WD Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB SATA 3.5" Int Hard Drive: $69.99 AC FS

[Pardus]

$79.99@newegg - promo code EMCJKKF52 [Exp 10/10] = $69.99. Free ship.

Brand: Western Digital
Series: Caviar Black
Model: WD1002FAEX
Packaging: Bare Drive
Interface: SATA 6.0Gb/s
Capacity: 1TB
RPM: 7200 RPM
Cache: 64MB
Form Factor: 3.5"
Manufacturer Warranty Parts/Labor: 5 years limited

 

[sep]

I have the 750GB and it's fast on my SATA 6Gb.

 

[Corporate Thug]

I THINK the Spinpoint F3 1TB is a bit faster than this drive and cheaper at $49.99.

 

[sep]

I THINK the Spinpoint F3 1TB is a bit faster than this drive and cheaper at $49.99.

Yes cheaper...but I can't find any benchmarks to back that up. Not saying it's not. The specs show it's 6Gb vs 3Gb, 32MB vs 64MB Cache and 3 year warranty vs 5.

Again, mine is fast...seems I'm in games fast and in the top 5. Not sure if that's the drive, system or 20gb SSD caching (z68).

 

[bankster55]

1TB WDC FEAX is best overall HDD ever made.
I buy them all the time

 

[Sunny129]

Yes cheaper...but I can't find any benchmarks to back that up. Not saying it's not. The specs show it's 6Gb vs 3Gb, 32MB vs 64MB Cache and 3 year warranty vs 5.

i have a Spinpoint F3 1TB, but i also have no definitive evidence that it is any faster that the aforementioned WD Caviar Black 1TB. i used to have a WD Caviar Black 640GB, and i can say that it was much noisier than the Samsung Spinpoint F3 while seeking...the Samsung is virtually inaudible all the time. so if noise if a big deal to you, i'd steer clear of the WD Caviar Black series drives.

 

[sep]

hm...I don't hear my drive

 

[Sunny129]

hm...I don't hear my drive

well there could be a few factors at play here...

1) perhaps the noise coming from your other components overpowers the noises coming from your HDD.
2) perhaps your HDD gets written to and read from far less often than my HDD - i see you have an SSD, so naturally i'd assume that your HDD is just a storage volume, and that your SSD gets written to and read from far more often than you HDD does.
3) perhaps my WD Cavier Black 640GB was faulty and made noises it shouldn't have...but i doubt that was the case, seeing as how i've had 2 other WD Caviar Black HDD's in the past that both made the same noises.


also, here are a few reasons why i might be bothered by loud components more so than other folks:

1) my system does not have an SSD, and so the HDD is for the OS and storage...thus it gets written to and read from more often than the average rig containing both an SSD and an HDD.
2) the system also does not have a video card and an almost dead silent CPU cooler, so that right there makes any noises coming from the HDD that much more audible.
3) this rig is used primarily for distributed computing, and so the HDD is constantly getting written to and read from.
4) this rig is in my master bedroom, and so it must be quiet at night. with the WD Caviar Black HDD, i had to let the rig sit idle all night. with the Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDD, i can crunch through the night without hearing a sound come from the HDD.


...and of course the biggest factor is that noise is relative - what one person interprets as intolerably loud may be deemed perfectly acceptable by someone else, and vice versa. at any rate, i probably should have mentioned my pickiness when it comes to having a quiet rig in my previous post.

 

[jacion]

I went and grabbed the Samsung over this WD. I just didn't figure the extra cache and warranty was worth the 40% price premium.

Plus my last WD drive died on me 1yr ago after only using it for a year, and it took 2 weeks AFTER WD received my dead unit for them to get a replacement back to me. I think next time I have a HDD die, I will immediately buy a up to date replacement somewhere else, and stick the RMA'ed drive in the closet when it comes in.

 

[realjetavenger]

For those who have to pay tax at newegg, amazon also has this same drive for $69.99, no code required.
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digit...ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1317906608&sr=1-1

 

[sep]

If it's not going on a 6Gb port and you don't mind the noise others are hearing...I agree get the Spinpoint F3 1TB...I'm thinking of grabbing one to replace a 320GB ; )

 

[Capt Caveman]

Yes cheaper...but I can't find any benchmarks to back that up. Not saying it's not. The specs show it's 6Gb vs 3Gb, 32MB vs 64MB Cache and 3 year warranty vs 5.

Again, mine is fast...seems I'm in games fast and in the top 5. Not sure if that's the drive, system or 20gb SSD caching (z68).

Based on your video card, if you're playing on low setting, your pc will have less to load and one reason why you might join online faster than others and not necessarily due to the hdd.