With all of the solid state hard drives that came out this year it seems like traditional hard drives sort of took a back seat, unless you were looking to get a large capacity drive. One thing that many people may have overlooked was the availability of SATA 6GB/s drives. A SATA 6GB/s drive has double the transfer rate (6GB/s compared to 3GB/s) as the SATA II drive that is currently in your system. Today we will be taking a look at the Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive and see how it compares to some other SATA drives. Let’s check it out!
Special thanks to Western Digital for providing us with the Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive to review.
| Performance Specifications |
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| Rotational Speed |
7,200 RPM (nominal) |
| Buffer Size |
64 MB |
| Average Latency |
4.20 ms (nominal) |
| Load/unload Cycles |
300,000 minimum |
| Transfer Rates |
| Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk) |
126 MB/s (Max) |
| Physical Specifications |
|
| Formatted Capacity |
1,000,204 MB |
| Capacity |
1 TB |
| Interface |
SATA 6 Gb/s |
| User Sectors Per Drive |
1,953,525,169 |
| Physical Dimensions |
|
| English |
| Height |
1.028 Inches |
| Depth |
5.787 Inches |
| Width |
4.00 Inches |
| Weight |
1.52 Pounds |
| Metric |
| Height |
26.1 mm |
| Depth |
147 mm |
| Width |
101.6 mm |
| Weight |
0.69 kg |
| Environmental Specifications |
|
| Shock |
| Operating Shock (Read) |
30G, 2 ms |
| Non-operating Shock |
300G, 2 ms |
| Acoustics |
| Idle Mode |
28 dBA (average) |
| Seek Mode 0 |
33 dBA (average) |
| Seek Mode 3 |
29 dBA (average) |
| Temperature (English) |
| Operating |
32° F to 140° F |
| Non-operating |
-40° F to 158° F |
| Temperature (Metric) |
| Operating |
-0° C to 60° C |
| Non-operating |
-40° C to 70° C |
| Electrical Specifications |
|
| Current Requirements |
| Power Dissipation |
| Read/Write |
6.80 Watts |
| Idle |
6.10 Watts |
| Standby |
0.70 Watts |
| Sleep |
0.70 Watts |
|
Packaging
We received this drive directly from Western Digital so it came nicely packaged in a plain brown box. Opening it up the drive is protected inside with plastic inserts and it is inside an anti-static bag.
