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Western Digital WD1001FALS Caviar Black Hard Drive
Western Digital WD1001FALS Caviar Black Hard Drives combine a high performance electronics architecture with a rock solid mechanical architecture to deliver the perfect storage solution for your fully-loaded PC or maxed out gaming machine. Cool drive operation, no-touch head technology, leading-edge vibration protection ensure enhanced reliability.
StableTrac
The Western Digital WD1001FALS Caviar Black Hard Drive has a motor shaft secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations.
Data Lifeguard
Data Lifeguard is an exclusive set of data protection features, including shock protection, an environmental protection system and real-time embedded error detection and repair. WD's Data Lifeguard technology automatically finds, isolates, and repairs problems that may develop over the life of a hard drive.
This Western Digital WD1001FALS Caviar Black Hard Drive Holds
- 424 two-hour DVD-quality movies or
- 1500 hours of VHS-quality video or
- 880 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or
- 373,000 vivid digital photos or
- 2132 action-packed games!
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Died in 2 weeks
Reviewer:
SBUI on
Jan 17, 2010
Customer Rating:
3.8
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Item works well for 2 weeks then experienced problems. However, transfer speed is not as fast as Seagate 1T Barracuda. Diagnostic software from WD was not able to repair. RMA as we speak. |
Solid Performer
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Duke on
Jan 15, 2010
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I have used WD Caviar for my last 3 rigs. The oldest is going strong after 5 years. Most recently I bought this 1TB WD Black. So far, no problems after 9 months of constant use. It runs cool, and noise has never been an issue. Next up will be a home network SAN with two of these puppies running raid 1. An excellent reliable product. |
Great for DVR external HD
Reviewer:
Adi on
Jan 05, 2010
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I previously had only Seagate HD but looking for a HD to use it as an external disk for my DVR 8300HD, most reccomendations were for WD so I bought it. The HD is working for 1 month great, it has no issues in recording 2 shows and playing a third one, is not overheating in its Vantec enclosure however, its noise level is a little too loud. I cannot say anything yet about its reliability. |
Bought 2, 1 died
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JoeH on
Dec 28, 2009
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I bought two of these, one died immediately, the other is fine. What attracted me to these drives is not the speed but the 5 year warranty and the fact that the spindle is attached at both ends. I replaced the dead drive with an identical one purchased locally and it was OK. I think this was just a fluke, I recommend the drive. |
its not Seagate
Reviewer:
Gordo on
Dec 28, 2009
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I had been buying the cheaper 500G and 1TB Seagate drives with 8 and 32M but after multiple failures I have had enough. I moved to WD black drives about 6 months ago and have not heard so much as a hiccup on any of my machines they are installed in. Thank you WD for helping me to rememeber why I used to buy your drives for so many years. |
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What You Should Know
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Need Screws For Your Hard Drive?
You know, not just any screw will do! For proper mounting, you must use the correct size screw. Fortunately, we have the right size screw for all hard drive needs. No matter what Hard Drive type, size, brand or application, we’ve got the screws, fasteners, punch-downs, crimps, and pins (as well as the tools you’ll need to install them properly!) Right here in our easy one-stop online shop. Hairpins and Duct Tape have no place inside your PC…get the job done right, by using the right screw for the Job!
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Important OEM Hard
Drive Note:
OEM hard drives do not include cables, software, or hardware (screws, brackets,
etc.). Full manufacturer's warranty applies.
Please Note:
In order to properly access the full capacity of an ATA interface hard drive
or partition larger than 137GB and properly support 48-bit logical block addressing,
Windows Vista , Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 are required. This
issue does not affect SCSI hard drives.
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Even The Best Hard Drives Die.
Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes
are witnessing an explosion in the volume of data they hold. Whether it is
the result of the Internet, email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich
application software, there is a massive growth in the volume of data all
around. Conservative estimates place data growth at approximately 80% per
year. Data is increasingly being recognized as one of the real assets of a
company, and losing this data would cause severe damage to any organization.
Data loss can be very costly, particularly for
organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the
difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover
from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a financial
impact on companies of all sizes:
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Data type |
Time to re-create 20 MB |
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Sales and marketing |
19 days |
$17,000 |
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Accounting |
21 days |
$19,000 |
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Engineering |
42 days |
$98,000 |
The financial impact on a company is a combination
of loss of business, low productivity, legal action, and the cost of
re-creating data. A study showed that the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of
data can be extensive!
Your best solution, is an external drive as a
backup. You can have multiple drives, and it is much easier restore
from a portable external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs.
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Today's Backup Options
With ever increasing hard drive sizes, how do you protect your valuable
data? CDs are only 720+ MBs, and even DVDs are limited to a few
Gigabytes. So what do you do to back up hundreds of Gigabytes? Here
are some great and inexpensive options:
- High Capacity USB Thumb Drives:
USB Thumb Drives are now
available in sizes as large as 64GB (soon to be even more). While
the USB interface is somewhat slow, these make an ideal solution for their
small compact size. Thumb drives are perfect for storing in files,
or other compact spaces. While their cost per GB is somewhat high,
their convenience, USB interface, size, and extremely light weight, make
them a very attractive option.
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32GB Thumb Drives or for
64GB+ Thumb Drives
- External Hard Drives
Now you have a wide variety of
options for external hard drives. 1TB (Terabyte) External Drives are
now available for less than $200.00. External drives come in a wide
range of sizes, speeds, and interfaces. They are available with USB
(the slowest), Firewire (medium speed), and SATA/eSATA (the fastest).
When selecting an external drive, it is important to consider how you will
use the drive, and the interface limitations of your computer. If
you have a laptop that only has USB ports, this would be your best
(possibly only) option. If you have USB & Firewire, get a drive that
has Firewire for the performance boost. If your system has a SATA or
eSata port, get a drive with this option - it will give you true hard
drive to hard drive performance.
However, also consider where you might need to restore the data. USB
is the most universal, in that almost all systems have USB ports. If
your system dies, and you need to restore your data, this may be your most
important consideration.
One last consideration is to keep your backup drive continuously
connected, or only connect it during backups. The general idea of
backups is to have a copy of your data in case your system fails - which
they do. But you may also want secure protected backups in a safe or
safe deposit box. Regardless, external hard drives offer an
outstanding solution for backing up your data, and the cost per GB is
quite low.
Click Here for External
USB/Firewire Hard Drives
- Hard Drive Docks (Toasters)
An incredibly simple, yet
functional new product category emerged in 2008: Hard Drive Toasters (Hard Drive
Docks). This device lets you plug in regular internal hard drives as
though they were pop-in flash drives. You drop in your hard drive,
and the dock instantly gives your system access to that drive, without
wiring, or power connections - it's all done by the hard drive toaster.
This way you can use any compatible hard drive as an external removable
hard drive for backup purposes!
Click Here for Hard Drive Docks
- Online Backup
Still another option is to use an
online backup service. These come in two forms:
• Backup to another computer over the Internet
• Backup to a central server using the Internet
The first of these can work very well, and automatically backups when you
are online. The Microsoft OneCare service is one example. It
can backup your data from your system to another in your OneCare account
across the Internet automatically, regardless of where you are.
The second involves trusting your critical data to someone else's servers,
and usually no real guarantee that your data will always be there.
If they loose your data, they just refund your fee. This service may
be fine for a couple of letters, but business critical data needs to be
accessible forever. For this reason, you are better advised to look
to a hardware solution that you control.
- Backup Software
Many products come with backup
software included, such as External Hard Drives, and Antivirus products
like
CA Security Suite. Most offer excellent features for automated
backups. But remember, backup software and devices, are only as good
as your willingness to use them! So backup regularly, and backup often.
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Serial ATA (SATA) hard
drives have become the new standard in hard drive technology.
Motherboard manufacturers now include SATA inputs on their boards.
SATA hard drives result in less clutter and increased airflow in the
computer system, because SATA cables are dramatically narrower than
EIDE cables. Some older computer system motherboards don't have SATA
ports, but a PCI SATA controller card can be installed to add support
for SATA drives. If you don't know whether your computer has SATA
ports on the motherboard, refer to your computer or motherboard documentation
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Curious About The Differences Between Seria
ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (Ultra ATA)?
As time passed, increasing hard disk
transfer rate demands have forced the ATA interface specification to be
continuously updated, to avoid becoming the limiting factor in disk I/O
performance. As consumers embrace new usage models such as digital video
creation and editing, digital audio storage and playback, file sharing over
high-speed networks, and other data intensive applications, demands on hard
drive throughput have increased even further. To keep pace, the
storage interconnect had to evolve beyond the Ultra (Parallel) ATA
technology. The current approach is Serial ATA: a serial implementation of the
parallel Ultra ATA interface. With this paradigm shift in I/O design, the
roadmap of ATA was extended beyond the theoretical limits of the Ultra ATA bus.
Click To Learn More »
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 Why Do I Have
Less Drive Space?
Your hard drive may show less space than the published specifications due to
a number of reasons.
- The way size is calculated and
displayed.
- Any "Partitions" on the disk will
change the total in a specific partition.
- Hidden files and folders decrease
available space.
- Compression increases the apparent
size, but not the physical size.
- Drives larger than the OS or Drivers
natively supports.
First, the definition of a megabytes
(or gigabytes) is a unit of data storage capacity measured in 1,048,576
bytes (or 1024KB). The larger the numbers, the more apparent the size
difference will be when listing the size as megabytes (or gigabytes) versus
bytes. Actually, both numbers are correct. The noticeable difference is due
to the 1024KB definition of a megabyte. This is why a 95.3GB hard drive can
also be listed as having 102 billion bytes of total space. Just think
of it as "round off" In the screen shot at right:
The first number is the total number of bytes,
the second number is based on the number of megabytes or gigabytes.
Second, some computers have a
non-DOS hard drive partition that is used for features such as Save to Disk,
Hibernation, or Recovery. This partition is not normally reported by the
operating system, although it can be viewed using a disk partition utility.
This is very common on desktops and laptops. NOTE:
Partition information will be created or
formatted automatically during initial system setup and a system recovery.
Third, by default, all system files
are hidden and cannot be seen. This may adversely affect the reporting of
available hard drive space. You can set your Folder Options so you view
system and hidden files and folders, but do be careful as changes to system
files can adversely affect your system.
Fourth, if you turn on Compression
for a drive, it will increase reported free space and used space, but since
compression is based upon the actual contents, this number is not fixed, but
will change as files are added or changed.
Fifth, older operating systems did
not support some of today's larger drives, so the total space reported may
be much smaller than the drive specifications.
It is also worth noting that bad sectors
are corrected by your operating system and can change the total drive space,
free space, or used space as well.
So as long as a drive is reporting a value
approximately close to the specification value, you can be comfortable that
you received the right drive and that you are getting to correct data
storage. Of course, tuning of your drive's partitions and options can
yield optimal values, but this is not something for the average user to
explore. |
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What you need to know before you buy; the inside scoop on what to look for in a hard drive. We reveal the hidden secrets about capacity, RPMs, buffer size and more!
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How to Install a Hard Drive
A Step-by-Step Guide to Clean, Fast, and Easy Hard Drive Installation
Easy to follow, photo-illustrated steps for your no-hassle hard drive installation.
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Issues With Your PC?
Here Are Some Common Problems And Solutions!
Of course, there a thousand little things can go wrong with an average
PC. But many problems are common, and have common solutions.
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