| Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Black SATA 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD2001FASS | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $320.99
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Rating:  415 reviews
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Media: Electronics
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Number Of Items: 1
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Hard Drive Size: 2000
Size: 2 TB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 4 x 1
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: WD2001FASSSP
Model: WD2001FASSSP
UPC: 715663213437
EAN: 0718037749594
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | WD Caviar Black high performance 3.5-inch SATA hard drives combine 7200 RPM spin speed, 32 MB or 64 MB cache | | • | High performance electronics architecture features dual processors and bigger | | • | StableTrac - The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration | | • | 2TB capacity holds up to 400,000 digital photos, 500,000 MP3 files, and 240 hours of HD video. | | • | WD Caviar Black high performance 3.5-inch SATA hard drives combine 7200 RPM spin speed, 32 MB or 64 MB cache, and SATA 3 Gb/s interface for the ultimate in power computing | | • | 5 year limited warranty | | • | High performance electronics architecture features dual processors and bigger, faster caches for maximum read and write speeds | | • | StableTrac ? The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations |
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Product Description
WD Caviar Black drives combine a high performance electronics architecture with a rock solid mechanical architecture to deliver the perfect storage solution for your fully-loaded PC or maxed out gaming machine.
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 Fast drive, tons of storage February 25, 2009
C. Longo (New York, NY)
108 out of 116 found this review helpful
The Caviar Black model of drives differ in three ways from Blue in three major ways:
1) 32MB buffer vs 16MB. This means the drive is overall faster because it can store more data in memory local to the drive. So if you access the same data frequently there is little or no drive access to get at the data.
2) Dual processors vs single. This will alleviate the load on your CPU as the drive itself has more processing power locally.
3) Five year warranty vs three. Five years is a lifetime in hardware. Basically, you're covered for longer than you will most likely use the drive.
The Caviar Black line comes in three four sizes; 1TB, 750GB, 640GB, and 500GB. The 1TB and 640GB are the fastest because they use a denser platter technology which allows the drive head to get at the data quicker. The 750GB and 500GB are no slouches though and the differences in speed will not be noticeable to most people under most real-world usage scenarios.
Caviar Black drives are the fastest affordable consumer drives available today. If you want faster you have to look that the VelociRaptor 10000RPM line of drives but expect to pay a lot more for a lot less storage.
I measured the speed of the 750GB model using the HD Tune utility and access time was a fast 12.5ms with less than 1% CPU usage on my 3.2Ghz Intel Quad Core setup. The drive runs cool at 32°C in my system and is quiet. Overall a great drive at a great price. You can't really go wrong.
Beginner's guide to adding a second hard drive May 3, 2009
Sandstone (Salem, OR United States)
134 out of 149 found this review helpful
This is for people (like me) who've never done this before... I use Windows Vista and an HP desktop computer.
1. Ordered this drive, which arrived promptly. Drive was well packed with foam. As expected, it didn't come with anything else. It works fine, and to me it doesn't seem noisy.
2. Ordered Tripp Lite P940-19I Serial ATA (SATA) Signal Cable (19 Inches). Note: older computers won't support SATA. If you have a newer computer, it should work. SATA cables are red and about 1 cm wide, the older cables are about an inch wide and silvery. If your hard drive uses these, don't get this drive.
3. Ordered Tripp Lite P946-12I Serial ATA (SATA) Dual Power Adapter Cable - 4pin/2x15pin SATA - 12in. This is a "Y" adapter (optimistically planning for my next hard drive!), but a straight one would also work. I found out after it arrived I already had a SATA power adapter in my case. However, it wouldn't have reached with the available wiring length, so I still ended up using this.
4. In my case, the drive requires 4 screws to install it. These are short screws with large flat heads, the heads form a sort of "rail" for it to glide into the rack on. On opening my case, I realized that HP had thoughtfully provided extra screws for future upgrades! The drive does not come with screws.
5. Installed drive in rack, plugged in the two cables, no problem.
6. Get to Windows. Your new hardware icon should say "locating... installing" or something like that.
7. Go to Start-Computer (right click on Computer) - Manage - then to Disk Management. Find your new drive at the bottom of the screen, and click over the "drive 1" (or whatever) designation to make it "online". Then right click the long color band over the drive's partition graphic and start the "new simple volume" wizard. Stayed with the defaults.
That's about it, everything worked the first time. After the drive was up and running, I decided to error-check the drive from Windows Explorer (under the tools tab for drive). This gave the unexpected result of giving me a blank screen for several hours while it checked it. When I've error-checked drive c:\, my screen gives me information on what it's doing. This was just totally blank, which was disconcerting, but in a few hours it finished what it was doing and everything worked.
I also went into the BIOS on bootup (pressed F10 while booting, don't know if this is the same on other PC's) to see if I needed to do anything there, but I didn't. The new drive was already listed. I did get a new option on booting, to set up the drive in a RAID configuration, I left this alone. (non-RAID)
This is written to help first-timers like me. If any experienced computer folks want to comment and add pearls of wisdom feel free!
1TB of space, 32MB cache *PLUS* SATA2? Absurd. Buy now January 20, 2009
Gordon Ewasiuk (Washington, DC)
114 out of 127 found this review helpful
I bought two of these. Just an insane price. Thanks, Amazon. The drives are bulk/OEM which means they come with nothing. Just the drives and the anti-static bags. Do your homework. If you want software to hold your hand through a hard drive install, do not buy this drive. If you need screws, rails, or cables, do not buy this drive.
If you want to save some cash while getting an absolutely absurd amount of disk space with SATA2 (3Gbps) plus 32MB of cache (older drives have 4-16MB), then get these drives. They are beasts.
After the Seagate fiasco, I vowed to go with an alternative. Western Digital came through with these monster hard drives. Get one. Get two. You will not be disappointed.
Faster, slightly more "clatter" February 4, 2009
J. Poorman (San Francisco, CA)
52 out of 56 found this review helpful
I bought this drive for my Mac Pro (Mac Pros, at least when I bought mine 3 years ago came from Apple with WD 250 GB hard drives). I have installed about 10 WD drives, upgrading this time form the WD 500GB drives, and this drive with its 32MB cache is indeed a bit faster (10-20 percent) than the 500GB. The ONLY downside at all to this drive is that is a bit louder when the heads are seeking, with the drive seek "clatter" more noticeable than the previous 500GB Western Digitals I just replaced (I needed more storage). Not bad tho--it's just that my Mac Pro is absolutely silent and I notice the least little additional sound and never really heard the 500's, the 1TB I hear now--but don't get me wrong it's not bad and there certainly is no drive "whine" when idling--these are quite drives. I guess whizzing across 1TB of data is a little more strenuous on the heads. I have bought about 20 Western Digital drives since 2000 and not one has failed on me--unlike LaCie--ick.
WD 640 Black fastest 7200 RPM drive on the planet February 6, 2009
D. W. Dallam (California, USA)
31 out of 34 found this review helpful
These drives have been tested to be the fastest 7200 RPM drives on the market. If you do a search, you'll find tests that compare the 640 black to the Raptor, and they are within 10% or less of the speed of the raptor, and on some tests, pretty much dead even.
This review compares the Raptor 150 to the 640 Black, and it compares everything--write, read, transfer, sustained transfer, small file copy, large file, etc:
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If you buy two of these drives and run them in RAID 0, you get smokin' faster transfer rates than a single Raptor.
The upside is that this drive is 80 bucks compared to a raptor at 300. Also, the largest raptor is 300GB while this one is 640GBs. So you get 1.2TBs of space for 160.00 or about half of what a single raptor costs.
Also, the Caviar Blacks are the same build quality as the Enterprise drives, so you get the 5 year warranty. The only difference in this drive and the Enterprise drives is that the latter are tuned for RAID, while the 640 is tuned for desktop use. The tuning for RAID lowers error recovery to 7 seconds, while the error recovery on the 640, like all desktop drives, is a much longer 30+ seconds.
When using RAID, if your drive does happen to find a fault and try to recover it, after about 7 seconds the RAID controller will simply say, "Nope, bad sectors" mark the sectors bad and keep going. They are tuned this way to maximize performance on high volume servers where speed is more important than waiting for a non RAID drive to recover information. Other than that, there is virtually no speed difference between this drive and its Enterprise equivalent.
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