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Reviews for WD Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1 TB Internal Hard Drive - Bulk

SATA/300 - 7200 rpm - 32 MB Buffer - Hot Swappable - MPN: WD1001FALS

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  • 5
  By member: koighor - Apr 18, 2009

WDs 4 The Win

Strengths: 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.

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  • 5
  By member: linutic - Mar 7, 2009

The Best

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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  • 4
  By anonymous - Mar 6, 2009

black caviar

Strengths: 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.

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  • 1
  By anonymous - Feb 13, 2009

BUY SEAGATE

Strengths: NONE I SEE

Weakness: DIED IN THREE WEEKS

I had this drive about three weeks on a brand new system..
I just got done loading two weeks of OS and other programs and getting it the way I wanted..

I just moved today 300 gigs of data off five hard drives 5-7 years old and did a virus scan and noticed system froze

I rebooted and cant see drive on and off and win xp never finished a boot, I load this drive into old system and that one also cant see drive at all..

I also had a six month old WD SE16 die three months ago and had $300 locked up on may debit card for a drive I paid $79 and had a used drive sent in return.. WD must love when UPS loses the box and they more than triple there profits..

Buy anything but Westen Digital

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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.

  • 3.5
  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,...

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  • 5.0
  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.

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  • 4.0
  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.

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