De heren van StorageReview hebben de Caviar 1000BB van Western Digital eens nader bekeken. Deze ATA-100 harddisk draait 7200rpm, heeft een capaciteit van 100GB (33GB per platter) en een cache van 2MB. Hoewel Western Digital zelf een seek time van 8,9ms opgeeft, blijkt uit de review dat 9,2ms een meer realistisch getal is. Echter, wat transfare rates betreft wordt alle concurrentie verslagen door de Caviar 1000BB.
Caviar drives tend to excel in the WinBench 99 Disk WinMark tests… the WD1000BB is no exception. Its score of 8.7 MB/sec in the Business Disk WinMark 99 is the highest we've recorded to date, edging out the previous record of 8.6 MB/sec set by WD's own WD800BB by a 1% margin. The 1000BB's High-End Disk WinMark 99 of 22.5 MB/sec is even more impressive, besting the previous record holder (IBM's Deskstar 60GXP) by nearly 9%.
[...] The Caviar WD1000BB delivers heat and noise levels on par with that of its predecessor, the WD800BB. Though it doesn't plumb the depths like drives from, say, Samsung, idle and seek noises nonetheless remain quite unobtrusive. The 1000BB runs warm to the touch after extended heavy usage.
Overall, Western Digital's latest drive is a package that's hard to beat. It delivers the best overall single-user performance one can get from an ATA drive along with respectable performance in entry-level server situations. But perhaps most importantly, the WD1000BB presents users with 67% more capacity than the competitions' current-generation drives. It's hard to argue with that.
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