Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 32 MB Cache, 7200 RPM SATA II WD1001FALS
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Customer Review: WD 1TB all over the house
Summary: 5 Stars
My switch from Seagate to Western Digital started with a WD MyBookWorld network drive that has now been running well on 5 years. Then we needed a larger disk in my son's MacBook laptop and went with a 7200rpm 320Gb WD Caviar Black. Then I needed SATA disks for my first home-built Windows-7 PC, and I read more about the reliability of WD Caviar Black and their 5-year warranty. I looked in my box of old computer parts and noticed a few dead Seagate drives, and only one dead WD drive. No matter what, you still take your chance with disk drives, but my luck with WD has been better than Seagate. So, I went with WD Caviar Black 320Gb and 1Tb drives. Then my son needed more SATA disks for a Mac Pro and his video production classes. The pricing of the 1Tb drives has been very good, so now they are being used all over the house as primaries and backups. A couple external enclosures later, and I have more 1TB drives in eSATA and Firewire enclosures, and a couple 2Tb drives replacing internal 1TB drives. (two MyBookWorld, two 320Gb, eight 1TB and two 2TB's.) I never imagined storing this much data, but a family full of music and videos and eBooks takes a lot of space and requires a lot of backup. And since speed is important, 7200rpm SATA drives are great for eSATA and Firewire. So far, so good (knock on wood). I have not needed to test WD's warranty or return policies on any of these drives.Customer Review: Adequately Packaged for an OEM Drive
Summary: 4 Stars
Alright - took a chance and ordered the 1TB drive. WD has a long history of making some of the better HDDs in the industry. This review will attempt to address some of the negative issues presenting by other reviewers. First - packaging: upon opening the box, the drive was in another box which was surrounded externally by three units of air bags (strips of three); the drive itself was "suspended" within the second box by the plastic end caps that basically "suspend" the drive from any contact. The source of the shipping facility was from Lexington, KY.
Next,unpacked the drive and formatted to 931GB; ran Hard Disk Sentinel for a surface scan overnight and no damaged or bad sectors noted. Copied a couple large files to and from the drive with barely any noticeable increase in dB output (the drive I received is relatively a quiet drive compared to the others currently in the system; two other WDs and one Seagate). Actually - the loudest component in the case is the fan cooling the graphics card - this is an older Radeon AGP model.
I am basically confident the drive will last; notwithstanding the possibility of some latent issue that may pop up within the next couple months. This is a great price for the capacity (1TB = functionally 9.5 cents/GB).
Interesting - the drive just increased in price by almost $10 since I reviewed it . . . now July 22nd.
Customer Review: WD1001FALS - Caviar Black 1TB Hard Drive - Fantastic!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB drive on my Mac Pro for well over half a year now.
It's a really great Hard Drive so far. The best internal Hard Drive that I've personally experienced.
The drive is big, very fast, cool running and has just a bit of seek noise.
"Seek Noise" is the clattering that can be heard when a drive is accessing data.
Fortunately, this WD1001FALS does have an "Acoustic Management" feature than can be adjusted by use of a Hitachi utility called "Feature Tool".
Turning the Acoustic mode "ON" does make the drive quite a bit quieter at the expense of seek time.
For use on a Mac Pro you do not need any additional cables or screws so the OEM or Bulk drive is OK.
Just open the case, pull out a Drive "Carrier", attach the drive with the screws already on the Carrier and slide it in. Start the system and use Disk Manager to set up the drive.
I even managed to copy my original drive directly to it with a minimum of fuss. (and then removed the original) for a lot more space and a little bit faster boot time.
As a whole the system seems just a bit snappier when opening apps, rendering or saving big files.
Someday, I'm going to get three more of these for this 4-drive system.
Have Fun,
Keri
Customer Review: Western Didital 1tb drive ****stars
Summary: 4 Stars
I recently had two 500 gb drives(wd5000ys) die in external premium My Books, and replaced them with this 1tb internal unit. Hopefully the reliabilty will be back to WD standards that I have always experienced. Drives are always quiet and fast.
THE BOX THAT AMAZON USES FOR THESE DRIVES IS FAR INFERIOR TO THE PACKAGING AND CARE I GET WHEN I ORDER A BOOK ON AMz AND WANT IT UNHARMED BY VARIOUS SHIPPING TERRORS. DRIVES COME PACKAGED IN CARDBOARD CUTOUT ARRANGEMENT THAT BASICALLY LEAVES THE DRIVE FLOPPING AROUND IN THE BOX!! WHY DO BOOKS GET BETTER CARE THAN A DELICATE COMPUTER HARD DRIVE? WORST AMz PACKAGING EVER. THEY ARE USUALLY AWESOME AT THIS STUFF.
Last note, if you have any of these My Book drives crash, it is not too terribly difficult to put a new drive in the enclosure. The tricky part is getting the goofy case apart. WD is not very good at telling you how to do it, or at least I couldn't find anything at the WD site related to it. You Tube probably has some guy on video showing you how to pull them apart. I managed it. Many of the varieties of WD My Book cases come apart differently too. I had a spare 400gb and put that in the 500gb My Book Premium case, and runs great.
Anything else new happens, I will update this. I took one star off for packaging.
Customer Review: Essentially plug & play
Summary: 5 Stars
The drive in question, Western Digital WD1001FALS Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 32 MB Cache, 7200 RPM SATA II WD1001FALS, is the Caviar Black, 3 Gb/s unit.
I installed it in an elderly XP system with SATA-1 (1.5 Gb/s) only ports and had absolutely no problem with the system recognizing, formatting, or utilizing the drive. For this installation, the 'force SATA-1' jumper was not needed on the drive (jumper information for this drive can be found on the WD website).
No heat issues have been noticed, but the computer case involved does have five fans (independent of the power supply) and thus has a good cooling air supply. The new drive also seems not to have added noticeable noise.
Formatting did take quite a long time as expected. In use, the drive performs well - certainly at or above the level of other drives in the system.
It is too soon to discuss longevity since the drive has only been installed for about two weeks at this point. However, I have had good success with WD drives in the past.
Packaging from Amazon was adequate. I would like to see a bit more padding, though.