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Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB

 

Puget Description

Western Digital's Caviar Black line of hard drives offer amazing performance for a 7200rpm hard disk, alongside relatively large capacities. These make excellent boot drives, as well as fast storage for things like video editing. In trade the drives make a little more noise than other WD models, but still less than many other drives on the market.


Puget Professional Advice
Jon Bach (President) Says:
The black version of WD hard drives comes with twice the cache of the blue drives. This is a nice step up in performance, with no additional noise. It also only costs $3-5 more, so I'd definitely use the black drives if it were me.

Wilson Chau (Customer Service) Says:
Probably the best price vs. performance drive currently.


Manufacturer Description
Model: Western Digital WD6401AALS

Specifications:

Capacity  640 GB
Rotation Speed  7200 rpm
Interface  SATA2
Cache Size  32 MB
Form Factor  3.5 Inch
Idle Noise  25 dB
Seek Noise  29 dB
Bearing Type  Fluid
Command Queueing  NCQ

Description:

WD Caviar Black 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, and leading-edge vibration protection ensure enhanced reliability and sustained data throughput. And we back it all up with a 5-year limited warranty.


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