This hard drive is easily in the top 3 7200rpm drives available right now. Of course, it doesn't even come close to a half decent SSD, but the performance you get out of this is unbeatable.

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

We have to be honest here. The Western Digital Caviar Black 4TB is a bit of a letdown. It came out more than 6 months after the Hitachi 7K4000 4TB , yet the Hitachi is faster, cheaper, quieter and more efficient.

The Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB Hard Drive's interface is SATA 3 Gb/s (Gigabits per second), has a capacity of 1000GBs or 1TB, average latency of 4.2ms, a rotation speed of 7,200 RPMs, a 32MB buffer size, power consumption is 8.4W while being accessed and 7W when idle, the noise level is 24dBA

Western Digital's Caviar Black hard drive series has grown to be synonymous with performance and speed in the consumer desktop space. The newest and highest capacity Caviar Black is a 3.5" 2TB 7200RPM model with 500GB platters and other Western Digital goodies like dual processors, dual actuators...

Fast performance; High-capacity; Low startup power requirements

Slower than enterprise counterpart

A great reliable hard drive

Reliable

Expensive now

Of their entire lineup, the Caviar Black sits nicely in the middle of WD's VelociRaptor 10,000rpm drives and Caviar Green 5,400rpm energy saving drives. The new SATA 6Gbps interface also helps improve overall performance, especially burst speeds.

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

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

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.