WD Caviar Black Edition Hard Drives

"WD Caviar Black high-performance 3.5" SATA drives combine 7200RPM spin speed, 32MB cache, SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and an integrated dual processor for lightning-fast performance in demanding desktop, workstation, and multi-drive systems. Technologically advanced acoustics minimize noise and cool drive operation and enhanced reliability features help protect the drive and the data stored on it. With a massive 750GB of storage, these drives are ideal for power computing applications such as multimedia, video and photo editing, and maxed out gaming computers. Backed by a 5-year limited warranty.

- Capacity: 750GB
- Cache: 32MB
- Interface: SATA-II
- Spin Speed: 7200RPM"
Should that not mean 700Gb ???????????
You pay for 750Gb and get 700 after formatting......and the 1Tb is not 1Tb when formatted....so when someone says they have either of those then truth is they dont........true?
 
i see. Well i'm getting tempted by the 640GB WD as can be had for under £52 which is nice really, i'm holding out on more comprehensive reviews of the OCZ Core 32GB, need winrar extracting from 700mb rars and xvid encoding benchmarks but none of the 3 reviews out have tested these. If these 2 benchmarks are great i may buy a 32GB SSD + wd 640gb. If not i might hold out long for 320gb samsung f1's or maybe 750gb seagate (375gb*2).

slackworth.....

How come ocuk doesnt state the platter sizes in harddrive specs, would be VERY handy, you'd sell more drives with this info and it would be easier to see the difference between new 500gb 750gb models that are starting to come out. You could do with renaming the "solid state" section to "Solid State Drives (SSD)" so that noob's know what they are.
 
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clocka said:
i see. Well i'm getting tempted by the 640GB WD as can be had for under £52 which is nice really, i'm holding out on more comprehensive reviews of the OCZ Core 32GB, need winrar extracting from 700mb rars and xvid encoding benchmarks but none of the 3 reviews out have tested these. If these 2 benchmarks are great i may buy a 32GB SSD + wd 640gb. If not i might hold out long for 320gb samsung f1's or maybe 750gb seagate (375gb*2).

slackworth.....

How come ocuk doesnt state the platter sizes in harddrive specs, would be VERY handy, you'd sell more drives with this info and it would be easier to see the difference between new 500gb 750gb models that are starting to come out. You could do with renaming the "solid state" section to "Solid State Drives (SSD)" so that noob's know what they are.
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I've renamed the SSD section. :) With platter sizes it's a bit harder. The 3200AAKS for example didn't change codes but WD changed the platter sizes as we may find with the 750GB Seagate.
 
yeah but once you have confirmed that all shipments are of the new platter drives you should add this info and for all drives that havent changed platter sizes you should start adding the platter sizes, will help a lot of people when deciding which drive to get.
 
clocka said:
yeah but once you have confirmed that all shipments are of the new platter drives you should add this info and for all drives that havent changed platter sizes you should start adding the platter sizes, will help a lot of people when deciding which drive to get.
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It's not that easy to confirm though. What happens if we have one of an old model in the box of new ones for example? We sell thousands of hard drives a month, it really is impossible to check every single one for a batch code.
 
on drives that are actively changing platter sizes you could either not post the platter size or put this drive could be 160gb platters or 250gb platters depending on our inventory supplies. Then once you have confirmed that 100% of old platters have been sold then change it to the new platter size.
 
they wouldnt get the 160gb platter, you only state they are 250gb platters once all 160gb stock is sold and all new shipments coming in are 250gb. Until then you either dont post the platter size or say you may get a 160gb or a 250gb.
 
clocka said:
they wouldnt get the 160gb platter, you only state they are 250gb platters once all 160gb stock is sold and all new shipments coming in are 250gb. Until then you either dont post the platter size or say you may get a 160gb or a 250gb.
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The amount of work involved in checking every single hard drive in stock is considerably higher than you realise though. The e-tailers carry thousands and thousands of drives at a time. If a customer rings up for us to check one drive then it MAY be something we can do but checking whole batches of drive is a totally different story.
 
you wouldnt really need to check the drives though, if you use FIFO (first in first out) then once you have ran out of stock and a new shipment comes in with new platter drives then you will only have new platter drives. The only way this could be wrong if your warehouse picker picks a random drive rather than 1 from the oldest batch. Pretty simple really. I'm sure you could get WD etc to label the box with the platter size on drives that are changing the platter size too which would make it even easier.

At the very least you could do this for drives that arent currently changing platter sizes like the 640GB drives, the samsung f1 1tb etc. More information the customer has the more likely they will buy from you.
 
musicman53 said:
How come you had 500Gb after formatting?
Thought you lose around 30Gb or so off a 500 when formatted???
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google for Gib and GB. GB is a marketing thing where it makes it sound bigger than it is. It is using 1000bytes to a Kb instead of the correct 1024. this is why you "lose" space.

Because of this then getting into maionstream so much the computer industry had to start using Kib Mib and Gib etc to signify a "real" Giga Byte etc.
 
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