At the beginning of the year we saw the introduction of the power and energy efficiency behind the Western Digital 1TB Green Disc.  This really amazed us all as it romped on home against its main rival the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, knocking it well into the sidelines.   To date the secret behind the true spindle speeds of the GP 1TB disc are only known to the few.  A good set of guesses have been made, though just not right. 

A few months later and out marches the new 1TB RE-2 drives and these brought with them a huge leap forward within the professional and enterprise scenarios.  Some exceptionally fast results had been obtained from them as many will remember when we launched up the FireGL V7700 exclusive.   Just as we were getting used to the blistering new Western Digitals RE 2 Drives; along comes a nice new Caviar Black 1TB desktop disc with a scorching 32MB Cache.    This larger cache will offer many high-end power users swift transfer of large files with a breeze.   The Western Digital R & D team behind the Desktop and Enterprise drives have been working exceptional overtime producing such marvellous products.

The new 1TB Caviar Black hard discs are primarily designed for the professional desktop user who requires power, performance and, oh yeah mega gamer whose hard discs fill with all those patches and games galore that require excessive disc space.   These discs will most certainly satisfy all those thirsty requirements listed.

Hard discs of this nature now are being vogue with many end users and the demand for reviews with the discs in as powerful systems possible is the request of the day.   With professional graphic’s getting more powerful and demanding more disc space, it’s critical that the correct systems show the right hard discs, as there are some instances conflicts.   Here with showing exclusive first outings of the new professional graphic cards, it’s critical that the whole system I/O performs flawlessly.   Therefore with each new outing, you the reader knows, what is seen here – works.

Before we go on any further with the dialogue let’s have a few pictures to grasp the fantastic engineering that has gone into this most powerful beast to venture out from their prestigious stable.

Key Features of the Western Digital Caviar Black (Out Thanks to Western Digital PR for the information supplied here)

High Performance Electronics Architecture

• Dual processor - Twice the processing power to maximize performance.
• 32 MB cache - Bigger, faster cache means faster performance.

Rock Solid Mechanical Architecture

• 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.

5 Year Limited Warranty

Massive Capacity - WD Caviar Black SATA drives are available in capacities up to 1 TB.   * Quick note – if you pop over to here you will see a quick 3D presentation of the Caviar Black at work.  It’s worth the visit to see the video in action.

What does it hold is the ever magical Question?  Well according to the stats delivered from Western Digital PR people we see the following maximums can be achieved within each sector.

   Up to 285,700 digital photos
   Up to 250,000 songs (MP3)
   Up to 25,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
   Up to 76 hours of Digital Video (DV)
   Up to 440 hours of DVD quality video
   Up to 120 hours of HD video

Next we briefly look at the claimed Power Dissipation of the Caviar Black.

From previous outings we have seen the Western Digital discs power consumption getting less as each new release hits the market.  On our outing back in January of the 1TB head to head the new Green Caviar 1TB GP disc saw power consumption at an all time low.  This new more powerful disc is just slightly above those specs in some areas which goes to show Western Digitals firm dedicated commitment is on track to maintain a greener drive at all levels of performance.