I bought this Western Digital Black 1TB around July of 2012. I've formatted my PC 3 times, switched CPU, GPU, RAM, etc. and this drive has never let me down. It's 80% full of games right now (since I don't want to take the risk of using it for important or personal data at his age) and it still gets...

Very Reliable; Inexpensive compared to SSD; Fast enough for a mechanical drive

Noisy (Normal for HDD

Congratulations to Western Digital! I'm very happy with the way how you make most of the hard drives reliable over the years and I'm really proud of all of the hard work you've done. ? You've just earned five stars on this one...additional stars can be purchased for $72.99! ☆ Third time's a charm!

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 frozeI rebooted and cant see drive on...

NONE I SEE

DIED IN THREE WEEKS

JR.com has the best price on the 2tb caviar black edition drive. It was advertised as 32mb cache model WD20000LSRTL. I googled that and found nothing. So I crossed my fingers hoping that they would ship me the 64mb cache version, and to my suprise, they did!

Durable; Fast Connectivity; Quiet; Reliable; Versatile

WD is always a reliable manufacturer of high quality hard drives. This drive is no different. I use it on my Mac Pro as a time machine backup. 7200rpm speed is the maximum these HDD drives deliver. Very happy with the performance.

Found these a bit overpriced for the capacity nowadays but these are just what we were looking for so it works!

This was an easy install, and is a super quiet hard drive. The cloning software made it easy to clone my smaller drive, and saved a lot of time without the need to reinstall windows.

Conventional wisdom says solid state drives (SSDs) beat traditional hard drives silly in any performance metric you care to mention. How can the likes of Western Digital's latest magnetic spinner, the Caviar Black 1TB WD1002FAEX, therefore hope to compete?

Lots of performance-enhancing features; Good balance between capacity and performance

Still much slower than an SSD; SATA 6Gbps interface is redundant

The Western Digital Caviar Black range of hard disks is backed up by a five-year warranty, which is reassuring if you're after a storage disk for important data; remember to back up all the same, as a warranty won't get lost data back in case of damage or failure.

Review The 2TB Caviar Black is the second hard drive we have seen with a capacity of two terabytes. Glance back to our 2008 round-up of 1TB drives , which used three or four platters, and you can see that this is pretty much a doubling of areal density.