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This review is for both the Western Digital WD Green WD40EZRX and the Western Digital Western Digital Black² WD1001X06XDTL. These Hard drives would best be used for business or gaming use. Game users would be perfectly content with how these hard drives perform.
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 (Western Digital).
The Hard drives we are reviewing are to be used with the GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 motherboard, which i have previously reviewed. I would recommend it being used predominately for gaming and professional use. This motherboard supports hard drives that have:
- Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
- 6 SATA 6Gb/s connectors supporting up to 6 SATA 6Gb/s devices
The WD Green WD40EZRX is a traditional internal hard drive that is manufactured by Western Digital. This Hard drive offers stunning capacity with 4TB of storage capacity. This drive also offers a great 64MB of cache. Users on Newegg described it as being “quiet” and having “silent operation”. This hard drive can be found on newegg for a price of $139.99. Here are some specs for this Hard drive:
- Size– 4 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- 2 year limited.
Overall this Hard drive has a great bang for your buck. It offers amazing storage and capacity for the price of the hard drive. Whether you use it as storage for your games or you’re looking for a fantastic drive to use for professional use, this is the one for you.
The Western Digital Black² WD1001X06XDTL is an SSD hard drive also manufactured by Western Digital. It is a revolutionary drive with 120 GB SSD. On Newegg users of the drive described it as being “Quiet” and “Painless to install.” This drive offers outstanding speeds with amazing storage. This Hard drive can be used to its full potential only on a gamer or professional PC. This hard drive can be found on Newegg at a price of $139.99. Here are some specs for this Hard drive:
- 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- 1,000,000 hours
- Warranty- 5 year
Overall this drive offers great speeds and capacity for the price it is listed at. Many users have been pleased with the efficiency and use of this drive. If you are looking for an amazing Solid State Drive (SSD) at a great price then this may be the one for you.
I would recommend both of these drives, as they are relatively affordable and fast. They should accomplish most any task a gamer or professional user would need them to as they are quality drives.
Works Cited
“For PC.” WD Black² Dual Drive – Solid State Drive + HDD Laptop Upgrade. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. <http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190#Tab3>.
“For PC.” WD Green. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. <http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=780&utm_source=WD+Red+redirect&utm_medium=collateral&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=product>.
“GIGABYTE – Motherboard – Socket 1150 – GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 (rev. 1.0).” GIGABYTE – Motherboard – Socket 1150 – GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 (rev. 1.0). N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. <http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4959#sp>.
“WD Black² Dual Drive 2.5″ 120 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD Kit WD1001X06XDTL WD Black² Dual Drive 2.5″ 120 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD Kit WD1001X06XDTL.” Western Digital WD Black2 WD1001X06XDTL Dual Drive 2.5 Inch, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB HDD Kit. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236642>.
“WD Green WD40EZRX 4TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive – Bulk Bare Drive Western Digital WD Green WD10EZRX 1TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5” Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive – N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236604>.
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