Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB,Internal,7200 RPM,3.5" (WD1001FALS) Hard Drive

I purchased this hard drive used on Ebay, and found it to be very impressive. It replaced my aging 120gb Seagate and a 200gb Maxtor. Now, don't get me wrong; both were great hard drives, but I needed more space and less power consumption. Here is my take on the Western Digital Caviar Black 1tb hard drive's performance:

Pros:
1. plenty of storage (1 terabyte)
2. quiet
3. fast (spindle speed 7200rpm & average seek time 4 milliseconds)
4. latest technology (dual processors installed)
5. fast rewrite (32mb of onboard cache) 16mb more than VelociRaptor!
6. 5 year warranty
7. easy to install, format, and get up and running.

Cons:
None so far.

The install was very easy. I purchased Acronis True Image to clone the older drives, but later discovered that I could have downloaded Acronis online for free. Anyway, the transfers took about one hour, and the WD Caviar Black is running great. It is a very fast drive system. The WD-WD1001FALS cost $200 when first introduced about 2yrs ago. So, if you can find one for under $100, you have got yourself a great deal! So, buy it! I liked mine so much, that I bought a second one, and I am tickled to death! Two terabytes should last me well into my next computer build, and some. I highly recommend this hard drive.

Myself, I have not experience any HD problems... so far; but my friend have. A particular line of well known 7200 rpm hard drive brand act up within a week after he bought it, so I decided to stay away from that brand for now (even known they are going for very good price every where!). Internet search shown that the drive line that my friend bought in fact just have a major firmware revision & the defects are linked with this line!(hence the price discount!?).
I like this line a lot (and prefer to buy that brand) but the price on the ones with good firmware revision are not reasonable nor is it readily available... so

A search of the internet also tell me that WD black Caviar 7200rpm has some very good features and some specs are even better than that other well known drive line, in particular is its server heritage, reliability and power consumption and the price is also very reasonable on Ebay; so I picked up one up. So far, every thing is as good as can be. I am an average user so I have not monitor every aspect of the drive to be able to rate it more accurately but it seems to perform flawlessly and have not noticably increase the temperature of my case. This is perfectly good with me.

The only thing that I don't like about this unit is that comes bare... no setup disk, no mounting hardwares. etc... but I knew that going in. So overall, I would give this WD Caviar Black two thumbs up.

Great hard drive with massive storage, I had trouble at first setting the drive up but I got the hang of it, runs cool in my computer along side 3 other harddrives, I bought it because it was $10 less than where I was going to buy it, I would recomend this drive for to anybody who needs massive storage...Cavier Black= Better performance, says it on the Western Digital Website

Over the years I have purchased many hard drives for new systems I have build or upgraded. I started using Western Digitals over 10 years ago after another brand crashed & burned with all of my business and personal information on it after only 4 months of use. So at that time I added a tape back-up & switched to WD. Since then I have always counted on them for state of art equipment that is rock solid & dependable.
This drive is another in a long line of outstanding technology form WD

I have been building and programming computers for just over 16 years. I have had failures with other manufactures. I have not had a single problem with Western Digital's. Over this time, they ranged from 400M - 250G (I gave those away) For my current PC, I am using for booting - 2-150G Raptors (approx. 5 yrs esata boots for XP & 7, 3-320G Black 2.5" esata boots XP, Vista & 7. For storage - 2-500G Black, 2-500G Blue (approx. 6 yrs ea. for all 4), 1-1T Green, 2-1.5T Green, 10-1T Black, 1-2T Black and 1-2T Enterprise. I ran out of alphabet to have them all on line at the same time.
I will not buy any other brand of hard drive! I think I have enough drives for a while. I might give away the 4-500G's and get get a couple more of the 2T Black.