Western Digital 750GB Caviar Black SATA 7200 RPM 3.5IN 3GB-S Bulk-OEM Hard Drive WD7501AALS
Monday, March 2, 2009 1:25
Binding : Electronics
ProductGroup : CE
Manufacturer : Western Digital
Brand : Western Digital
Label : Western Digital
Publisher : Western Digital
Model : WD7501AALS
Studio : Western Digital
Lowest Used Price: USD $63.00
Lowest New Price: USD $70.75
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- WD Caviar Black high performance 3.5-inch SATA hard drives co MBine 7200 RPM spin speed, 32 MB or 64 MB cache, and SATA 3 GB/s interface for the ultimate in power computing.
- High performance electronics architecture features dual processors and bigger, faster caches for maximum read and write speeds.
- 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.
- 750 GB capacity holds up to 150,000 digital photos, 187,000 MP3 files, and 190 hours of HD video; 5 year limited warranty
WD Caviar Black high performance 3.5-inch SATA hard drives combine 7200 RPM spin speed, 32 MB or 64 MB cache, SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and up to 2 TB capacity for the ultimate in power computing. Backed by a 5-year limited warranty. High Performance Electronics Architecture: Dual processor – Twice the processing power to maximize performance. Colossal cache – Bigger, faster cache of up to 64 MB means faster performance. Rock Solid Mechanical Architecture: Dual actuator technology – A head positioning system with two actuators that improves positional accuracy over the data track(s). The primary actuator provides coarse displacement using conventional electromagnetic actuator principles. The secondary actuator uses piezoelectric motion to fine tune the head positioning to a higher degree of accuracy. 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. Massive Capacity – WD Caviar Black SATA drives are available in capacities up to 2 TB. 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. 5 Year Limited Warranty.
Excellent bargain on an amazing drive (2010-07-28)
Excellent drive - the generous 64MB cache in addition to the 72K rpm and SATA connection makes this a perfect drive for my media server setup. I bought this 2TB drive as my 4th drive for all the ripped blu-ray movies I have (no compression - full quality blurays). I watch it on my 46" Sony TV via my laptop's HDMI output. I have an external dual drive bay (Thermaltake blacx duet - http://www.amazon.com/eSATA-SATA-External-3-5in-Drive/dp/B001IOPIRM) that I use with this drive. The eSATA connection to my laptop provides ample bandwidth I need to watch a mounted bluray image file's movie without a single hiccup. And the generous cache has just been the icing on the cake.
Kudos to WD for the great packaging contrary to what some people grmbled about - the packaging was above and beyond what I'd expect for an OEM drive (most people don't seem to know the diff. between an OEM and retail drive and expect same packaging...however the packaging for this drive was of same quality as that of a retail drive). And kudos to Amazon for have packaged that WD box well inside their own box wrapped with bubble-pak...had only expected Amazon's packaging and not WD's own box and strong plastic drive holders inside the box.
I am hoping Amazon will maintain this price on this drive till I get my next one in a few months.
Very good/solid hard drive (2010-07-25)
I'm currently running 7 drives in my computer (a mix of 4 IDE's and 3 SATA's, using WD and Seagate among all of those). The latest of these is a 1TB WD Caviar Black hard drive running through a Vantec 6-port SATA II 150 PCi host card with RAID. After doing an exhaustive search of various Seagate and Western Digital drives in the 1, 1.5, and 2 TB range, I finally settled on this one because it appears to have the lowest failure rate out of most of the Caviar Green, Caviar Blue, and Seagate models I looked around at. I also took various reviews of the different models into account (on Amazon, TigerDirect, and NewEgg), not just technical specs.
I was originally looking for one of the Seagate 1.5 TB drives, but after reading about the bricking issues with different models (Barracuda 7200.11, ES.2 SATA and DiamondMax 22 drives) which I believe has now been remedied with firmware fixes by Seagate last year?), as well as reading about a high number of failure rates (and thereby low ratings and quite low prices - I assume because of the high failure rates) for the 1.5 TB drives on TigerDirect, NewEgg, and Amazon, I finally decided to dig around for any kind of a more reliable drive. The 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black is certainly less in storage than 1.5 TB obviously, but the stability is what I needed with my work (audio mixing, graphics, and computer programming). I needed something that would hold up. And, when I saw the 5 year warranty, plus 399 reviews with 4.5 out of 5 stars here on Amazon, 4.5 out of 5 on TigerDirect (28 reviews), and 4 out 5 on NewEgg (2490 reviews!), that pretty well helped me make up my mind with this getting this drive. I've now had it over a month and it's doing good. Still wishing I could've gotten a 1.5 TB drive, but with the amount of problems I kept reading about with the Seagate drives right now (Seagate usually being my choice), I finally had to go with this one. I'm just not willing to trust the 1.5 TB's of *any* manufacturer right now for that matter. Info on this one is WD1001FALS, 1 TB, 3.0 SATA, Caviar Black, Western Digital.
I also noticed that Western Digital has released a 6.0 SATA version of this drive, but I haven't read any reviews on it yet.
nice (2010-07-24)
I replaced an old hd on my hp pavilion with windows media with this hd. it installed with no problems, works great. sorry if I don't get technical but I just know it works great.
reliable product at valued price. (2010-07-21)
My 2 year old imac just died on me and it was the factory drive who failed. I had bad experiences with default Seagate drive, so I wanted to put in something more reliable this time, and this just serves purpose. Great product again from western digital.
Adequately Packaged for an OEM Drive (2010-07-16)
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.
