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WD’s Black 4TB is the sort of product that doesn’t need much of an introduction – it speaks for itself. We’re dealing with a standard-sized desktop hard drive that sports a market-leading 4TB of storage. That’s 4,000GB, for those not paying enough attention. It’s impressive on paper, so let’s see how it fares in our benchmarks.
Western Digital or just WD is a well known hard drive manufacturer, and they really had
a break trough with their Raptor drives some years back.
The product we are looking at here, is their WD Black WD4001FAEX with a 4TB capacity.
But what about the performance?
Die SSHD-Thematik haben wir mit der Seagate SSHD ST2000DX001 schon hinlänglich erläutert und vorgestellt. Aus dem Hause Western Digital gibt es seit einiger Zeit ein Storage-Laufwerk, welches ein ähnliches Schema verfolgt. Die WD Black² ist aber ein so genanntes Dual-Drive mit einem 120GB großen SSD-Bereich und einer 1TB großen HDD. Der Clou daran, beides wurde in einem kleinen 2,5 Zoll Chassis untergebracht. Im Praxistest wollen wir dem Laufwerk auf den Zahn fühlen bzw. prüfen, was leistungsmäßig herauszuholen ist.
Ever since the emergence of Solid-State Drives, there’s been a conundrum facing laptop users in regards to storage options. Storage could be fast, large capacity, or low price – pick two of the three. We’ve seen hybrid drives that mesh SSDs with HDDs using a caching method to boost performance but generally the SSD portion is less than ideal. Western Digital has a new spin on this concept with a hybrid drive of a different sort that they’ve aptly named Black². With it, they’ve actually combined a 120GB SSD and a 1TB HDD on a single drive, although separate save for the the SATA III interface they share. Before you go wetting yourself with anticipation, have a look at the performance numbers and our impressions to see if it truly delivers full SSD performance with HDD capacity...
It is the WD Caviar Black 1TB drive I will be taking a look at today. The Black series, in addition to offering the greatest performance of Western Digital's consumer lineup of Caviar drives, also includes the same five year warranty as their more expensive Enterprise class. Sporting a class-standard SATA 3.0Gbps interface, 7200rpm spindle speed and a whopping 32Mb of cache, the WD1001FALS represents Western Digital's top of the line consumer grade hard drive.
Storage solutions are evolving rapidly, that much was clear at the WD conference in Turkey. Western Digital, along with hard disk manufacturer HGST, provided a glimpse into the future.
We are witnessing an increasing number of applications of the Thunderbolt technology. After Apple, Promise and LaCie, now Western Digital is launching a product that takes advantage of this lightning fast connection technology in the shape of the WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo. We tested the 4TB version of WD's new external hard drive.
The Western Digital My Book VelociRaptor Duo shows what's possible when you combine Thunderbolt with a traditional hard drive, you get an external hard drive with extremely high transfer rates. It's technically possible to daisychain several of them to increase the speed even more. So if you want external storage with a Thunderbolt connector, then the Western Digital My Book VelociRaptor Duo is a great solution.
The new My Book World Edition II network storage systems came out today and we have the 2TB model (WDH2NC20000) on the test bench to see how it performs. Read on to see how to map the drive, configure the backup software, and to see how fast files can transfer on a gigabit network.
Western Digital’s My Cloud network-attached storage devices are great for storing your data, but they are single-bay devices that can’t offer capacity benefits or mind assuring redundancy of having a RAID array for your data. Millions of people around the world have relied on single-bay or single-drive devices to backup their data. WD has noticed that there has been a major shift to multi-bay network attached storage (NAS) devices this year and market research shows that trend will continue in the years to come. WD realized that they did not offer any multi-bay NAS devices for the consumer market, so they decided to come up with one. WD’s announcement of the My Cloud EX4 today is the answer to this market shift and hopefully the continued growth of the WD brand.
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