Caviar Black WD1002FAEX - weird behaviour/poor performance?

[Lapentti]

I have bought a new Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB and Windows 7 operating system is booting from this drive on my i5-750 system. This system has a 8GB RAM and an Asus P7P55D-LE motherboard. Can anybody tell me that i what i have got exactly. And how this drive performs. Actually i have not used my new system with this driver yet.

[Fabian]

Western Digital Caviar Black is one of the few WD1002FAEX 3.5-inch drives, which already dispose of a SATA-600 port. SATA 600 doubled compared to 300 the maximum data transfer rate up to 600 MB / s. As the tests of the sequential data rates show the SATA-600 port brings in practice, but no speed advantage. Even in burst mode, the WD1002FAEX drew to a maximum 238 MB / s not even the SATA-300 standard from.

[Hardwareman]

Another special feature of the Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX is the big cache of 64 MB. Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX is the large cache of 64 MB. In addition, built in the 1000 Western Digital GB hard drive only two magnetic disks of 500 GB of raw capacity. In addition, built in the 1000 Western Digital GB hard drive only two magnetic disks 500 GB of raw capacity.

[Killen]

The Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX was averaged over all the speed test fastest 1000-GB drive test. Very good results achieved WD1002FAEX in the practice tests. A DVD copy with a dataset of 4.2 GB wrote and reads the 1000 GB hard drive, A copy of a DVD with 4.2 GB of data writing and reading the 1000-GB hard drive with a significantly Dreiviertelminute. And to make a copy of the DVD files needed the hard drive only takes about one and a half minutes.

[deoWo]

To make a copy of the DVD files needed the hard drive only takes about one and a half minutes. And for the DVD-copying the hard drive and the files needed only about one and a half minutes. In sequential read and write was the 1000 GB hard drive, on average to well over 100 MB per second - great! Very great was the Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX in HDD benchmark of the PC Mark Vantage, where she sets up with just under 5400 points, a record among the terabyte drives. Finally, it gave WD1002FAEX excellent access times for a 3.5-inch hard drive. In addition, the first class offered WD1002FAEX access times for a 3.5-inch hard drive

[RoninBlade]

The Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX was compared to the other 1000-GB hard drives are also working with 7200 revolutions per minute, not over-hungry. However, the WD1002FAEX with about 5 watts a relatively high energy starvation showed in standby mode. However, the amount of over 5 watts WD1002FAEX a relatively high appetite for energy in standby mode.

[T.J.]

The noise from the WD1002FAEX was already noticeable at rest and during increased access to almost one sone. Is it the negative gall Caviar Black model in which the noise level was already noticeable in WD1002FAEX sleep and the increased access to nearly a year Sone. Also on the operating temperature was below the standard load, which climbed above the critical limit of 50 degrees Celsius.

[Rawko]

The Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX convinced by superior data rates in the test and access times. A little too high, but they were still acceptable fuel consumption and operating temperature 1000-GB hard drive. Advantages reaped the WD1002FAEX also one for the generous warranty of 5 years. Bottom line is the Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX thus emerged as PC World editor's choice from the comparison of the 3.5-inch hard drives.