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This is a review for both the Western Digital WD30EFRX and the Western Digital Black² WD1001X06XDTL Hard Drives. The Western Digital Hard Drive should be used for your home or business PC as opposed to a gamer PC and the Western Digital Black should be used for home or business PC as well.
Western Digital Corporation is one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers in the world. Western Digital was founded in April, 1970 and its headquarters are in Irvine, California. They employ over 96,000 people and their annual revenue in 2013 was around US$ 15.40 billion. In 2003, Western Digital created the first SATA drive that ran at 10,000 rpm.(Wikipedia)
The hard drives we’re looking at are to be used with the GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-OC Motherboard, which I reviewed a few weeks ago. I would recommend it being used predominately for gaming and professional use. We requested a quote for a 6GB SATA.This motherboard supports hard drives which have:
- 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors supporting up to 6 SATA 6Gb/s devices
- Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
The WD30EFRX is a traditional internal hard drive that is manufactured by Western Digital. You can purchase this hard drive on Newegg.com for $134.99. On Newegg.com, 46% of the people who left reviews gave it five stars. Users described it as being “quiet” and having “silent operation”. Overall I’d say this hard drive is pretty good for your money, considering how much it stores. Whether you use it as storage for your games or you’re looking for a quiet drive, this is the one for you.
- Size– 3 TB
- Speed– Rotational Speed Intellipower
- Access Time-64MB
- Read/write speeds-350 MB/s
- Transfer Rate– Buffer to host: 6GB/s Max
- Buffer– 64 MB
- Mean Time Before Failure– 1,000,000 hours
- Warranty- 3 year limited.
- Cost- $134.99 on Newegg.com.
The Western Digital Black² WD1001X06XDTL is an SSD hard drive also manufactured by Western Digital. It is a revolutionary drive as it is a dual drive with both 120 GB SSD and 1 TB HDD. On Newegg.com, 50% of the users who reviewed the drive gave it four stars. The users described it as being “Quiet” and “Painless to install”. The best part of this drive would have to be the speeds. Its a quite fast drive which could be used for home PC’s but would be used to its full potential only on a gamer or professional PC. This drive is also a good drive for your money, especially when considering the speeds.
- Size-1TB HDD + 120GB SSD
- Speed- 5400 RPM
- Access Time or Latency- 140MB/s
- Read/write speeds-350MB/s
- Transfer Rate- 350 MB/s
- Buffer-6 GB/s Max
- Mean Time Before Failure- There doesn’t appear to be one, just a five year warranty.
- Warranty- 5 year
- Cost- $219.99 at Newegg.com
I would personally reccommend both of these drives, as they are relatively affordable and fast. They should accomplish most any task you need them to as they are quality drives.
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