With newer Hi-Defvideo and audio formats becoming popular, games getting larger, and collec¬tions growing, you need more space, period. Western Digital plans to satiate your hunger for space with their new 1 Terabyte Caviar Black edition HDD.
This HDD is almost the same size of a 500GB HDD, despite the increased amount of memory platters. They managed to keep the height low by using perpen¬dicular recording.

The WD caviar comprises of dual processors for twice the data processing speed as normal drives, coupled with a massive 32 MB of buffer memory that ensures that you get the max¬imum perform¬ance. Along with Acoustic manage¬ment this drive also features Power management that allows it to power itself down when the drive is not in use or reduce its speed to a lower RPM when lower levels of performance are required.

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We tested the WD Caviar Black edition HDD for its per¬formance in real world sce¬narios using HD tach and SiSoft Sandra, and it did well, but not that much better. It gave us a random access time of 12.3 ms, while the average read and write speeds came to 81.1 and 92 MBps respectively, with CPU utilization at a maximum of 4 per cent. SiSoft Sandra gave it a Drive Index of 80 MBps, and listed the access time as 12ms.

To sum up, the WD Caviar Black edition HDD does perform well in our benchmarks, but doesJ;l't really stand apart from the crowd. At Rs 11,700, it's a decent buy for those who don't mind spending'extra for a marginal performance boost and some additional features.

specifications

32 MB buffer, Dual Processors, 1 Terabyte storage space, PMR recording technology.