NEW - WD Caviar Black 1TB

dragonfire · Post by **dragonfire** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:19 pm

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822136284

This appears to be brand new. Does anyone know whether this a 3-platter version of the 640GB model? I'm curious whether it's as quiet...

dragonfire · Post by **dragonfire** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:32 pm

Uh-oh. This doesn't look good.

Average acoustics (dBA)
Idle mode 24
Performance seek mode 33
Quiet seek mode 29

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/librar ... 701276.pdf

edit: The WD specs seem to all run a bit high. They list a 29dB seek for the 640GB drive as well...
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/produc ... riveid=394

Jasper · Post by **Jasper** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:44 am

Most of the black/blue/green drives appear to be rebadged versions of the current drives, same type number (WD6400AAKS-xxxxxx frex, down to the xes), simply with a new product name because they're dividng into green, black (performance), and blue (basic reliability).