WD - Caviar Black 1TB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive for Desktops

Not to be too technical, you definately get what you pay for in this drive. It incorporates all the latest in harddrive technology. You can say this is one of the fastest, quietest, large capacity drive you can buy. For the technical side this drive averages between 84MB/s and 92MB/s in harddrive benchmarks. The metal plate you see in the picture is the dual mount point of the drive spindle to ensure super stable platter rotation for ultra precise reading and writing. I could go on but all you need to know is this is a great drive. I have attached a image of one the test results I did trasfering a 4.3 gig file from my main drive which consists of 4 western digital 36gig raptor 10k RPM drives in raid 0 on a 3ware 9650SE raid card going to the drive in the review. I'm impressed.

Win 7 told me my primary drive was failing, so I did an immediate backup. As I'd had a couple Seagate drives go South on me recently, I was disinclined to trust them with my main hard drive, again. So, I checked reviews and decided that WD Black could be trusted. Based on that, I found the closest BestBuy that had it in stock and went out into a snowstorm to pick it up. Got back to the office at 9pm and hooked it up to my machine. Though it appeared to connect and work, the machine was absurdly slow (must have been getting a ton of read / write errors). I thought it was my imagination and told it to restore. Next morning, the restore had failed. I ran some diagnostics against the drive, just in case. Sure enough, it failed a dozen ways from Sunday. So, I called BestBuy where they had ONE left in stock. I asked them to hold it, drove down, swapped it without issue, and came back. Plugging the new one in, it was a world of difference. The restore moved quickly and I'm back on my "feet." Meanwhile, I will mention that the WD 1TB Black drive is noticably louder than any other drive I now own (mostly Seagate). If you remember the drives from the late 80's where the voicecoils / arms were audibly obvious when they moved, you have an idea what I'm talking about. It's not offensive in my desktop case, just very clear when I'm doing a lot of transfers. In a way, I find it reassuring as I am confident that any change in drive health will be clearly audible.

I have bought dozens of WD Black drives and as usual, the 1TB drives offer the speed and silence needed for a modern computer. This one went into an All-In-One and I was a little worried about the heat, but it has proven to be a non-issue. Installation was easy, formatting was simple and overall, I am very pleased with the product... except... The warranty on the website is different than the one printed on the box for several models of WD and Seagate drives - not too big a deal, but one that can influence the purchaser... check the fine print if this is an issue for you. I needed this drive ASAP, so was willing to accept a shorter printed warranty period on the box and just hope WD will honor the 5 year warranty listed on the BB and WD websites if we have problems down the road. Not too happy with this given the dramatic spiral of HD reliability these past few years. Best Buy and Western Digital need to get together and figure this out! I've used WD drives for many years because they have done so well, I just hope the warranty thing is a misprint and not an indication that they are losing confidence in their own drives.

I was in desperate need for a replacement hard drive due to my factory hard drive encountering a nasty failure situation. After purchasing this hard drive and mounting it within my PC, I was up and running in a little less than an hour. The documentation provided with the hard drive was very helpful for someone not familiar with replacing the device. The hard drive has been stable in my machine for over a month now and no error messages or physical hardware ailments have been reported during my weekly scans. I would recommend this hard drive to anyone requiring a 1TB replacement or anyone looking to add an additional terabyte of capacity to their system.

If you are looking for a dependable, well-known, and fast hard drive then search no more. This product is so popular that it was constantly being sold-out at all of the Chattanooga locations. It does not even compare to my previous 5400 RPM drives and you will be able to tell a big performance difference between this drive and the competitors. Don't be conned into buying a cheaper and inferior product when you can spend just a little more to have a superior brand name hard drive for your system. Basically, you can't go wrong with this drive from my personal experience overall.

I've purchased 3 of these drives over the past few years. The first shortly after purchasing a new computer and used it to consolidate all my data from smaller aging IDE drives and used it as additional storage. The 2nd to replace the failing OS drive (not a Western Digital) in that computer a few years later. The 3rd to host the OS on a new system I recently built. (I just couldn't make the expense jump to SSD, but soon :-D ) I've had reliable service from Western Digital Drives in the past and continued to use them, leading me to choose these drives. The oldest is 4-5 years old. Aside from the long life I've experienced, these drives do get noisy under heavy loads. Good performance streaming videos across my network to an Xbox console. Windows Vista and 7 experience index 5.9.

I used this as a replacement in a Gateway computer my brother had. Installation was not difficult but required an understanding of how to move the old system files to the new drive. While this is not hard if you are not comfortable in your knowledge of the process then pay the fee to have the Geek Squad do the work. We chose this drive because of WD's reliability and the price was great for a faster hard drive. It is as quiet as the old drive and my brother doubled his drive space at a reasonable price. A good choice for replacing an aging hard drive.

The hard drive works No problems so far. Bonus- The box does read 32Mb cache, but the hard drive itself says 64Mb cache. I first bought a Seagate, but after opening the box, the hard drive had a different serial #. After checking (reading) massive reviews. I found out the Seagate drive Had a high failure rate. People when ever you purchase a new drive ALWAYS check the serial # on the box and make sure it matches the serial # on the hard drive.