WD Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1 TB Internal Hard Drive - Bulk

WDs 4 The Win

Strengths: Reliability, Quiet, Fast

Weakness: None

Over the past 9 years I've purchased 6 WD hardrives - still yet to have a WD hardrive to fail. In Jan I bought both the black and green - I use the caviar black for both media storage and gaming - works great.

By koighor - Apr 18, 2009

The Best

Strengths: Fast, Quiet, reliable so far.

Weakness: None

I have two of these in a RAID 1 configuration. They have run flawlessly, and are extremely fast. According to WD, this is the same basic drive mechanism as their RE3 enterprise drives, but without the vibration resistance or testing. I also have RE3's in my server, and these drives appear identical. I own 20+ drives, and I so far have had no failures or SMART drive faults on any of the 7200 RPM...
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I have two of these in a RAID 1 configuration. They have run flawlessly, and are extremely fast.

According to WD, this is the same basic drive mechanism as their RE3 enterprise drives, but without the vibration resistance or testing. I also have RE3's in my server, and these drives appear identical.

I own 20+ drives, and I so far have had no failures or SMART drive faults on any of the 7200 RPM WD 500G --> 1 TB drives. I haven't tried the 5400 RPM GP drives.

By linutic - Mar 7, 2009

black caviar

Strengths: Works fine on video editing

Weakness: None so far

I bought three of these for my use and three Seagates for Christmas presents. Mine still work. The others don't. Seagate seems to be in the dumpster. They don't care or do not have the money to care.

By black caviar; - Mar 6, 2009

BUY SEAGATE

Strengths: NONE I SEE

Weakness: DIED IN THREE WEEKS

I had this drive about three weeks on a brand new system.. I just got done loading two weeks of OS and other programs and getting it the way I wanted.. I just moved today 300 gigs of data off five hard drives 5-7 years old and did a virus scan and noticed system froze I rebooted and cant see drive on and off and win xp never finished a boot, I load this drive into old system and that one also...
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I had this drive about three weeks on a brand new system..
I just got done loading two weeks of OS and other programs and getting it the way I wanted..

I just moved today 300 gigs of data off five hard drives 5-7 years old and did a virus scan and noticed system froze

I rebooted and cant see drive on and off and win xp never finished a boot, I load this drive into old system and that one also cant see drive at all..

I also had a six month old WD SE16 die three months ago and had $300 locked up on may debit card for a drive I paid $79 and had a used drive sent in return.. WD must love when UPS loses the box and they more than triple there profits..

Buy anything but Westen Digital

By RAREBEAR; - Feb 13, 2009

Still running like new

Strengths: Fast, cool, quiet, reliable

Weakness: None so far

I have been using this drive for 6 months with constant movement of files within it and movement of files in and out of it, and so far there has been no loss of quality. I have it in an external enclosure sitting right beside me and I can't even tell it's on (that's how quiet it is). I do a lot of video and music editing on it, and my wife does a lot of graphic art work on it, and we've never...
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I have been using this drive for 6 months with constant movement of files within it and movement of files in and out of it, and so far there has been no loss of quality. I have it in an external enclosure sitting right beside me and I can't even tell it's on (that's how quiet it is).

I do a lot of video and music editing on it, and my wife does a lot of graphic art work on it, and we've never experienced any data loss or anything. Whenever I get the funds for a new computer, I will definitely buy another one of these.

Western Digital definitely has great quality drives. There will drives that don't always work, but you run that risk with any hardware and/or electronic equipment. Even the best companies have a few lemons in their stock.

By anonymous; - Apr 3, 2010