Western Digital Caviar Black WD2001FASS 2TB Review - Expert Reviews

Western Digital Caviar Black WD2001FASS 2TB

Intern HDD, SATA II, 2000 GB, 7200 rpm, 3.5 inch

Brand: Western Digital (Show all Western Digital Hard Drives)

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Expert reviews of Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA300 WD2001FASS

Review score distribution (out of 39 reviews)

90-100:

7
75-89:

7
65-74:

2
0-64:

2
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21

out of 100

Pluses, Excellent performance, High storage capacity, 2TB of storage loveliness, Solid performance

Minuses, A little noisier and hotter than the Caviar Green series, Can be noisy, Can also get hot,
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2012-12-13

Bottomline: It's not the cheapest 2TB disk, but if you want fast performance, this is the drive to buy ...

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Score
100%

2010-07-07

Good: Pluses, Excellent performance, High storage capacity

Bad: Minuses, A little noisier and hotter than the Caviar Green series

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Score
100%

2010-01-22

Bottomline: Unless you need the biggest, fastest internal hard disk available, there are better value alternatives available. ...

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Score
60%

2009-11-07

Good: 2TB of storage loveliness, Solid performance

Bad: Can be noisy, Can also get hot, Price

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Score
70%

2009-10-29

Bottomline: Western Digital's Caviar Black internal hard drive offers a massive two terabytes of storage capacity and speedy performance at a reasonable cost. James Hutchinson Lowest online price: £249.99 ...

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Score
80%

2009-10-07

Bottomline: WD has done sterling work to boost the performance of the Caviar Black with an increase in both data cache and areal density. The result is a speedy 2TB drive that unfortunately costs more than £200. ® More HDD Reviews... WD Caviar Green 2TB W...

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Score
70%

2011-09-05

Excerpt: A 2TB hard drive running at 7,200 rpm, the Western Digital Caviar Black ($189 list) offers a 64MB cache and an average latency of 4.2 millieseconds. The drive comes with a 6GB/s SATA connection, a minimum rate of 300,000 load/unload cycles and more. De...

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Score
-

2010-04-23

Excerpt: Armed with dual processors and a large and fast 64 MB cache, the 2 TB Western Digital Caviar Black is one of Western Digital's fastest desktop hard disk drives. Spinning at full 7200 RPM, this drive is designed for maximum performance, a fact that is ....

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Score
-

2010-04-16

Excerpt: Above 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 create these comparison numbers: All the test scores were calculated with equal weighting; we factored..

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Score
-

2010-03-31

Bottomline: The 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black is a good contender if you are searching for a high-capacity, high-performance consumer hard drive. Compared to the Western Digital RE4 and Seagate Constellation ES it ranks closely in speed and has more than accept...

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