Well now that the Western Digital Black 2TB Hard Drive has been on the test bench and received a good testing, can it really be considered a “performance” drive? With the emphasis being on pure performance and offering a happy medium to purchasing an...
The WD Black 4TB Desktop Hard Drive (WD4003FZEX) offers some very impressive results in terms of performance without increasing the overall power consumption of the...
Now that the prices of SSDs have dropped to well below 50 cents per GB, we expect that only few Hardware.Info readers will still want to use a conventional hard drive as their primary storage device. We still can't quite live without them, however,...
While SSDs are the best choice in roles that need high speed (mostly boot drives for the home user), many people need large amounts of storage space, and traditional hard drives still give the best value per gigabyte. Four-terabyte drives are the...
The Western Digital Red family of NAS hard disk drives is quite an interesting enhancement of the Western Digital Green family of low-powered, slower-spinning hard disk drives (formerly known as the Western Digital Caviar Green family). It is...
The new Western Digital Caviar Black Edition 4TB is indeed faster than the original, but we'd argue that it's too little too late. The Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 series, while not available as a 4TB disks, is faster in every benchmark. If you need a 4TB...
Today we are taking a look at some of Western Digital’s high end 4 TB drives: the WD4000FYYZ RE enterprise drive, the WD4001FAEX Black Series consumer drive, and the WD4003FZEX Black Series consumer drive. Each one of these drives is designed to...
The new WD Black ships in 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, and 4TB capacities and is the company's updated offering in their high-performance, high-capacity line. The WD Black provides users with a reasonable power consumption option, as quoted power figures hit the...
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