Reviewers Liked
- Very fast, perpendicular recording technology, huge capacity
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Heats up, a bit noisier than WD GreenPower drives, expensive
Western Digital RE4 2TB SATA300 WD2003FYYS
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You may have just glanced a the price for Western Digital's RE4-GP and started wondering if the pricing structure has been caught in a time warp. All is not as it seems though, because the RE4-GP line are unusual hybrids – the Caviar Green...
By TechRadar onThe Western Digital RE4 WD2003FYYS boasts of a gigantic 2 TB capacity, backed by a massive 64 MB of cache and an RPM of 7,200. Just like the Caviar Black 2.0 TB we had tested earlier, this drive was not one of the coolest ones, but it was never...
By TechTree onThe Western Digital RE4 internal hard drive provides two terabytes of storage over four platters that spin at 7,200rpm. It’s power consumption doesn’t make this an environmentally friendly drive, but it has fantastic read speeds when...
By Good Gear Guide onAbove is a chart we put together that represents an (unweighted) geometric mean of the overall performance of each drive, based on all the tests we performed. Use this chart as a rough guide only, as we used an admittedly simplistic methodology to...
By HotHardware onThe specs, features and pricing make this disk apt for enterprises. * Test Bed: Gigabyte P55A-UD7 motherboard , Intel Core i5 661 (3.33 GHz) Processor, 2Gb (1800MHz) Patriot DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT graphic card, Windows 7 UltimatePage(s) ...
By PCQuest onWestern Digital’s HDDs get all of our praise. They are excellent in server tests, win PCMark, perform nicely under multithreaded loads, and rout their opponents in the defragmentation and WinRAR...
By X-bit Labs onBoth drives are capable of delivering higher throughput than a WD VelociRaptor, and WD’s 2TB Caviar Black and RE4 are even faster at PCMark Vantage, which runs the access patterns of popular...
By Tom's Hardware onThe new 7,200 rpm 2 TB drives from Western Digital, RE4 and Caviar Black, achieved the same performance level. They are a lot faster than...
By Hardware Secrets onCaviar Black 2TB: Western Digital is really pushing the envelope with this drive. They took the track geometry improvements seen in the RE4-GP and brought them over to their performance line. They didnt stop at a simple spindle speed increase. ...
By PCPer onLes modèles 2 To à 7200 tr/min constituent le nouveau haut de gamme de l’industrie du disque dur : Samsung nous a envoyé le premier Spinpoint F3 qui sera bientôt décliné en version 2 To, tandis qu’on trouve déjà deux Western Digital (Caviar Green et...
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