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Reviews for WD Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1 TB Internal Hard Drive - BulkSATA/300 - 7200 rpm - 32 MB Buffer - Hot Swappable - MPN: WD1001FALS
$148.15 - $203.65
By member:
koighor
- Apr 18, 2009
WDs 4 The WinStrengths: Reliability, Quiet, Fast Weakness: None Over the past 9 years I've purchased 6 WD hardrives - still yet to have a WD hardrive to fail. In Jan I bought both the black and green - I use the caviar black for both media storage and gaming - works great. 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
By anonymous - Mar 6, 2009
black caviarStrengths: Works fine on video editing Weakness: None so far I bought three of these for my use and three Seagates for Christmas presents. Mine still work. The others don't. Seagate seems to be in the dumpster. They don't care or do not have the money to care. 67% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
By anonymous - Feb 13, 2009
BUY SEAGATEStrengths: NONE I SEE Weakness: DIED IN THREE WEEKS I had this drive about three weeks on a brand new system.. 15% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
Reply by member: cgramer
Feb 27, 2009 I've used nothing but Western Digital drives since 1997, and have never had any issues. Sorry you got two bad ones, but it's hardly indicative of WD's quality. Check reviews on multiple sites, people. WD is highly-rated, and I can also attest to their (usual) high level of quality.
Reply by member: koighor
Apr 18, 2009 Ultimately there will always be someone who is able to counter positive or negative feedback based on their experices - in the end your future hd choices will depend on your past experiences and which hd brand served you best. I've used WD's since 2000 and I've still yet to experience loss of data due to WD failure. I've had to RMA two WD because of SMART failures; each time both parties successfully received the product without any issues. Just because UPS lost a package doesn't constitute a faulty product/RMA Service on WD's side. My apologies regarding series of unfortunate events related to a WD hd - but given WD's track record and my experience with them, I will continue to be a loyal customer.
productwiki.com - Jul 1, 2010
Western Digital Caviar Black | 1 TB - 3.5 Inch - 32 MB Cache - 7200 RPM - SATA II
The WD Caviar Black is a high-performance internal hard drive from Western Digital. This drive is available in numerous capacities ranging from 500 GB to 2 TB. All WD Caviar Black hard drives operate at 7200 RPM, allowing data to be accessed transferred at a max of 3 GB/s over one SATA II connection. The Caviar Black is aimed at users who use power computing applications such as multimedia,... Top
bestcovery.com - May 8, 2009
Best Hard Drive (Internal)
Bestcovery experts have rated the WD Caviar Black 1TB Hard Drive as the Best Hard Drive (Internal). Bestcovery's experts recommend the best products and services for a particular need based on extensive research and evaluations. Click below to see Bestcovery's full review of this product. Top
testseek.com - Oct 31, 2008
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA300 WD1001FALS
Testseek.com has collected 40 expert reviews for Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA300 WD1001FALS and the average expert rating is 80 of 100. The average score reflects the expert community’s view on this product. Click below and use Testseek.com to see all ratings, product awards and conclusions. TopAdvertisement  
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Strengths: Fast, Quiet, reliable so far.
Weakness: None
I have two of these in a RAID 1 configuration. They have run flawlessly, and are extremely fast.
According to WD, this is the same basic drive mechanism as their RE3 enterprise drives, but without the vibration resistance or testing. I also have RE3's in my server, and these drives appear identical.
I own 20+ drives, and I so far have had no failures or SMART drive faults on any of the 7200 RPM WD 500G --> 1 TB drives. I haven't tried the 5400 RPM GP drives.
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