http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/ Engadget Comments for WD's Caviar Black and RE4 2TB drives get benchmarked, one is wicked fast http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
It was 640GB, sorry.]]>Dec 11th 2009 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
1. DO NOT talk about your mac on the blog - as u will get down ranked
2. DO NOT talk about your mac on the blog - as u will get down ranked

Im not gonna down rank you. Because i own one. (And yes i have W7 on it)

ON TOPIC: Me too, im tired of my 160GB in it. Gonna upgrade to 320 or 500GB ASAP]]>Dec 11th 2009 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/1. DO NOT tell others how to post - it will get you down ranked
2. DO NOT tell others how to post - it will get you down ranked

I won't down rank you because you have a mac

ON TOPIC: I would love to upgrade the storage but a RAM upgrade comes first (from 2GB DDR3 to 4GB DDR3) and then I guess the HDD.
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hahahahahaha]]>Dec 11th 2009 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
Multiple downrank FAIL!]]>Dec 12th 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 12th 2009 1:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
Yeah, yeah, I know 1 drive is better, but it's not cost effective right now!]]>Dec 11th 2009 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 12th 2009 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
Sure its a five platter, but $300 for a 2TB is BS.]]>Dec 12th 2009 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 13th 2009 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/7.4MB/sec faster read speed.]]>Dec 11th 2009 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
Seagates have had absolutely dismal reliability the past couple of years/iterations. At this point I wouldn't trust my data to a Seagate drive regardless of the price. ]]>Dec 12th 2009 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/]]>Dec 12th 2009 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 12th 2009 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/I mean why hunk down 300 bones for a 2TB sata 3 when the seagate sata 6 (obviously backwards compatible with sata 3) is the same price...]]>Dec 11th 2009 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
Because Seagate right now is not the drive to get, based on overall reliability. Maybe next year...]]>Dec 12th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
It's SATA 2 (3Gbps) and SATA 3 (6Gbps)... stop calling them SATA 3 and SATA 6 !!]]>Dec 12th 2009 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
And actually these drives were first reviewed back in EARLY SEPTEMBER!

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=775]]>Dec 12th 2009 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 11th 2009 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
Benchmarks have been out for months now.
Anandtech compared the XT and 2TB Black here http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3668&p=2

and even on a SATA 6 Gbps controller WD Black was faster.

not a wd fanboy or anything, but all the benchmarks are clear regarding Seagate XT. the SATA 6 Gbps interface is purely marketing.

what we need is SSD on SATA 6Gbps!]]>Dec 11th 2009 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Thanks for the link! ... agree that current hard drives aren't saturating SATA II, 3Gbps, quite yet but it's nice to see they are getting 6Gbps interface ready now.

Very interested to see a SSD, for sure. To design in the NAND parallelism necessary to meet 6Gbps will translate to $$$$ that I can't afford. All SSD today also use RAM caching scheme to boost burst rate, their real sustain rate is only good but not great....]]>Dec 12th 2009 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
No one uses full 2TB at a time. It's always just a working set of sectors that we access for a period of time. One only needs enough Flash in a hard drive to get similar performance of a SSD but at a much lower cost. I will go for a 2TB w/ 16GB flash for say $50 more if it have the SSD goodness at a heartbeat.]]>Dec 12th 2009 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=832]]>Dec 12th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
4 x 1.5 TB Barracuda's for $90 bucks each vs 3, 2 TB's @ $289 each.

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Although the abundance of streaming porn online is making me question the point of my bulk purchase. =p]]>Dec 12th 2009 1:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 12th 2009 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 12th 2009 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 12th 2009 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/]]>Dec 12th 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/
Sure it does! Caviar and a nice wine.... you are making me hungry!]]>Dec 12th 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/Dec 14th 2009 7:03PM