Get a this quality HDD and your good to go for storing all your files on.

Was DOA, all busted up and dented as if it had been dropped down a flight of stairs.

If you're looking for a combination of speed and capacity in a single internal hard drive, the Western Digital WD1001FALS 1TB Hard Drive ($190 street), better known as the Caviar Black, is hard to beat.

Impressive areal density; Excellent single drive performance.

Ill-suited for RAID 0

Storage always makes for a curious world. Western Digital's newest entry into the terabyte contest--it's second, if you count the company's Caviar Green drive--is geared for enthusiast performance. One look at the insides of this Caviar Black drive tells the entire tale.

Acceptable read and write performance for a terabyte drive; excellent random access speeds

Only "faster" than our fastest terabyte drive on one splotch of Vista tests

The cost of hard drive storage keeps getting cheaper and cheaper, while the capacity getting larger and larger. A year ago, 1TB drives were several hundred dollars. Now, they're only a few tens of dollars more than their 750 GB and 500 GB brethren.

Speedy; Inexpensive

Performance could be just a little better

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.

WD's Caviar Black series SATA II hard drives feature a faster spindle speed and 32MB of onboard cache. Drive capacities range from 500GB through to 1.0TB, but all the Caviar Black series drives use Perpendicular Magnetic Recording.

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.

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.

The Western Digital WD1003FZEX is by far the best 1TB SATA HDD for the money. Superior performance and longevity make it an ideal replacement/upgrade for your aging drives.