- По- началу стоил дороговато, в моем понятии. Но сейчас цена вполне приемлима.
Давно положил глаз на эту модель, но принципиально терпеливо выжидал пока цена снизится ниже 5 тысяч рублей.) Сейчас и у меня такой винт...
НаноПилигрим-2CIGS
29.11.2010
10/10
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+ Скорость до 145 мб/сек в начале. В конце около 75. В среднем 106. Примерно две трети пространства читаются выше 100. Шум в простое неожиданно низкий.
- При позиционировании хрустит заметно. Но это же серия Black, ему положено :) Вполне в духе серии: работает быстро в ущерб тишине.
По сравнению с моим стареньким Seagate...
Синтрон-0AMOP
22.12.2010
10/10
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+ Ёмкий, быстрый, нешумный
- не замечено
WD 2001 FASS один из лучших винтов: ёмкий, быстрый-мой экземпляр 151,3 Мб/c в начале, 74,8 Мб/c в конце теста HD Tune. среднее значение 120. вибрации и нагрев...
Зета-Орион-8CZKK
29.11.2010
6/10
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+ 2тб, скорость.. и как думал надежность как перешел на ВД ни один не подвел
- первый умер через 15 минут после вклучения... второй работает журчит почетче более...
Аргонавт-9BZVK
01.11.2010
10/10
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+ Быстрый, недорогой. Боюсь перехвалить, но пока вызывает положительные эмоции. Да, гарантия 60 месяцев!
- Шумный, звук считывающих головок (при торрентах их постоянное похрюкивание...), сравнение идет с двумя WD500 Green и WD1TB Blue, стоящими рядом в боксах. Больше недостатков и нет.
Куплен за 5300, что неплохо для такого винта.
ТерраБот-7WKET
03.08.2010
10/10
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+ Практически бесшумный, лишь немного шелестит во время активного использования. В условиях аномальной московской жары при температуре дома +32 градуса рабочая температура диска +42 градуса в корпусе с передним...
Плазмонавт-6MTSR
15.08.2010
10/10
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+ Отличная модель, но он грузит не тихо
- долгий отклик при включении компа
до этого стоял seagate baracuda 7200.11 1.5tb но он стал сыпаться бедами...
Аэронавт-3JLIQ
25.06.2010
10/10
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+ ёмкий, тихий, довольно быстрый 100+МБ/сек на копировании больших файлов (обычно около 130), нормальный винт без извратов
- не самый дешёвый вариант
Выбора...
Лунатик-4TRZY
13.12.2023
10/10
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Отличная модель
+ Служит уже ровно 10 лет, сейчас уже просто как запасной, но тем не менее. Думаю, этим всё сказано.
- Со временем начал чутка громко шуметь, но шумит терпимо.
Интеллектор-3MXGM
15.01.2010
6/10
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Плохо
WARNING: in certain RAID configurations these WD desktop series drives will frequently get flagged FAILED due to Western Digital - specific issue with TLER setting causing conflict as to whether error handling should be undertaken by the hard drive or by the RAID controller. Please parse search string "TLER" on Wikipedia for more information. Parse words like "TLER locked raid failure" (without quotes) into Google and it will return countless links to PC forum threads on this matter.Yes, I do acknowledge Western Digital, like most HDD manufacturers, does NOT endorse their desktop (non "enterprise") series drives such as the Caviar Blacks for use in RAID configurations. For RAID use, they assume the HDD will see heavy duty cycle in an "enterprise" (file server, or similar) environment, so for RAID use they push you to their much HIGHER COST drives on basis they have designed those with higher reliability (such as improved MTBF) required for enterprise duty cycles. However, home PC "enthusiasts" have generally had no significant reliability problems in using desktop series drives (from other manufactures!) to create RAIDs for typical home PC environment - assuming here home use means a VERY LOW DUTY CYCLE compared to an "enterprise" (file server, or similar) 24x7 environment.However, Western Digital has now moved from merely "advising against" to now somewhat maliciously LOCKING the TLER feature as DISABLED making the HDD INCOMPATIBLE (= very unreliable) when used in certain RAID configurations. They did this to FORCE you to use only their expensive enterprise series drives for any RAID.Western Digital burned us, sometime in late 2009, when they abruptly changed the firmware so that all versions of these drives now shipping have the Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER) setting permanently LOCKED with TLER READ and TLER WRITE both set as DISABLED, so the WDTLER.EXE utility no longer works to toggle TLER to ENABLED. In order to use these drives in a RAID you want to set TLER to ENABLED, but you can no longer do that by any method.Western Digital never warned anyone of that firmware change, and doesn't even include a packing slip with the drive warning us these drives can no longer be used in RAID.If you dig and dig, you'll eventually find buried in obscure area of the WD website their warning:"Western Digital manufactures desktop edition hard drives and RAID Edition hard drives. Each type of hard drive is designed to work specifically in either a desktop computer environment or a demanding enterprise environment. If you install and use a desktop edition hard drive connected to a RAID controller, the drive may not work correctly...."This is reported to affect ALL of their desktop series drives (shipping late 2009, or later).With my PC, the frequency at which these drives would get dropped from my RAID was also influenced by my operating system setup. Initially, I configured my RAID using motherboard-based Intel® X58 / ICH10R with Intel Matrix Storage Manager; however, the problem was NOT that I was using such a "software motherboard-based" RAID. Apparently what made the Caviar Blacks drop from the RAID on a weekly basis was that for unrelated reasons, I had installed Vista 64-bit with a Mandarin language support configuration that for some reason prevented certain key MS updates from installing.When I did properly reload Vista so it picked up all the key updates, then the frequency of dropped drives was much lower (less then once a month) for Caviar Blacks. Plus I soon went to Windows 7 64-bit. Still there were dropped drives.So now I'll tell what completely eliminated issue of RAID mistakenly marking HDD's as FAILED due to this TLER error handling conflict:SOLUTION: I replaced all my desktop series Western Digital Caviar Blacks with Hitachi's desktop series Deskstar 7K3000, choosing the 2TB model of the 7K3000 series : HDS723020BLA642. Problem solved.And for you RAID purists who are going to flame me for using software-based RAID: yes I did eventually reconfigure for hardware RAID, in my case buying the LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8iIn closing, I'll share a very surprising Lessons-Learned I experienced in web-researching HDD reliability: the perception of HDD reliability versus manufacturer you'll get from a SURFACE browse through web forums is nearly OPPOSITE of what you'll learn from a very thorough fact-based read of objective reports on this subject.THIS is the kind of study you should read: [...]Yes, that's just one data point, but it is a VALUABLE data point because of the large sample size set of field return data. Next go surf the web and find another half dozen real world large sample studies just like that. That's what I did. What you'll find are strong CONSISITENCIES between completely unrelated independant studies in terms of how they ranked HDD manufacturers on actual real world use HDD failure rates. You parse those consistencies across those large sample studies, now you are finally cutting through the
Небулоид-5UGFO
26.07.2009
10/10
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UPDATE August, 2010:I am amending my review for the WD Black 1TB 32MB Cache "Firmware Rev 05.00K05" HD's tonight because I've been quietly buying masses of them from Amazon.com, a total of 60+ of them through my account and my company account since I wrote this review, into August 2010, and the packaging at Amazon.com has improved 100% in the past year, so much so that all recent HD's have been sent in new, clean, strong HD-specific boxes with "T-Mount Fittings" for HD suspension, a box within a box, with air bladders, without fail in all my recent shipments. This adequately packages the HD's for transport, and I see no reason to continue to call Amazon.com down on its shipping practices for OEM HD's, as they have learned their lessons well it turns out and remedied the shipping problems with their OEM HD's 100% in 2010.This isn't to say things couldn't be improved because they can be improved: Amazon.com could use foam inserts in the boxes to protect against static electricity and other impact damages which the hard cardboard mounting doesn't protect against, so please take note of that idea also...it is encouraging to see the good packaging, however, with all recent Western Digital Black 1TB HD shipments, and Amazon.com is to be commended for changing its ways and trying to do the customer right with adequate packing for all HD shipments in 2010, at least with my accounts it's improved to this status. This should be noted by people reading this review and others that were critical of Amazon.com packaging of OEM HD's in the past, especially 2009, a year where Amazon.com didn't fare well with criticism from most customers about their OEM HD packaging and protection during shipments.In addition there has been a post above where one person is commenting about WD changing the firmware in the OEM WD Black HD's to make them incompatible with RAID use, and that is patently false, and is NOT TO BE BELIEVED! All WD Black 1TB HD's that I have been purchasing this year, and last year, are 100% compatible with RAID arrays, any sort of RAID array, and with hardware RAID controller use, as I have built many systems this year utilizing WD Black OEM 1TB RAID setups, with and without hardware RAID controllers, and they are 100% compatible, no disclaimers necessary at all for that fact, and any claim to the contrary cannot be believed. PROVE IT TO ME if you want to publish such commentary, because up to now that whole idea is just plain uninformed, misconceived thinking, and it needs to be taken down from this web site because people will believe stupid claims like that, given the chance.Wavey Davey - August 23, 2010____ _____ _____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ _____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ___ ___ ___ ___I have been waiting to review my six (6) WD Black 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 2 HD's because I wanted to establish a track record with them, a baseline, since I am using them in two distinctly different RAID mediums. In any case, the SATA HD's are working fantastic in RAID 5 and RAID 0 for me and my newest PC build. Let me digress a little and I'll rate the HD's after I tell you how I am using them.I have four (4) in a FirmTek SeriTek 2eEN4 4-Bay HotSwap RAID Enclosure as my primary "write-to" HD system for video and sound projects, in a RAID 5, so total space available in RAID 5 is 3TB. A RAID 5 uses speed and redundancy so it's an ideal medium for film or audio, as it "saves" one HD as a "spare drive" in the array, just in case of a single HD failure, and will replace that failed drive with the "saved" drive instantly so that you never lose data, or hardly ever. You'd have to have 2 HD's out of the 3 fail to lose data with RAID 5, at least in theory this is the case.The RAID 5 is connected to an Areca 1680IX-8 SAS to eSATA/SATA Hardware RAID Controller in the PC, and it's got a rudimentary installation of Vista 64-bit Ultimate on it to make it bootable, also. That's correct, I can boot the PC externally using the RAID 5 if necessary, and I do when I am building a film project from scratch if you must know the application's benefits. The RAID 5 writes at more than 405MB/sec, and reads at more than 430MB/sec with an empty volume to give you some perspective on "Hardware RAID" versus software, or system-bus RAID on an internal volume, so there is quite a benefit with the Areca 1680IX-8 controller in place.The second use for my WD Black SATA 2 HD's is as the boot system for the PC 90% of the time, as I have two (2) of the HD's mounted internally in the PC, still pushed by the Areca controller for hardware RAID 0 inside the case also. I have all of my main applications like Photoshop CS3, Illustrator 11, etc+ my web browser, Outlook, Mail, on this HD system, as it suffices to drive the PC most of the time, but for when I use the external RAID 5 and am involved in a film project. The 2TB RAID 0 (c.1.8TB formatted) gets your attention right away, as it's much faster than a system bus RAID 0 could ever be with the hardware cont
Кронос-6WEHW
12.04.2013
10/10
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WD blacks are hands down the champ of 1 TB drives for gaming and fast loads. It's not as fast as some other drives out there, but it's a great value and these drives are very reliable.
МехаРейнджер-9AVZF
10.07.2010
10/10
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This highly advanced and high performance 2 TB Western Digital performs extremely well so far. The most unique feature of this drive is the off platter parking and locking when powered down. With this feature, the platters are not likely to suffer shock damages from the heads pounding from rough handling while being shipped. Speaking about shipping, Amazon.com as well as many other online retailer should do a better job of packaging OEM hard drives for shipping. My drive was shipped double boxed with the outer box slightly larger with an airbag pillow on one end. The inner box appear to be supplied by Western Digital with two plastic cushioning inserts on the ends and does appear to be adequate. The outer box practically does not offer any more protection from shock damages. The outer box should have been large enough to be fitted with some foam cushioning all around. The other desirable feature that this drive has is that it has dual processors and dual activators for the heads for precise tracking. The secondary activator utilizes piezoelectric technology to really fine tune in on the exact track on the platter quietly. This of course improved performance somewhat.I purchased this hard drive to use for additional storage on my computer. Because of the high-performance nature I feel this hard drive also makes an excellent boot drive for Windows. Of all the hard drive I ever purchase, it also produced the least amount of vibration when on. It's about as quiet as my Seagate hard drives. The only difference is that it makes the clunk sound occasionally when powered down when the heads park and lock. I'm paranoided from experience with my last two Seagate hard drive purchase that had growing reallocated section count shortly after placed in service. To make sure that I have a sound drive, right after installation I ran Western Digital's own Data Iifeguard For Windows to check for bad sections by running the complete surface scan. This software can be downloaded from Western Digital website. . I also ran a surface scan on this drive using HD Sentinel Pro. Both tests passed with no problems.Final thoughts: Because this Western Digital is better engineered than any of my previous hard drive, my hope is for longtime reliability. So far I'm fully impressed with the performance I have been receiving. When I ran a benchmark, the maximum read speed was almost 140 MB per second and the minimum was around 70 MB per second. Take for example when transferring files from one hard drive to another. I did an experiment on copying files on copying files from my old storage drive to my new drive. When the file is copy single file at a time the speed remains almost full of around 100 MB per second. But when I copy two files at the same time, the speed chokes down to around 25 MB per second for the two files. I try again on copying two files accept at this time, one file gets copied to the new drive and the other file is copied to my boot drive. The speed also get choked down again to around 25 MB per second for the two files. This proves in a way that the bottleneck is on my old storage drive.I tried this transferring test again except the new drive is the source this time. I copied one file to my old storage drive as well as copying another file to my boot drive at the same time. Only this time the speed remains the same on whether I copy one file or copying two or more files at the same time. The transfer speed remains close to 100 MB per second whether copying one file or two files at the same time.
Спектроник-1BFSK
20.12.2012
8/10
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Works as I expected - but takes a while to wake up from sleeping. That could be because it is 2TB, or because it is the Green, low power, version. It works though and has been able to hold my media library. It is a great solution and I have been happy with it.I do wish that the warranty was longer though. 1 year just isn't quite enough that I have warm fuzzies with this drive.
Синтрон-7EDTZ
26.01.2013
10/10
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I take HDD quality very seriously. It's my data at stake. WD is my drive of choice. The price is right and the quality is high. You can get drives in the WD line that will match your durability to price needs.
Гиперион-2XJFG
14.01.2013
10/10
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Purchased a few years ago, had no problems since. Works fast and great space for the money. Totally would recommend on a budget build
НоваГость-7IQQL
04.01.2013
10/10
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ALWAYS HAD BEST LUCK WITH WD HD. NEVER HAD ANY ISSUES AND THIS ITEM IS STILL BEING USED TODAY WITH GOOD RESULTS.
ТехноНаблюдатель-2JUMI
23.12.2012
10/10
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I USE WESTERN DIGITAL HARD DRIVES 90% OF THE TIME, SPECIFICLY THE BLACK DRIVES. I HAVE FOUND THESE DRIVES (BLACK) TO BE VERY DURABLE.
Эксопилот-0AEKI
31.12.2010
10/10
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Got this to work with my other identical item. Doubled storage speed and increased read performance a bit (maybe 20% so far but I'm not sure if there's more I can do to tweak). On RAID 0: make sure you have the correct RAID drivers. I clearly identified "WIN 7" as my OS but Asus gave me plenty of non-Win 7 drivers to choose from so I went with the first/most recent which ended up being WRONG. Wasn't a big deal but it ate up a few hours as I tried to follow the procedure with the wrong drivers and with a 300Gig image to transfer... there goes a few hours. The Win 7 procedure is okay-ish but plenty of opportunities to botch it: Make recovery disk, make image backup of data (kept mine on an external HDD), tell your Bios you want RAID, configure your raid (ctrl+F1 i think... it tells you when you boot up), boot from recovery, option to restore from image, install drivers, pick the RAID drivers from your storage location (again had mine on a USB drive, thumb this time) in my case I had two drivers and a RAID console... installed all three no problem. With the first set of WRONG drivers I had it gave me like 50 drivers to chose from... it took forever to do whatever it was doing and gave no indication that it correctly installed so I went on to install the rest just to see what would happen and I would get an error message. when I got the correct drivers there was still no indication of "successful install" but I never got an error message and there was only three to choose from instead of 50 so I felt a lot better), Okay, where were we... yes, now just continue to load the image with all your files/settings and VOILA, DONE!! SIMPLE, right!?!? lol.. anyways it works, just a few steps to follow. I'm sure everyone's experience is a little different. I can't tell you how happy I was to walk back into my room and see that my computer had rebooted itself and all my desktop clutter/i-net favorites and everything else was right back where it should be but now on a 1.2 TB RAID array instead of 640GB... well, that's partially true... the drives were there but I had to go right click on "Computer" from start menue and then select "manage" and adjust settings in the disk managment section... Yeah... WOOHOO more crap to do! Well after clumsily Googling and a few head scratching moments and actions that didn't work... I think I ended up extending a drive or something and then VOILA went from 640GB to 1.2 TB. No data lost, no complete reinstall of Win 7. Just an awesome nerd experience for me to share. YES!!!
Сириус-9UIVY
29.11.2012
10/10
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This drive is just like brand new I am going to install it in my iMac when I put it into service as a household server.
НаноРейдер-0LHSZ
08.07.2011
10/10
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I bought this 1.5 years ago and so far have had no issues with it. Performance is pretty good, though it is a tiny bit noisy. HD Tune Pro says that the default AAM setting is 128 (low noise) - but on a performance drive how could that be? It must be reading it wrong. I set it to 254 (high performance) anyway. It makes quite a bit of difference. This drive does make some noise at times when randomly seeking (ex. booting Windows), and I can hear it even though it's in my mid-ATX case that's under the desk. Otherwise, aside from the motor running (and that's not much, it might be my Samsung drive), I can barely hear it.This drive runs a bit hotter than my Samsung, but I believe that one is not meant for performance, which this is. Right now it's 76F or so in here and the WD is at 39C, and the samsung is at 33C. I have the os and programs on the wd though, just some files on the samsung. That's a little odd though, given the Samsung is on the top drive bay and this WD is on the bottom (one free bay inbetween them).Given the luck I've had with WD drives, I'm expecting this to last for quite a while. Of course, the 5 year warranty should help if I ever have an issue.Although SATA 2 is typical, I'm really not sure why they bother given a spinning hard disk cannot saturate the bandwidth of SATA 1 (in theory anyway).Anyway, this is a good drive and I'd definitely buy another one if I needed it (maybe higher capacity though). $70 for 640GB isn't too great when you can get 2TB drives for less than $100. They are significantly slower drives though. I bet the $80 WD Caviar Green 2TB doesn't compare with performance.
ТехноНаблюдатель-4ATDK
10.05.2012
4/10
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Okay so i received my hard drive in the mail today, and it was packaged in a small priority Envelope, once single piece of packing paper around it for shielding. Really you couldn't spend 1.50 more and get a small box and pack it better. your shipping a HARD DRIVE!!!they are very temperamental, you cant ship them like that without the proper packing...Im just flabbergasted that you really sent me my hard drive like this. i am really amazed. Other than that i will try out the hard drive tonight or tomorrow to see if it works. i hoping for the best.
Спектр-3ETAS
11.05.2011
8/10
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I have been looking for a pair of drives (primary/clone) for an aging server for preventive maintenance purposes. The server is 5 or 6 years old and has been running without issue having a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 80GB 8MB cache 1.5Gb/s SATA (SATA-150) system drive. There have not been any issues whatsoever, yet with drive prices declining, capacities increasing along with performance it seemed like a no-brainer to upgrade/replace the drive. I leaned towards WD Black because I need reliability and performance - again, this drive seemed the obvious choice.Well, having cloned the old drive on to this one, we ran our application and experienced a performance drop. We had a 15% performance gain a few months back when we went from 2GB memory to 4GB. We lost that gain with this drive. Additionally the drive is significantly noisier than the old Maxtor - not an issue in our case since the server is in a location where there aren't any people, but if considering this drive for a desktop, be prepared.I'm hoping that the robustness/reliability will compensate for the performance loss we're now seeing. We'll probably let the drive go another few days and decide. Maybe we'll just stick with the old Maxtor and the clone we keep and find a different purpose for these black drives.I'm somewhat disappointed.Update 5/14/11 - raised rating to 4 star. Changed setting in Dell BIOS under HD Acoustics from Performance to "Let the drive decide" and got back the 15% performance drop we saw. Additionally drive is significantly quieter now, and performing faster. I was still hoping for a performance gain from the original Maxtor drive that was replaced. We'll see. For now, I'm happier.
Вояджер-0UUTD
07.03.2012
8/10
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I bought this drive to replace a Green version that started to fail after only a few months. I've only had it installed for about 3 days, I use it in a system that I built used mainly for casual gaming. It has an AMD FX 6100 processor, Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Motherboard, Kingston Technology Hyper X 8GB DDR3 memory and an ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card...It ran very well with the Green until it started to fail and now it seems a little choppy with this drve, not sure if it's the video card or the drive trying to keep up, all in all the drive is working good though
Небулоид-5KDSJ
27.05.2011
2/10
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This is probably the worst experience I have had with a PC component supplier in my 20 years building computers.Supposedly WD's flagship sku at the time of purchase last year, backed by a fancy 5 year warranty (which is terrible, read on) the 1TB Caviar Black died within a year of purchase despite light use (94% unused). I don't know about you but when one pays through the nose for a top end product, you expect it to last a little longer than this did. Btw, here's my rig: Corsair PS, 6GB Corsair tri-channel DDR3, i7 920/intel dx58so, Antec Solo case, Dual crossfire ATI 4870s. Bad **s, right? (I work in the industry, for a CPU chipmaker - not Amd!).It gets worse. I filed the RMA online with Western Digital, where one has to wait 7 days for pickup (can u believe!), and guess what, I am still waiting 30 days later for the pickup and still no word from WD. The moron at the call center asked me to wait till the RMA expires (after 30 days) and open a new one, wait another 7 days wait for pickup and further 3 weeks for the RMA process to complete, totaling my PC down time to 60 days! (Btw, the customer service manager refused to take my call when I asked for the matter to be escalated.)Can't believe these idiots stay in business.In summary, the Black's decent product performance was overshadowed by awful reliability, and even worse customer service. Never again will I buy or endorse WD. Save your time and buy Seagate or an Intel SSD. I will.
Эксопилот-8JUXI
08.03.2011
6/10
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2TB capacity, large cache, high performance, for under $200...actually almost $150 these days? Hard to believe.I gave it a try and bought 2 of them. They seemed good for 2-3 months, then I started to get SMART monitoring errors...hrm, ok well, they were in a s/w raid1 array and western digital claims the drives should not be placed in any raid configuration.OK - reconfigure the drives to run as single units and follow best practices/etc. Drive 1 dies a few weeks later. WD replaces it easily with a newer version w/ a much higher serial number (the original was very low so I might have gotten some of the first production batches).That drive is now running fine, w/o any real issues, although the SMART load_cycle_count has been increasing faster than it should which could be fixed for most controllers, but not w/ the 3ware JBOD controller I'm using. Hrm...well, it might fail a few years down the line and I'll deal with it then. WD does have a 5yr warranty.Drive 2 fails about 6 months after purchase. Monitoring picks up huge numbers of offline uncorrectable errors. This drive also had a very low serial number so it could have been suffering initial production problems. RMA'd easily. However, WDC sent out a "recertified" drive with a modestly low serial number and this drive is reporting errors within days of install.I have 5 of the WDC enterprise RE4 drives installed for ~6months w/o any issues (smart reports show wonderful health) and the only drives I've had issues with are the caviar blacks which are tending towards 150% failure rate... I'm going to try upgrading the SATA cable of the current problematic drive.Going forward, for WDC SATA, I'll only be buying the RE4's. No more caviar black.
Лунатик-2LQYU
12.09.2009
10/10
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Nothing I can say against this drive, ~$100 for 1TB and a caviar black at that.I have this on an ASUS Server board's Marvell RAID controller in a RAID 1 with another (identical drive) I had purchased previously from Newegg. Been great so far as my main data archive.-----------UPDATE----------------I've now used this drive in several different configurations since June 2009 when I originally wrote this review, and I'd like to supplement what I previously wrote. I'll probably be duplicating a lot of what other have written, but so what - my unique experience might help you with your situation (contact me with questions if you wish)First, general notes:This drive is fast, cool, and quiet. The only time I ever hear it is when it spools up from being asleep, and when its crunching on a particularly large file (or large series of files). Usually, my velociraptor (or NAS) drowns it out.Next, Pros and Cons:Pros:32 MB Cache, w/ Dual CPU - minimal use of my xeons to run this drivePrice per TB - falling every day5 Year Warranty - I can see this drive still working in 5 yearshigher density platter design - improves seek timeCons:Spool Up Time from power save - if I wanted a power saver I'd have bought a caviar GreenRAID - does not work well in RAID arrays (WD trying to sell more expensive RE versions)Bottom Line:So long as you know that you're getting a bulk drive (no cables or OEM packaging) and don't intend to try and do RAID arrays without working firmware magic, then this is an outstanding drive. The performance, reliability, and warranty make it a no-brainer purchase.If you want to do RAIDs, look at the samsung spinpoint raid drives or the deskstars (or spend the money to get the RE drives).If you want a power saver, go for a Caviar GreenIf you want more speed, then you're looking at setting up a RAID0, using a WD velociraptor, or using SSDsIf you think that your planned useage fits with the functionality of this drive, then go for it! You won't regret it!-------------------Configs and Notes------------------Workstation:ASUS DSEB-DG Server BoardDual Intel Xeon 52XX Dual Core CPUs (not a production chip)8 GB FBDIMM ECC Memory (DDR2 800)WD Velociraptor 300 GB 10,000 RPM SATA2PNY GTX 265Creative X-Fi Sound CardCorsair 1000W Power SupplyThermaltake Armor CaseUses of Drive:Configuration 1 - Software RAID1 on Marvell Raid controller on ASUS DSEB-DG mainboardConfiguration 2 - Hardware RAID1 on Synology DS 209 NASConfiguration 3 - Data drive on my main workstation (I sold its older brother)Config 1 notes - I discarded this usage because I was worried about my ability to rebuild the RAID array if a drive failed (or my motherboard). I had troubles building the array with the Marvel software, and was worried that in re-building I might lose all my data. Thus, I switched to a Synology DS 209 NASConfig 2 notes - these drives do NOT work well in a RAID1. Many have had this issue. Unfortunately I purchased mine AFTER WD changed the firmware to not allow RAID in their non-RE3 drives. Now, I've heard of a colleague successfully flashing the RE3 firmware onto this drive, but I have no idea how he did it. But, I simply purchased (2) Hitachi Deskstar 2TB drives for my NAS, and sold my second caviar black to a friend to subsidize the project (see my separate review of the hitachis)Config 3 Notes - Operating by itself (internal drive) is essentially what this was designed to do, and it does it well. The only con is the spool up mentioned - although it saves power, it takes about 15 seconds, which can be annoying
Сатурниан-2YEZB
03.04.2011
10/10
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I bought this Western Digital 750 GB Caviar Black SATA 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive for my MAC 21" Aluminum Intel. After 4-5 years of everyday use my old drive started going very WONKY on me. It wouldn't start up sometimes. It would take forever to do simple tasks, kept getting that dreaded beachball of death, etc. I did some research and realized my Drive was about to commit seppuku. I was already picturing my beautiful, trusted MAC on the curb by it's lonesome self waiting for the garbage truck! Someone said just install a new drive. I decided I wasn't going to pay somebody $100 to look at it, $300 for a new drive, another $100 to install it and wait 2 weeks for it to be done. I Youtubed it and learned how to install the drive myself and it only took a couple of hours to take out the old one and put the in the new. I also decided to up the RAM from 2 to 4 gigs and install a new internal clock battery.I figured I might as well do it since I don't want to take apart my MAC again. It works way BETTER and FASTER than the original drive that came with the machine. The drive is very quiet too. I feel like I have a new MAC for the price that I paid for the drive (free shipping too). People were complaining about the packaging of WD Drives but I think Amazon straightened that problem out with better and safer packaging. So far this Western Digital 750 GB Caviar Black works like a charm! If it lasts as long as my old one I will be very happy! Thanks Amazon, I've been buying from here for years now and I haven't had a single problem with you yet!
Пульсар-2GIHW
01.05.2012
10/10
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This is great hard drive. Probably the best for the money. Was simple to install and is performing to expectations. It arrived promptly and packaged safely in perfect shape. Very satisfied.
ХроноГость-3XBOT
31.12.2011
10/10
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I bought 2 of these from amazon themselves, I have them on 2 machines and are working great. But, here is what i don't understand. i bought them from amazon for $85 a piece, and now each costs over $250. This is just a year ago and its four times the price. Looks to me people are being taken for a ride. This is bad business model. Hardware price and cost of manufacturing keeps going down due to technological improvements and delivery system. But here we see Amazon is taking people for a ride or has the products become so costly? can't figure it out.
Квантум-0PHVB
12.10.2011
4/10
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The first FASS drive I bought from Amazon was dead on arrival in July, 2010. I contacted WD directly and they sent a replacement. Now it's Oct. 2011 and the replacement drive is about to die. I've noticed several other people say that their FASS drive died some time after the 1 year mark. WD just sent me the 2002FAEX drive instead of another FASS drive (thank goodness for the 5 year warranty). After reading some reviews it appears the drives have identical specs, but the 2002FAEX is a newer version of the FASS drive. I haven't installed the new drive yet so I can't comment on it. Based on my experiences I wouldn't recommend the FASS drive.FYI, if you don't know about Tom's Hardware please check it out. [...] They publish reviews on many components and the community responses to questions are excellent.
МехаРейнджер-8EHIL
07.05.2010
10/10
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I purchased the 2 TB drive to put in my late 2007 model iMac. The original drive hadn't crashed, I just ran out of room and the original 320 GB HDD just wasn't cutting it.I ordered this from [...] because the price they were offering ([...]) was outstanding, along with free shipping and no sales tax. I find it worthy to note that less than 24 hours after I purchased this, the price dropped by $3. I contacted buy.com about this and they refunded me the $3 difference--excellent service (and ensuring repeat business, I might add).The HDD arrived four days after I ordered it, on the earliest possible day in the given shipping window. The drive was packed very securely, with plastic supports keeping the bagged drive safe in its small box; the small box was shipped in a larger box filled with polystyrene. I had no issues with poor packing, and the drive was completely fine.Following some guides online, I was able to replace the HDD in my iMac fairly painlessly; the entire process took about an hour. If I had to do it all over again, I could probably do the swap within 30 minutes or less. I used my Snow Leopard upgrade disc to format the new drive (which took about 10 seconds) and restore my computer from a Time Machine backup I made just before the operation. The backup took less than four hours to move 250 GB of data from the backup drive to the new drive, and after a restart it appears to be a flawless copy.(For those who are interested, I removed the plist from the backup file preventing the backup of certain directories so that all of the data on my computer was preserved. I keep most of the non-critical cache files cleaned out, so it only added an extra 2 GB or so to the backup size.)This drive offers substantial improvements over the previous. The speed increase is dramatic (64 MB cache vs. 8 MB) and the noise level is certainly quieter than I had expected. Although the drive is louder than the previous drive (the clicking of the drive is more pronounced), it is only really noticeable when the room is silent. It runs a bit hotter than the previous drive, but that's to be expected for the performance gain.Since I've only had this installed for a couple of hours, I can't really grade the longevity. My previous experience with WD drives has been generally good, and the previous drive was able to sustain more than two years of heavy use none the worse for wear. I can only hope this drive enjoys the same long life, but the 5 year warranty is very reassuring.As soon as things have settled down I'll be using Boot Camp to set up a new Windows partition; we'll see how that goes.
Гиперион-5ABSO
17.08.2011
10/10
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From my experience with Western Digital, I loved the way I could access my data really fast with MASSIVE 64MB data cache permitting fastest read/write cycles known, critical for data backup and retrieval.I also bought this brand and model because I am confident of the way WD drives are made and last: they work!BEST. I have had others and have problems some time after.No fuss, or hard drive platter noise here. If you have problems be sure to backup to another media (CD, DVD, Blue-ray, Net Storage, as after some time - and no testing or maintenance - some drives may fail. I can personally state I have had 5 Western Digital Hard Drives in my PCs and only two failed - because of lightning or electronic defect, over the ten years I have built or designed my PCs. Other than this...PERFECT. Call or email WD Support and within a week, they we will exchange your drive. They have very helpful techs.In Windows 7 a 2TB drive formats out to ~1.8TB (taking ~1 hour to get done).
ХроноГость-1SCFF
01.04.2011
6/10
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I've only had this drive a month or so, so obviously I can't speak to long-term reliability or anything. Speed seems fine, but not awesome (really 7200PM is what most desktop drives were up until the "smartpower/intellipower" stuff came along, so this shouldn't surprise me). The 5yr warranty provides some comfort.I did encounter a problem with it already though, which is somewhat concerning, but may somehow be partly the fault of my system (a relatively new Core i7 desktop from Dell). Essentially it seems to have a problem waking up from a sleep state. I'm not sure if this has to do specifically with full-system sleep, or also selective sleep of the hardware (i.e. power down hard drives after 20 minutes of inactivity). I disabled the latter and stopped using the former and so far things are fine. But the drive would basically disappear often times after waking from full system sleep and only a full reboot would restore it. This would have affected by rating more but I'm not certain yet whether it has something to do with my system.Other than that issue it's been pretty solid, but it's a bit noisy. Certainly more so than my other drives (though not the loudest drive I've heard).Overall it's ok, and I think it accomplishes the goal for me which was to have a large amount of storage that was at least a bit faster than a "Green" drive. But I might buy a Seagate Barracuda next time...
Пульсар-8ZRWR
07.02.2012
2/10
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The WD2001FASS Western Digital Caviar Black 2.0. TB has let me down. Ive had drives fail before but i never lost this much data. Scary to think that so many others are having issues with this drive based on a QUICK SEARCH. Chkdsk failed, after formatting, chkdsk passed the drive. Didnt last long.
Сириус-1EAXT
25.07.2010
10/10
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I'm currently running 7 drives in my computer (a mix of 4 IDE's and 3 SATA's, using WD and Seagate among all of those). The latest of these is a 1TB WD Caviar Black hard drive running through a Vantec 6-port SATA II 150 PCi host card with RAID. After doing an exhaustive search of various Seagate and Western Digital drives in the 1, 1.5, and 2 TB range, I finally settled on this one because it appears to have the lowest failure rate out of most of the Caviar Green, Caviar Blue, and Seagate models I looked around at. I also took various reviews of the different models into account (on Amazon, TigerDirect, and NewEgg), not just technical specs.I was originally looking for one of the Seagate 1.5 TB drives, but after reading about the bricking issues with different models (Barracuda 7200.11, ES.2 SATA and DiamondMax 22 drives) which I believe has now been remedied with firmware fixes by Seagate last year?), as well as reading about a high number of failure rates (and thereby low ratings and quite low prices - I assume because of the high failure rates) for the 1.5 TB drives on TigerDirect, NewEgg, and Amazon, I finally decided to dig around for any kind of a more reliable drive. The 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black is certainly less in storage than 1.5 TB obviously, but the stability is what I needed with my work (audio mixing, graphics, and computer programming). I needed something that would hold up. And, when I saw the 5 year warranty, plus 399 reviews with 4.5 out of 5 stars here on Amazon, 4.5 out of 5 on TigerDirect (28 reviews), and 4 out 5 on NewEgg (2490 reviews!), that pretty well helped me make up my mind with this getting this drive. I've now had it over a month and it's doing good. Still wishing I could've gotten a 1.5 TB drive, but with the amount of problems I kept reading about with the Seagate drives right now (Seagate usually being my choice), I finally had to go with this one. I'm just not willing to trust the 1.5 TB's of *any* manufacturer right now for that matter. Info on this one is WD1001FALS, 1 TB, 3.0 SATA, Caviar Black, Western Digital.I also noticed that Western Digital has released a 6.0 SATA version of this drive, but I haven't read any reviews on it yet.
НаноРейдер-3ZHPV
08.12.2010
2/10
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I've bought this drive (640G) in 2009 as an exchange for seagate 500G which originally came with mydell desktop(Seagate becomes somewhat noisy and I also wanted a little bigger capacity.denote, that despite the noise, Seagate worked fine for 3.5 years and I never had any data loss/correctness problem with it).It turned out it was a BIG mistake ( I should have bought another Seagate).WDC, which I bought, worked OK for 1 year then I couldn't boot from it.Since it was under warranty, I called WD and they send me a replacement drive.Luckily I was able to connect a bad drive as a slave and salvage all the important data.Today, the replacement drive (which I have had for less then a year developed the problems: "Timeout waiting for IRQ" per Dell Diagnostic Suite.I called WD again and they are sending me second replacement.Representative told me they sending "re-certified" drives to replace bad ones under warrantyHe assured me "re-certified" are as good as new.I am EXTREMELY disappointed in this drive quality - 2 replacements in 2.5 year,each time I need to spent hours on diagnostics, salvaging data, reinstalling OSs etc.(I understand one can get wrong but two in the row !). I am consider myself very luckythat in both cases I can connect bad drives as slave and at least access them to get the data out.I'll never buy their product again.P.S. I need to mention that their customer service is good, no waiting on the phone, replacementsare send quickly ( they need credit card if you want advanced replacement - getting a new drivebefore sending them back an old one, while cc is not actually charged, this amount is sort "withheld" from your balance).But id doesn't cover for such quality problems with the drive itself.
Странник-9KLDN
10.12.2011
10/10
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This drive was the best I could find for ~$100 (Dec 2009). It's still performing flawlessly. It's a little noisy sometimes, but well worth it.To quote another reviewer (other site):"What happened in Thailand was a tragedy, and hopefully in 6-12 months, they will get everything back in order. Until then, be patient."
Аргонавт-1TAMS
18.06.2011
2/10
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I bought one of these new in early 2009. A few weeks ago, just before Memorial Day, the drive died. The drive will not spin up and even keeps the computer from booting if it's plugged in (it was configured as the D: drive). After searching on the web, I found several posts of people who have had the exact same problem. Seems that the board mounted outside the drive gets too hot and self destructs. WD does warranty the drive - but you still lose whatever data you didn't have backed up. For me that meant reinstalling every program I had, plus over a week of restore (thank god for Carbonite!). Even with this problem, I would have given the drive a better rating if WD made replacement boards available for these drives, or offered to repair the drive for users. But they don't. This also explains why you see so many vendors carrying refurbished drives for this model.
Странник-9XQZH
11.01.2012
2/10
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I bought five of these for a Drobo S. So far, the tech support folks at Drobo have told me that three of the five are defective and need to be replaced.
Спектр-6ZACY
21.10.2009
8/10
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Хорошо
Another word on the way AMAZON ships these drives...I am guessing that these little boxes they come in are the way AMAZON gets the OEM's from WD, probably giant pallets of them. Then the AMAZON people see brown boxes that look like they are ready to ship, so they send them out just like that. If you look at the boxes, there are stickers on them that will have you think these are just little boxes that Western Digital ship mass amounts of OEM drives in.NO WAY these boxes are ment to be stacked in a warehouse and shipped like that from these boxes, not with the minimal amount of bubble wrap they stick in there. THOSE 1 or 2 LARGE SIZE PLASTIC BUBBLES inside the box will be flat by the time it gets to you, and I'm telling you guys, if you think UPS or whoever is being used as shipper on these drives is being careful, your fooling yourself!...LOL!!!Call Western Digital yourself and ask them how high of a fall they build these drives to take, or the G-FORCE they are expected to withstand :) I sent 2 of these back to amazon because of this "SHIPPING PROBLEM", and went to NEWEGG insted, at least they understand that it's not ROCKET SCIENCE. I called and BEGGED AMAZON numerous times to get word to someone that these things are DELICATE, and please, if your going to leave them in those little boxes that AMAZON gets them in from Western Digital, at the very least PLEASE PUT THAT BOX INSIDE ANOTHER PROPERLY PACKAGED BOX FOR SHIPPING. All my calls and all my begging went unherd, and NO ONE AT AMAZON would get word to the shipping depts. of the various hubs they have, that you cant have a hard drive banging around in a box like that when UPS or is throwing these things around the way they do.I dont know about the rest of you folks, but let me tell you how I know when I get something at the front door from UPS....Take a book and throw it on the floor next to you, thats what I hear when UPS drops something off to me...lol! So, is it a surprise that you might get a DOA right out of the box?...NOPE!!! Should you be surprised if your drive works fine FOR A WHILE, then takes a dump? Shouldn't be surprised at all, not with the way AMAZON is shipping these and other hard drives.Look at it this way folks, if this were not an OEM, and it was inside a nice pretty colored box with print all over it, AMAZON would take that box and pack it inside another larger box, but since they are getting these drives already inside a small plain brown box, they pull them, slap a shipping label on it and off it goes to UPS's soccar feild...lolI love AMAZON most of the time, but this issue is really frustrating to me. If you don't want to take my word for it, then please call Western DIgital as I said. GO TO NEWEGG and buy your OEM drives from them, at least they wrap the darn things in 5 or so layers of PROPER BUBBLE WRAP. Otherwise, if you buy your new drive as an OEM from AMAZON, when it dies....DON'T SAY SOMEONE DIDN'T WARN YA :)
Интеллектор-0ZNEI
15.12.2011
10/10
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I bought two of these hard drives for my computer I built. They have been working great for over two years straight. I rarely ever shut off my desktop and these workhorses have been running great all of the time.
Сириус-8NQZN
02.10.2011
10/10
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I've had this drive for about 1.5-2 years and have not had any issues with it at all and I've been downloading, uploading, and torrenting like a madman. The drive is quiet and performs beautifully. I haven't done any official read/write tests but it seems to be just as fast as any other 7200 RPM drive. Add to this the generous 5-year warranty (which I wish was standard for all hard drives) and I'm completely confident and satisfied with my purchase.
Капеллан-2JKAG
10.12.2010
2/10
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Its not often that I take the time to write a review on a product, but I had to do it for this drive. I have been in the IT field for over 20 years and though I have seen it all.I purchased 3 of the 2TB Black drives in the last month. One here on Amazon and the rest, somewhere else. Out of the 3, 1 was DOA, 2nd died in 3 hours and the last, had so many bad sectors that WD's own software ran for 13 hours and it finally gave up and errored out. This is completely unacceptable in this day and age. How can they be releasing 3TB drives when they have huge issues with the 2TB offerings. It almost seems like they are having problems with the latest batch reading through some review on other sites. I also purchased a couple of the 640GB drives and these Im extremely happy with. Even the 2TB Green drives have been good to me. Out of the 8 that I purchased this year, only one had to be replaced, which I consider acceptable.Thankfully, WD's RMA process is painless, but there is a catch. When you receive your replacement drive, it only comes with a 90-Day Warranty. WD, can explain this to me. How can you reduce the warranty on this drive from 5 years to 90 days when its your QC issues that are causing this high of a failure rate that makes the IBM Deathstar look good.If you are looking for 2TB drives that will not be used in a RAID environment, check out the 2TB Green drives, or even Hitachi.
Странник-4UHAR
13.12.2010
10/10
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Bought this drive April 20, '09. I first installed it in an upgraded Mac G4. Since the older G4 Macs used ATA-100 IDE drives, it required installation of a SATA card in one of the PCI slots, which was a Seritek 1S2. This allowed me to exceed the 128 GB size limit due to the G4's design and address the full capacity of this drive (larger IDE drives can be used in old Macs, but the extra capacity is not recognized). The combination of this drive and the SATA card was great and well worth it. Never a problem. The drive proved to be faster, and nearly totally silent. A couple of months back I pulled the drive from the G4 and moved it to a late model dual processor G5 PowerPC, with native SATA support on the bus. I had to do nothing except boot the machine, and I was in business. The drive has proven to be totally compatible, and continues to run quietly and fast. A great value for the price. I've seen other reviews here mentioning packaging: this is a valid complaint. Hard drives need to be handled carefully and packaged well. I'm thinking a lot of failures might be traced back to inadequate packaging and rough handling. Manufacturers are very specific about this. Foam (as described in their packaging instructions), not peanuts or air bags, or other approved shipping containers, must be used to maintain the warranty when shipping the drive.
Астрон-5SWXM
25.01.2011
10/10
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Великолепно
So far I have used many hard drives from many manufactures including Seagate, Hitachi, WD, Samsung. When I first ordered my Gateway FX6801, it came with 1TB Hitachi hard drive. Although it had 700RPM speed, the disk access was slow, noisy and the booting time it used to take was more compared to Caviar Black hard drive that I am currently using. Post booting, I can now immediately access the Windows 7 desktop after Hitachi hard drive was replaced with WD Caviar Black. Otherwise, I had to wait for a minute at least.I wanted to tell this that after I did the above change, my PC is now fast enough to run CS4, Maya, Sonar8.5, Reason4, MS Office, Sony Vegas9.0 without any issues. No hang ups, no waiting nothing. I am very impressed with these hard drives performance. Last week when I had to order the hard drives for my new Synology DS410 NAS, I ordered two of these drives without even thinking any other drives. These are pricey but worth every penny that we pay. I stream blue ray quality movies (tried Grown Ups) over the network on my Vizio HD TV, Wow!!! I love the performance. If you want reliable, fast and quietest hard drive, go for these without any hesitation. You will never regret. Five stars *****
Интеллектор-8GJIC
07.07.2010
10/10
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This hard drive came basically loose in a box and was rattling around. Upon opening the box I found another box. Inside the second box was a hard drive that was basically loose. The second box was constructed in a way that, if it had been made of quality materials may have held the hard drive securely. But because of the cheapness of the construction, it had completely failed (tiny cardboard tabs were supposed to be in tiny slots but weren't) thereby releasing the hard drive so that it could bounce freely around in every direction with every drop or bang.I will *not* consign 2 terabytes of data to a drive that has been shipped improperly and outside of Western Digital's shipping specifications. Hard drives consist of moving parts that must operate at high speeds for years with only microns of tolerance. The *last* thing a hard drive needs is to be banged about for days in a poorly packaged box. I will never buy a hard drive from Amazon again unless it is a retail drive that has been packed securely by the manufacturer.I have no choice but to return the drive in the same crumby box it came in. This means that Amazon, after they receive it, will then ship this drive which has traveled in two directions back to some customer (possibly you) for whom it will probably fail.There is a retailer (with two zs and an f in its name)that ships hard drives properly in a secure foam insert which surrounds the drive on all six sides. They are a little more expensive than Amazon, but at least if there is a problem with the drive..it won't be because of negligent shipping practices.BTW, almost *all* of the large online retailers participate in this folly. Anytime you read reviews of a drive and see lots of DOAs *and* complaints about the packaging you can put two and two together.Oh....also.....I have one of these drives I ordered from the retailer who ships them properly and it is a great drive!
Сатурниан-9JLSS
28.11.2011
2/10
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Never had a problem with WD hard drives, but this 640GB Black would not allow OS to load. Went with another 1T this time and it worked flawlessly...
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