To our lab hits the latest 1 TB internal drive of format 3.5-inch Western Digital - Caviar Black WD1002FAEX. Caviar Black is the fastest series WD drives addressed to the computer of desktop class. The drive operates at a speed of 7200 rev. / Min, equipped with, among others: the large 64-megabytes memory buffer of cache, two integrated processors, which increase the computing power, dual-servo technology for increasing the accuracy of the head position control and the newest SATA 6 Gb / s

With 1000 GB after formatting the user gets 931.5 GB of space available. WD1002FAEX achieves excellent results in all tests of performance. In the application, HD Tach 3.0 average data transfer speed during reading and writing was 111.3 and 111.2 MB / s with very short as for the magnetic drives, access time of at 12.9 ms.

The speed of data storage is the highest achieved among the drives of this capacity. In the application DiskBenchXP, maximum speed read and write was 129.2 and 129 MB / s. Delivering these results by the "Caviar Black" means that well suitable: as a system disk, processing and assembly of high-definition movie, also should be appreciated by the players.

The score 9965 points. in the PC HDD Mark05 Score, which reflects the speed of your system and applications installed on the drive is also the best result among the 1 TB drives. So far, the highest score among the drives working at 7200 rev. / Min won the Seagate ST32000641AS XT 2TB - 10 247 points., And among all HDD that can run at 10 000 rev. / Min WD6000HLHX WD VelociRaptor 600 GB - 11 633 points

After a 30 minutes in read mode, drive metal casing was heated up to a temperature of 48 ° C, which is in normal. Measured in an anechoic chamber noise generated by the "Black" - was during work until 43.4 dB (3.9 sone), and in idle mode 32 dB (1.2 sone). The conclusion is that without proper mute Caviar Black can be cumbersome during everyday use.

With these new enhancements, Black uses the average amount of energy it needs about 6.8 W. As you can see the results compared with competitive models WD6000HLHX 1TB WD design is the most efficent among them, worse is just a big noise generated by the drive during work.

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