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. Cool drive operation, no-touch head technology, and leading-edge vibration protection ensure enhanced reliability and sustained data throughput. And we back it all up with a 5-year limited warranty.

High Performance Electronics Architecture

• Dual processor - Twice the processing power to maximize performance
• Colossal cache - Bigger, faster cache of 64 MB means faster performance

Rock Solid Mechanical Architecture

• 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
• 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

5 Year Limited Warranty

Compatible - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab™ and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems

Ideal for: Power computing applications such as multimedia, video and photo editing, and maxed out gaming computers.

How this WD hard drive protects your data

• Data Lifeguard™ is an exclusive set of data protection features, including shock protection, an environmental protection system and real-time embedded error detection and repair. WD's Data Lifeguard technology automatically finds, isolates, and repairs problems that may develop over the life of a hard drive
• Data Lifeguard Tools™ are software utilities designed for WD hard drives that work with the embedded Data Lifeguard features to make hard drive installation,diagnostics and repair both simple and worry-free. (Download Data Lifeguard Tools)
• ShockGuard™ instantaneously protects the hard drive against damage from bumps and vibrations while it is running. This technology enables WD Caviar drives to achieve industry-leading shock specifications

Formatted Capacity	1,000,204 MB
Capacity	1 TB
Interface	SATA 6 Gb/s
User Sectors Per Drive	1,953,525,168
Performance
Rotational Speed	7200 rpm
Buffer Size	64 MB
Start/Stop Cycles	N/A
Seek Times
Read Seek Time	N/A
Transfer Rates
Buffer To Host (Serial ATA)	6 Gb/s (Max)
Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk)	126 MB/s
Environmental
Shock
Operating Shock (Read)	30G, 2 ms
Non-operating Shock	250G, 2 ms
Acoustics
Idle Mode	28 dBA (average)
Seek Mode 0	33 dBA (average)
Seek Mode 3	29 dBA (average)
Physical
Height (Max)	1.02" 25.4 mm
Length (Max)	5.78" 147 mm
Width (Max)	4.0" 101.6 mm
Weight	1.52 lbs 0.69 kg