WD Caviar Black 1 TB, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, WD1002FAEX

[Dainas]

I'll stick with my western digital black drives even if they are slightly slower in certain synthetic benchmarks. Why? Entirely due to them having the lowest failure rate of current drives on the market. Due to a recent court case, Seagate admitted their failure rate is roughly 1% annualized (compound that by a number of years). And judging by reveiws posted by users on various online stores, the Samsung drives are probably even higher.

I have personally replaced 5x as many Samsung drives and 10x Toshiba drives as any other brand. Very very rarely do I have to replace WD drives in my customers systems.

And when you guys consider the massive amount of important data people store on hard drives these days... I'd rather pay more money and have a little less speed in order to reduce the chances of a drive failure and subsequent loss of all it's data.

God thats laughable, considering my experience is the exact opposite. Except a green drive I picked up last year (which still runs a tad hotter than Samsung drives).. all my WD drive went dead by chirp of death. Where as I've had no problems whatsoever with Samsungs spinpoint series drives. And its not a little faster, Samsung F1-F3s have consistently walloped WDs non raptor offerings for the last 3 years. FYI samsungs have the lowest failure rate, most people who own WDs drives are like those who owned maxtors, not bothered enough to report a failure. OEM samsungs from 10-5 years ago were pretty ty, but I honestly have no reservations stating their drives hands down the best now.

[jalyst]

So what's the story with the 1001FAES; is it to eventually replace the WD1001FALS?

Will it always have 500GB platters now like the WD1002FAEX (which also has two actuators)
If so is the only difference between the 1002FAEX and 1001FAES the SATA interface?

Is there going to be similar sorts of differentiation with the 2TB Blacks & 2TB RE's?

[onethreehill]

Western Digital's 6Gbps Caviar Black 1TB Review
Western Digital's Caviar Black 1TB is the first two-platter, 7,200-RPM drive to use the company's latest 500GB platters. The new Black is also WD's first step into 6Gbps SATA territory, so let's see how it performs in a battery of performance, noise, and power consumption tests.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/18467

[onethreehill]

WD Caviar Black 1 TB WD1002FAEX is $120 @Amazon
http://techreport.pricegrabber.com/s...p_id=186278874

[jalyst]

So what's the story with the 1001FAES; is it to eventually replace the WD1001FALS?

Will it always have 500GB platters now like the WD1002FAEX (which also has two actuators)
If so is the only difference between the 1002FAEX and 1001FAES the SATA interface?

Is there going to be similar sorts of differentiation with the 2TB Blacks & 2TB RE's?

guess no one knows...

[Orion24]

Just got to test the Spinpoint F3 3xRAID-0. Performance is far from making the most of the drives, but whatever. Make the SATA6 would help here.

[jalyst]

http://techreport.com/articles.x/18467

He's planning some follow-up reviews for the F3 and Deskstar too.
Looking forward to seeing them all compared.

[Pacha]

Just got to test the Spinpoint F3 3xRAID-0. Performance is far from making the most of the drives, but whatever. Make the SATA6 would help here.

Extreme with 3 drives
I stopped at two drives for my data, otherwise I won't feel serene

my setup of 2 F3 RAID 0




beating the transfer rates of my 2 VelociRaptor 150 RAID 0

[Silvestre]

seriously, my various drives havent died at all on me and they havent shown any symptomps of dying. What matters with HDDs is the supply of power. If the power supplied is stable the only way it's gonna fail is factory defect, and so far i havent experienced no such thing. You guys definitely have seen how many HDDs die when used with some no-name external case, havent you.
I use 11 HDDs from various brands (Samsung, WD, Seagate, Fujitsu) on my PC and they have been running well for about 4 years now.
All i care about buying HDD is the price per gig, then performance, then compatibility (i still remember the case with maxtor and nF4 back then). I think right now, aside from the performance, 1.5TB HDD looks good for the price. 2TB is still quite expensive.

[jmke]

why bother with SATA 6Gbps controllers on HDDs...

[xenolith]

WD Caviar Black 1 TB WD1002FAEX is $120 @Amazon
http://techreport.pricegrabber.com/s...p_id=186278874

Makes the 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 a much better value. The 1TB F3 went for $76 @newegg couple weeks ago... I'm waiting for them to come back in stock in hopes to get another.

[onethreehill]

WD Caviar Black 1 TB WD1002FAEX Tested
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/..._motherboard/2

[onethreehill]

WD Caviar Black 1 TB WD1002FAEX is available $120 @newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&nm_mc=OTC-RSS

WD1002FAEX vs WD1001FALS vs Intel X25-M SSD 80GB in RAID 0
http://forum.coolaler.com/showthread.php?t=231793

[damtachoa]

If you put 4 F3 in Raid0, it will hit over 400 MB/s.

[onethreehill]

WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 vs WD1001FALS-00E3A0 (2 x 500GB platters?)
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/sto...2_3.html#sect1

[andressergio]

Just got to test the Spinpoint F3 3xRAID-0. Performance is far from making the most of the drives, but whatever. Make the SATA6 would help here.

wow that's great for 3 in raid, wich stripe are you using ?

here's mine on 3 x 500GB Seagate 7200.11 using 128k RAID 0

[Johnny87au]

Seems like 2x scales way better then 3x

[jalyst]

Seems like 2x scales way better then 3x

Are you referring to the F3 1TB (HD103SJ)?
Or the prior poster's 500GB Seagate 7200.11?

[andressergio]

Are you referring to the F3 1TB (HD103SJ)?
Or the prior poster's 500GB Seagate 7200.11?

dunno

i went for a cheap option just gettin another 500GB used one an added to the raid, dont know if worth to buy those sammis, i just wonder if the I7 and mobo will help on that...im on P45

[andressergio]

well guys i went for this F3's and im very impressed, love them !





cheers
Sergio

[jalyst]

Just do a RAID-0 of 2x X25-V if you want a fast OS/Apps Boot volume (or 1x C300 64 or 1x Vertex 2 50GB+)
Then a couple of WD20EARS-00MVWB0 for Storage/BU. (3x 667GB platters instead of 4x 500GB)

[andressergio]

Just do a RAID-0 of 2x X25-V if you want a fast OS/Apps Boot volume (or 1x C300 64 or 1x Vertex 2 50GB+)
Then a couple of WD20EARS-00MVWB0 for Storage/BU. (3x 667GB platters instead of 4x 500GB)

thanks mate

i already have an Intel X25 G2 as boot and some fast app and very happy with the F3's raid

[jalyst]

Good for you! SSD + HDD = FTW!