MX27676
Western Digital
1TB Caviar Black 7200rpm SATA III w/ 64MB Cache
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MX27676
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- SKU: MX27676
- ILC: WD1002FAEX
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My first WD drive to fail
1/10/2012 10:22:06 AMgordon from Calgary writes:
- Strengths:
- I have used nothing but WD drives for the last few years. This was the first one I have had that failed.
- Weaknesses:
- It only sees intermittent use. Must be a factory defect of some sort
- Summary:
- Drive failed after less than a year. Was not able to recover the data from it
Same as the others. go with price
10/14/2011 6:45:27 PMCarl from City of cows writes:
- Strengths:
- It's a mechanical hard drive "spinner" does what it's suppose to do.
Don't fall for the SATA III or 6GB thing. No mechanical drive ever will come close to those speeds. Only SSD will do it maybe in a few years and many price drops. - Weaknesses:
- They get hot and are louder than other brands. I had a DOA twice over 3 years from a total of about 14. One just died a few weeks ago after a year.
- Summary:
- Hitachi makes better drives and is becoming the new flavor of the month atm but honestly out of all the big 3 companies They are all pretty much equal. go with the lowest price.
Good Product
10/13/2011 11:47:14 PMShawn from Edmonton writes:
- Strengths:
- -STATA III
-1TB
-64 MB Cache
-Fairly reliable - Weaknesses:
- can get a little hot
- Summary:
- overall, i'm happy with it
Fast but Loud
10/8/2011 5:57:49 PMJoey from Calgary writes:
- Strengths:
- -Very fast. Playing BF3 Beta I can load faster than my teammates and get to spawn in a jet before the match starts.
-1TB feels like a bottomless pit compared to my 80GB SSD main drive - Weaknesses:
- -LOUD. Gave me a bit of a panic when I started formatting it and it started making clunking and ticking noises. I ran diagnostics and listened more closely and apparently this is completely normal for these drives. It's silent when idle, which is good, since it's only my secondary drive. I would not buy one of these for a primary drive simply because of the noise.
- Summary:
- If you don't mind having a noisy computer, get it. The speed is very nice and I have had no other problems with it. I'm also starting to like the "Whirr" noise it makes when spinning up or down when I turn my computer on or off.
Great drive
10/3/2011 9:48:48 PMDAVE from Calgary writes:
- Strengths:
- Reliable. Reasonably quiet. It does the job it's intended to do. The best drive for the price.
Much more reliable than any other make. When I want reliability I go for the WD Black. Period.
I've been bitten with Seagate and Hitachi in the past. Never with the WB black, so I keep on specifying WB black for my HDD's and have never regretted - Weaknesses:
- Uses a bit more power than the others in the price range.
- Summary:
- The best bang for the buck in the 1TB range without going to the Enterprise line.
WD1002FAEX
7/29/2011 2:42:06 PMBrian from Edmonton writes:
- Strengths:
- Reliable
Fast
Good value - Weaknesses:
- None that effect me
- Summary:
- I use 3 of these drives, 2 in Nexstar HD docks
Horrible, Stay Away From WD Dual Actuator Technology Crap
5/28/2011 10:31:05 AMCinco from Calgary writes:
- Strengths:
- Excellent hard drive if you are deaf.
- Weaknesses:
- Super Loud,
Super Annoying actuator arm noise,
Vibrates like hell - Summary:
- Take it from me and stay away from this hard drive. It is pretty much garbage.
This hard drive has Dual Actuator Technology. Therefore, this hard drive is double the loudness and double annoying.
Believe me, stay away from this hard drive. Go with any other WD or Seagate or Samsung or... that has only one Actuating arm and stay away from this so called dual actuator technology, unless you are deaf
Note, I believe all WD black hard drives >= 1TB have two actuating arms
other WD drives might employ this technology so do your home work.
Also, I noticed that this hard drive's actuator keeps on actuating and making annoying sounds even when it is not the main hard drive and not in use by any other program. This is ridiculous.
Super slow after 2 years
5/22/2011 8:59:50 AMHZH from Edmonton writes:
- Strengths:
- Pretty fast
- Weaknesses:
- Don't last
- Summary:
- The drive started to be super slow after 2 years' mild usage. Chkdisk and west digital dignostic tool take forever to run. It's good when it lasts and it's the first hard drive in my 6 hard drives that seems to be dying on me. Hope it can last before I can copy all my data out of it.
Two controller card failures in a year
4/21/2011 10:45:40 AMEnder from Edmonton Area writes:
- Strengths:
- Large cache, pretty responsive (until the controller card fails)
Price was right at purchase time - Weaknesses:
- Noise - makes a purring noise when accessed.
Heat - these drives seem to get hotter than I'm used to, could be that they're my first 1TB drives.
Controller card failure - all data was successfully recovered, but read speed dropped to 1/1000th of normal. - Summary:
- Bought two at the same time. Used one drive for 10 months in an XP machine, then the controller card failed. Used ddrescue to copy all data to the second so-far-unused drive (took three weeks thanks to the bad controller card). The second drive lasted less than a month before its controller card also failed.
Best HDD purchase I've made
2/5/2011 8:25:27 PMMike from Edmonton writes:
- Strengths:
- Comparably fast to its competitors (yes including SSD)
Cheap
64MB Cache
Relatively low heat
Memory Express pricing - Weaknesses:
- Noisy
SATA III not much better than SATA II - Summary:
- So awesome! I love this hard drive. You can never go wrong with more cache and 64MB will do the trick. It's noise brings back memories to some old 400MB hard drives I used to own back in the day and I've had much quieter hard drives since; your fans will drown out the noise so it won't matter anyway. I would for sure buy another for sure. It's GB/$ is so hard to beat.
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