As hard drive sizes continue to balloon, we are constantly bombarded with the one and singular question that guides our choice when it comes to the storage in our systems: Do we want a hard drive that has incredibly fast performance, or incredibly cavernous storage space? Though you can almost get that with the many 640GB 2-platter models that dot the landscape, true performance comes with drives like the VelociRaptor or any of the solid state drives out there. Western Digital is hoping to break that trend with their “Black Edition” Caviar hard drives.
This latest drive represents a split in Western Digital’s line of hard drives. Rather than having a “one drive fits all” product line for standard hard drives, they’ve split it into three separate channels. You already know about the “Green” drives, which we used in our review of the Thecus N3200PRO NAS enclosure and are designed for cool, quiet and eco-friendliness. The next in the chain is the “Blue” series, which is made to offer the best performance and reliability for everyday computing. Finally we come to the “Black” drives, which are claimed to be the crème de la crème of performance desktop drives.
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