New Western Digital Black series drives.

Western digital after a few setbacks are set to release their new 'black' range of desktop hard drives. They are already released in Japan, and i was able to acquire the following information from a japanese forum:

Personally I find these results pretty disappointing -look at the results from my wd6400aaks from wd's 'green' line:



Obviously you'd expect results to differ based on the other hardware of the computer you're testing the hd in, but still, you'd expect their so-called 'performance' line, to have better performance, if that makes sense. My hd from their green line beats the 1gb black series drive in all benchmarks in hdtune (cpu usage is not a very accurate benchmark). Of course these are just synthetic benchmarks... but just my 2 cents

 

nice find, but if you want a fast desktop drive, you need to jump to SCSI and the 15,000rpm drives. They will give you average speeds of around 200mb/sec depending on the drive.

K-TRON

 

i was going to lol. But the cost of getting a scsi (or sas) hba and then getting an scsi hd would have been way out of my budget. sas drives have a bad size to price ratio anyway, although a few of them were going very cheap on ebay. I'd rather just raid two wd6400aaks.

 

Could you provide link. Id like to read it ..

 

http://bbs.kakaku.com/bbs/05302515903/SortID=7989467/