If you need 2TB of storage but don't want to sacrifice performance, Western Digital's Caviar Black (WD2001FASS) might be for you. This SATA II 3.5in internal hard drive lacks the power-saving features of the company's GreenPower drives but provides a faster spin speed and better overall performance.

Caviar Black drives are Western Digital's flagship models, and the list of features doesn't disappoint. Every drive boasts 32MB of cache, and this is joined by features to prevent platters wearing out and knocks damaging the disk.

A great reliable hard drive

Reliable

Expensive now

Bought this to replace a 'non-performance' Samsung hard drive which started giving errors until failed altogether. This happened when I started doing a lot more video editing. So far this new drive is excellent and faster than previous. Why not five stars Maybe I'll upgrade review a year from now.

WD1001FALS 5 years While Solid State Drives are sexy, new and considered "high performance", the truth of the matter is they are also bleeding edge technology and in some cases may in fact be slower than the more mundane alternative.

Nice large driveRapid for a non SSD tough driveQuietGood Value Not an SSDNot as major as some other difficult drives The drive performs fantastic, is pretty rapidly, and does what a tough drive demands to do.If you want a large rapid drive, this is a great selection.

Got loads of important data to store? Or just an unusually large porn collection?

Absolutely the best hard drive. With no equal or peer anywhere. Incredibly fast able to achieve max..

When Seagate sent over their new SATA 6 Gb/s Barracuda XT 2TB hard drive we were caught off guard. At the time I was neck deep in enterprise products and working with LSI on their new RAID controllers.

Bought 2 of these (Raid 1 array) installed in minutes,.. didn't expect anything special,... but then I started transferring files and WOW!! these are as fast as my VelociRaptor 10,000 rpm drives!! read and write speeds are incredible!

Everything,....

the price