and reliable(so far) quiet and runs cool. Not much else you can ask for from a hard drive. I find it interesting how much hard drive companies change, seagate used to be the best with western digital 2nd and maxtor a distance 3rd. Then samsung got into it and quickly rose toward the top while seagate got much less reliable. Right now though I think when you take into account everything, western digital is definitely the best. Especially these black drives, probably a little slower than the raptors but not that much and they don't cost that much more than the competitors it's a no-brainer.
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30.11.2009
10/10
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Bought this "black" series because it is a dual processor based higher end drive, It works as promised is fast 7200RPM and quiet and athough it is not the low power model it draws less than 10W according to specs so it should work with all systems. As a tech I lose a whole day rebuilding data and OS when a drive fails so the extra $10-$50 dollars spent on the black series is worth it to me. And you get a 5 year warranty (2 additional years for the extra money)
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16.02.2010
6/10
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First one arrived DOA, but Amazon sent me a replacement in just 2 business days. Put it into my computer and it worked just fine. Only gave it 3 stars because I had to send the first one back.
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25.01.2010
6/10
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I've been using 2 of these drives for the past 2 months, I haven't had any problems but the drives are noisy like back in the old days. The 32 MB cache doesn't seem to be any better of a performer than a 16 MB cache, I was a little disappointed thus the missing stars.
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30.11.2009
8/10
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I ordered 2 of these and they shipped from 2 different warehouses. I am happy to report both drives where packed very good in the boxes.I was a little aprehensive to order these from Amazon due to all the reports of bad packaging.I have to say the performance of these drives is not what I'd hoped for.The next HD I buy I will probably try another brand. In the windows 7 Performance rating I'm only getting a 5.9 which is the lowest score in my system
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10.03.2010
10/10
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very good price for the storage amount, has not given me any problems at all. Was very easy to install.
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26.02.2010
10/10
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Another great drive from WD. No problems yetHighly recommended to anyone looking for a top driveI can't complain! I'd definitely do it again ;)
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05.02.2010
8/10
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I always considered Western Digital drives a dependable and affordable product. I used this purchase to more than double my backup storage for a very low price. It has only been a couple of months but no problems.
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08.11.2009
10/10
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Installed in a Linux workstation. As with other HD manufacturers, WD uses metric units, meaning that the drive has an unformatted capacity of 1000GB. In my system, formatted capacity is 917 GiB (binary). The work I do is very read/write intensive, and the drives will often see almost continuous use for a week or more. No problems after a month: noise levels are well below the background of the (admittedly noisy) system; temperature seems acceptable. If you are using RAID you should buy the raid-edition drives
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21.10.2009
10/10
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I've only had these WD's for a week and a half but they're working well in my 4-drive NAS system and pass full SMART tests every night. My main comment is that each came in satisfactory packaging, a specific cardboard box with two soft molded plastic end caps. Love Amazon & Prime.I originally purchased 4 Seagate 1.5 TB drives locally but returned them since the outer packaging part number was misleading and didn't match the drives inside, which have a notorious failure rate. They're the ones with the '341' in the part number.. avoid them, your data is too precious to risk.
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13.02.2010
10/10
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Used Acronis Ture Image and cloned Windows 7 Ultimate + data from a 1 TB to this monster drive. Flawless clone, drive is fast, well done WD! I see ordering 2 more in the near future.
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09.11.2009
8/10
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Got a great price for the performance and capacity of this drive from Amazon. Since the drive was an OEM version, it came with no software. Went to the Western Digital site and downloaded their special edition of Acronis True Image software to create a copy of my existing drive. I could not get this program to complete the copy on my system. WD support tried to help but I eventually went to a third party software to create my copy. The drive itself is fantastic, quick and quiet. Highly recommended.
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08.02.2010
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change my previous 360GB model for Q1 this change is excellent and the price is very low.cambie mi modelo anterior de 360gb por este de 1T y el cambio es exelente el precio es muy bajo.
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25.02.2009
10/10
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I have an application that needs very fast streaming reads, almost continually, over a multi-TB dataset. Write performance isn't that important, but straight-line speed and data integrity are. Oh, and it's cost-sensitive too. Good luck, right?I settled on a RAID 6 array of eight WD1001FALS disks connected to Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 controllers, housed in a RPC-4020 case. I plan to add another 2-4 disks in a month or two. Write performance isn't critical, so software RAID will do -- instead of spending a thousand bucks on a RAID controller, I'll buy some simple SATA controllers, an extra quad-core CPU, more RAM, and still have saved enough money to buy five more disks. At maximum write speeds, parity computation uses almost an entire processor core; of course, I have seven more. Turns out Core 2 chips are really good at parity computation, even RAID 6.Typical large file reads:3498999611 bytes (3.5 GB) copied, 6.04208 s, 579 MB/s3999941908 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 6.56308 s, 609 MB/sDespite being software RAID over dumb SATA controllers, performance is excellent. (For comparison, Gigabit Ethernet has a theoretical maximum speed of 125 MB/s.) Throughput often reaches 100 MB/s per disk.Really, I'm not sure you can go wrong with these drives. They're reasonably quiet, very fast, and don't run any hotter than their competitors. Sounds like a winner to me.
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18.02.2010
2/10
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First HDD I got was dead on arrival. Here's hoping the next one Amazon ships works. Otherwise I'm going to buy it elsewhere.
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18.10.2009
10/10
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I bought this a month ago, the drive is almost silent, no high grinding noise, i registered it at western digital and got 5 years warranty. great value for the price.The only thing i didnt like is the way its packaged, however, the drive is rock solid, chkdisk submitted no errors so im kinda happy it didnt get damaged due to poor packaging.P.S: Make sure to format it FULL FORMAT not quick format, the difference is FULL FORMAT will perform "check disk" as well and report any errors found, if you get at least 1 bad sector, make sure to RMA it.
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28.12.2009
10/10
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I bought this 640Gig Black Hard drive to speed up my loadtimes. I used it for my C: drive and noticed immediately how fast it loaded windows than my 250gig Sata drive. Also my games loaded about 30% faster now. So I think it was a very good investment over a Green or Blue version of this drive.
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