The subject drive was boxed well and was delivered in a short period of time. But the drive came with no power or data cables. Also, you will need to download the software and instructions to clone the old drive's files and Operating System to the new drive.

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

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.

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.

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.

Really good. I use it with a Samsung 850 evo 250gb for best results. I have Windows on the SSD and frequently used programs. And then all the games, images, videos and more applications on this disk. I recommend this strongly if you have an SSD to.

I bought a WD black 1TB a few years ago and it ended up failing on me. So I bought another WD black 1TB. And now it too has just failed. Research complete. I need to switch brands.

Best performing HDD for frequently used files.

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!