Description
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WD Caviar Black drives combine a high performance electronics architecture with a rock solid mechanical architecture to deliver the perfect storage solution for fully-loaded PC or maxed out gaming machine. Cool drive operation, no-touch head technology, and leading-edge vibration protection ensure enhanced reliability and sustained data throughput.
Specifications
Summary
- Product Description
- WD Caviar Black WD1001FALS - hard drive - 1 TB - SATA-300
- Type
- Hard drive - internal
- Form Factor
- 3.5" x 1/3H
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 10.2 cm x 14.7 cm x 2.5 cm
- Weight
- 0.69 kg
- Capacity
- 1 TB
- Interface Type
- Serial ATA-300
- Data Transfer Rate
- 300 MBps
- Spindle Speed
- 7200 rpm
- Buffer Size
- 32 MB
- OS Required
- Microsoft Windows Vista / 2000 / XP
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 5 years warranty
Detail
General
- Device Type
- Hard drive - internal
- Width
- 10.2 cm
- Depth
- 14.7 cm
- Height
- 2.5 cm
- Weight
- 0.69 kg
Hard Drive
- Form Factor
- 3.5" x 1/3H
- Capacity
- 1 TB
- Interface Type
- Serial ATA-300
- Buffer Size
- 32 MB
- Features
- Data Lifeguard, Shock Guard, StableTrac, Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR), NoTouch ramp load technology, dual processor
- Compliant Standards
- S.M.A.R.T.
Performance
- Drive Transfer Rate
- 300 MBps (external)
- Internal Data Rate
- 106 MBps
- Average Latency
- 4.2 ms
- Spindle Speed
- 7200 rpm
Reliability
- Non-Recoverable Errors
- 1 per 10^15
- Start / Stop Cycles
- 300,000
Expansion / Connectivity
- Interfaces
- 1 x Serial ATA-300 - 7 pin Serial ATA
- Compatible Bays
- 1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
Miscellaneous
- Compliant Standards
- RoHS
Software / System Requirements
- OS Required
- Microsoft Windows Vista / 2000 / XP
Manufacturer Warranty
- Service & Support
- 5 years warranty
- Service & Support Details
- Limited warranty - 5 years
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature
- 0 °C
- Max Operating Temperature
- 60 °C
- Humidity Range Operating
- 5 - 95%
- Shock Tolerance
- 30 g @ 2ms (operating) / 250 g @ 1ms (non-operating)
- Vibration Tolerance
- 0.75 g @ 20-300 Hz (operating) / 4 g @ 20-500 Hz (non-operating)
Customer reviews
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WD warranty service
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 09/12/2010
I have been using a pair of these in a raid 1 array for over a year. Recently the raid controller software reported a fault in one of the drives indicating that it should be replaced immediately. I panicked and requested RMA for one drive direct with WD. 3 1/2 days later a new drive arrived from somewhere in continental Europe couriered by UPS. In the interim having removed faulty drive I plugged it into another comuter out of interest and amazingly no problem found. All data readable. Re-inserted into original computer and rebuilt array. Fault was with RAID controller.
I notified WD who said to simply reject delivery from UPS.
In the event I didn't, and I have bought it as a spare.
Cannot find any fault with WD warranty service.
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Great Value for money
Reviewed by David Thomas. Review Posted 07/09/2009
Great amount of space for price, runs quiet, no problems with it at all.
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Very Nice
Reviewed by chris. Review Posted 23/06/2009
Very fast and very quiet, runs cool and doesn't look like it's going to fail any time soon. one space left for a hard drive and it'll definately be one of these.
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A Tad Noisy
Reviewed by Matt. Review Posted 20/01/2010
I got one of these to replace a failing 500gb hard-drive that i had barely bought 6 months ago, its a tad noisy under heavy access, other than that no problems so far.
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Decent Drive + Good Warranty
Reviewed by Matt. Review Posted 02/05/2009
I've not had the drive that long so I can’t talk about long term reliability but with a 5 year warranty it gives me a fair bit of confidence. I wanted an external HDD but I wanted to use this drive specifically because it’s quite fast. I have set it up using an Akasa Elite Leather 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure allowing both USB and esata connections. Having tested both connections USB transferred at around 30MB/s and esata had an average of near the 90MB/s mark (limited by the HD speed) which is pretty good. The only negative so far is very minor, it’s quite heavy obviously due to having three platters but then I guess you don’t buy a 3.5” HDD with portability a number 1 priority! I did look at the Samsung SpinPoint F1 RAID Class but it seemed to have more reliability problems on reviews I read but I’m just going by other peoples comments there.
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Great value but noisy
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 11/01/2010
Good value, good performance. But it is rather noisy.
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WD Black Caviar and ReadyNAs DUO
Reviewed by . Review Posted 15/02/2010
HI
These seem ok disks but DO NOT USE in a netgear duo. I got them for netgear dupo and have no end of problems **note that they are not in the HLC list for netgear duo NAS. Even though Netgear lead you to believe you can use any disk.
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