WDs Latest "Black" Drives are coming to OcUK and are VERY Fast!

Hotwired · 6 Nov 2013 at 23:46

freemason said:
sorry but whats the difference between the old and new models?

i bought a 1tb black WD about 2 weeks ago.... just wondering which i actually have.... old or new model

regards,
dave.

Very slightly faster.

Check the model number.

freemason · 7 Nov 2013 at 01:22

Hotwired said:
Very slightly faster.

Check the model number.

thank you hotwired. I shall check perhaps I have the old one.... maybe if its only slight gain in speed i'll get over it. either way its a good drive

JasonM · 7 Nov 2013 at 03:20

Andrew Moore said:
Black is essentially an full fat RE drive with the odd feature lopped off. They are the fastest drives WD make outside of enterprise as a Raptor essentially is an enterprise class solution.

That's totally correct. The Blacks are RE's but with different firmware.

Blacks are really workstation drives, if your building a professional computer with high HDD activitity Blacks are what to choose. 5 year warranty due to better build over less expensive WD drives.

maklabouhlel · 7 Nov 2013 at 13:31

Damn, I only bought one a month ago.