With all of the solid state hard drives that came out this year it seems like traditional hard drives sort of took a back seat, unless you were looking to get a large capacity drive. One thing that many people may have overlooked was the availability of SATA 6GB/s drives. A SATA 6GB/s drive has double the transfer rate (6GB/s compared to 3GB/s) as the SATA II drive that is currently in your system. Today we will be taking a look at the Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive and see how it compares to some other SATA drives. Let’s check it out!
Special thanks to Western Digital for providing us with the Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive to review.
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Packaging
We received this drive directly from Western Digital so it came nicely packaged in a plain brown box. Opening it up the drive is protected inside with plastic inserts and it is inside an anti-static bag.
Superb hard drive. One of the fastest 1TB drives out there!
*PLEASE* start mentioning the warrant. This drive is 5 full YEARS.
Many other drives are 1-2 years.
Says a lot about the (lack of) confidence a manufacturer has in their own product.