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SSHDs haben es bislang schwer bei der Kundschaft. Geht es um die reine Geschwindigkeit, greifen Käufer meist gleich zu SSDs. Und als Datengrab reichen günstigere, normale Festplatten. Western Digital will das mit der WD Black 2 ändern. PC Games Hardware macht den Test.
The new WD Black in the 4TB capacity offers intensive 200 MB/s performance in the standard 3.5" form factor. Let's take a look.
Recent designs in the laptop market are now seeing the availability of both an mSATA connector for SSDs, as well as the typical SATA connector for hard drives; the Lenovo Thinkpad is a great example of this. With the demand for additional capacity, we had also seen adapters which allowed for the swapping of optical drives for an additional hard drive. But what about newer models that have eliminated the optical drive altogether, or older models where you don’t want to give up the optical drive?
The Western Digital Black² combines a relatively slow SSD with a mainstream HDD, but it's a unique and brilliant combination that's definitely more than the sum of its parts. The Black² is the perfect solution for when you only have one available storage slot but need both fast storage and a lot of it. This is the first time you can have both in a single slot, and is therefore a great storage solution for notebooks.
With prices continually falling, SSD drives are no longer a luxury for the enthusiast. There is no doubt that SSD drives have significant advantages over their spinning brethren, but pricing aside...capacity continues to be the SSD's Achilles' heel. The current defacto solution to this conundrum is to pair your shinny SSD with a large capacity HDD. This pairing allows the user to decide how to handle their data management needs, performance or storage capacity. This works for most PC users, but in cases where design limitations prevent the use of two separate drives, the user is unfortunately forced into decision between one or the other. Will you ever be able to have your cake and eat it too?
At the end of last year we published a review of the Western Digital WD RE 4TB, the first 4TB hard disk from Western Digital. This disk from the WD RE series was aimed at professional use for servers and storage solutions, and its sticker price reflected this. The consumer version has now come out, called the Caviar Black 4 TB.
In this review we are going to take a look on the performance of the first 2 TB drives from Western Digital that spin at 7,200 rpm, RE4 and Caviar Black.
In late October, Western Digital released a new version of its Caviar Black Edition hard disks. WD calls the new ones 'Caviar Black' like the original series, but promises better performance compared to the first version. We tested the 4TB model.
On the PCSTATS test bench is the finest 1.0TB example Western Digital has to offer from its Caviar Black series. The Western Digital WD1001FALS has a capacity of 1 TeraBytes (1,000 GB) and is equipped with an industry standard 32MB cache. The three platters beneath its shiny metal exterior rotate at 7,200RPM and have a density of 333GB, so this 3.5" SATA II HDD should come close to attaining is listed sustained transfer rate of 106MB/s in PCSTATS' benchmark set
Western Digitals Caviar Green WD15EARS verkauft sich derzeit sehr gut, denn diese Festplatte bietet satte 1,5 TB Speicherplatz für weniger als 90 Euro. Zudem bietet sie im Vergleich zu ihrem minimal günstigeren Schwestermodell Caviar Green WD15EADS satte 64 MByte Cache sowie die Advanced Format-Technologie.
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