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WD Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" SATA Internal Hard Drive
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WD Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" SATA Internal Hard Drive, 7200 RPM Rotational Speed, 64MB Buffer Memory

SKU: WD1002FAEX
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Review Summary

2013-05-13T21:00:00

Rated 5 out of 5

Great buy

WD black units are always great work horses. Just remember these are barebones. You need to have the screws and cables to hook up.

LARRY V.

WD WD1002FAEX Specifications

  • Rotational Speed

    7,200 RPM (nominal)

  • Buffer Size

    64MB

  • Average Latency

    4.20 ms (nominal)

  • Load/unload Cycles

    300,000 minimum

  • Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk)

    126 MB/s (Max)

  • Formatted Capacity

    1,000,204 MB

  • Capacity

    1TB

  • Interface

    SATA 6 Gb/s

  • User Sectors Per Drive

    1,953,525,169

  • Operating Shock (Read)

    30G, 2 ms

  • Non-operating Shock

    300G, 2 ms

  • Idle Mode

    28 dBA (average)

  • Seek Mode 0

    33 dBA (average)

  • Seek Mode 3

    29 dBA (average)

  • Operating

    32deg. F to 140deg. F (-0deg. C to 60deg. C)

  • Non-operating

    -40deg. F to 158deg. F (-40deg. C to 70deg. C)

  • Power Dissipation: Read/Write

    6.80 Watts

  • Power Dissipation: Idle

    6.10 Watts

  • Power Dissipation: Standby

    0.70 Watts

  • Power Dissipation: Sleep

    0.70 Watts

  • Dimensions (H x D x W)

    1.028 x 5.787 x 4.00" / 26.1 mm x 147 mm x 101.6 mm

  • Weight

    1.52 lbs / 0.69 kg

  • UPC Code

    718037762340

About WD WD1002FAEX

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Great buy

By LARRY V.

WD black units are always great work horses. Just remember these are barebones. You need to have the screws and cables to hook up.

The WD Caviar Black 1 TB 3.5" SATA Internal Hard Drive gives your PC or maxed out gaming machine a perfect storage solution with its high performance and rock solid mechanical architecture. Advanced features such as cool drive operation, no-touch head technology and vibration protection ensure enhanced reliability.

WD WD1002FAEX Features

  • NoTouch Ramp Load Technology: The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media, as well as better drive protection in transit
  • Dual Processor: Twice the processing power to maximize performance
  • Colossal Cache: Bigger, faster cache of 64 Mb means faster performance
  • Massive Capacity: WD Caviar Black SATA drives available with 1 TB capacity
  • Compatible: Performs tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in their FIT Lab and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give customers confidence that the drives will work in their systems
  • Applications: Power computing applications such as multimedia, video, photo editing and maxed out gaming computers. Desktop/Consumer RAID Environments - WD Caviar Black Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications

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