Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA2

fullinfusion · Jan 28, 2010

Just like the title says, Is this a good HD?
Im asking because it's F/S locally...

Morless is it a better drive than my 320gb WD3200AAKS

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=551

lemode · Jan 28, 2010

fullinfusion said:
Just like the title says, Is this a good HD?
Im asking because it's F/S locally...

Morless is it a better drive than my 320gb WD3200AAKS

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=551

Yes it's better.
Yes it's a good hd.

Caviar Blacks & Samsung Spinpoints both use 32 megs of cache your Blue uses 8.

If you don't want to go SSD yet, Blacks, Spinpoints are where it's at for platter based mechanical drives.

Mussels · Jan 28, 2010

its the same as your 320GB, only double the storage space.

lemode: where did you pull blue from? last i checked the AAKS were WD blacks

lemode · Jan 28, 2010

Mussels said:
its the same as your 320GB, only double the storage space.

lemode: where did you pull blue from? last i checked the AAKS were WD blacks

Google the model #.

MoonPig · Jan 28, 2010

Mussels said:
lemode: where did you pull blue from? last i checked the AAKS were WD blacks

AALS is Blacks, AAKS is Blues, AADS is Green

kylzer · Jan 28, 2010

I have this drive

it has served me well so far

very happy

Mussels · Jan 28, 2010

MoonPig said:
AALS is Blacks, AAKS is Blues, AADS is Green

weird. i had some AAKS drives prior to the color coding system, assumed they were black - they had 32MB of cache as well.

DarkEgo · Jan 28, 2010

lemode said:
Yes it's better.
Yes it's a good hd.

Caviar Blacks & Samsung Spinpoints both use 32 megs of cache your Blue uses 8.

If you don't want to go SSD yet, Blacks, Spinpoints are where it's at for platter based mechanical drives.

Mussels said:
its the same as your 320GB, only double the storage space.

lemode: where did you pull blue from? last i checked the AAKS were WD blacks

The AAKS's or WD Blues use 16mb's of cache. The AAJS's use 8 and the AALS's are blacks that use 32. But you probably won't see much of a difference between them. I would get another 320GB AAKS for RAID 0.

lemode · Jan 28, 2010

DarkEgo said:
The AAKS's or WD Blues use 16mb's of cache. The AAJS's use 8 and the AALS's are blacks that use 32. But you probably won't see much of a difference between them. I would get another 320GB AAKS for RAID 0.

the 640gb blue utilizes 16megs of chache, his 320gb only uses 8...I think it even says it on WD's site...

fullinfusion · Jan 28, 2010

this is an older 320 sata II drive... I also googled the numbers and its showing Blue... but the black has 3 platters vs my current 2 platter... should I get it to replace my 320?
Im also looking for a bit better performance

Mussels · Jan 28, 2010

performance from one HDD to another tends to not be noticeable.

The only way you'll notice a difference, is if you split your load between different drives - EG, windows on one, games on the other. That way, OS activity cant slow game load times, and vice versa.

brandonwh64 · Jan 28, 2010

My WD5000AAKS has 16mb cache.

smashed_99cbr · Jan 28, 2010

they are a fine drive.... but not that much faster than what you got now...

your current drive is around 65mb/s read

the black drive is around 75mb/s read

a seagate barracuda LP (1tb or 1.5tb) 5900rpm is around 85mb/s read

a seagate 7200.11 (1tb or 1.5tb) is around 100-110mb/s

a seagate 7200.12 (1tb or 1.5tb) is around 110-125mb/s

so although the black drives are faster than your current drive they are not really all that fast

smashed_99cbr · Jan 28, 2010

brandonwh64 said:
My WD5000AAKS has 16mb cache.

so do the 2 I have

Mussels said:
performance from one HDD to another tends to not be noticeable.

The only way you'll notice a difference, is if you split your load between different drives - EG, windows on one, games on the other. That way, OS activity cant slow game load times, and vice versa.

agreed... put windows/and small stuffs on your old drive and everything else on the new drive

fullinfusion · Jan 28, 2010

I have an older ide barracuda drive that has all my games on it, I was thinking of yanking it out and replacing it with the 320 and use the black as the primary drive.

brandonwh64 · Jan 28, 2010

smashed.. you have a WD5000AAKS? if so is it forsale?

fullinfusion · Jan 28, 2010

One more thing and thanks for all the input guys :respect:

What program do I use to image the drive with my os to the new drive?
I dont really want to do a fresh os install.

smashed_99cbr · Jan 28, 2010

brandonwh64 said:
smashed.. you have a WD5000AAKS? if so is it forsale?

I have 2 or them... but they are currently in use.... I might sell them... they are only $45 or $50 on newegg,com

assaulter_99 · Jan 28, 2010

fullinfusion said:
One more thing and thanks for all the input guys

What program do I use to image the drive with my os to the new drive?
I dont really want to do a fresh os install.

you get one with the disks i assume. Anyways, there's always norton ghost.

fullinfusion · Jan 28, 2010

assaulter_99 said:
you get one with the disks i assume. Anyways, there's always norton ghost.

I'm not sure, I'm getting it new from some guy locally that put it up in the local F/S site.

I did a bit of looking around and found Acronis Migrate easy.... they say its real fast.

Norton :shadedshu

assaulter_99 · Jan 28, 2010

fullinfusion said:
I'm not sure, I'm getting it new from some guy locally that put it up in the local F/S site.

I did a bit of looking around and found Acronis Migrate easy.... they say its real fast.

Norton :shadedshu

Haha, yeah I hate norton too! Thats why I said, there's always norton :laugh:

kylzer · Jan 28, 2010

smashed_99cbr said:
they are a fine drive.... but not that much faster than what you got now...

your current drive is around 65mb/s read

the black drive is around 75mb/s read

a seagate barracuda LP (1tb or 1.5tb) 5900rpm is around 85mb/s read

a seagate 7200.11 (1tb or 1.5tb) is around 100-110mb/s

a seagate 7200.12 (1tb or 1.5tb) is around 110-125mb/s

so although the black drives are faster than your current drive they are not really all that fast

What? noway the barracudas are that much faster are they ? lol

fullinfusion · Jan 28, 2010

well here is my 160 Barracuda :eek:

I think its sllllooow

here is the 320 WD

slower yet....

fullinfusion · Jan 29, 2010

I just ran HD tune and the numbers are alot better with the WD Black

Mussels · Jan 29, 2010

Seagate 1.5TB

Samsung 1TB (90% full of data)

Just for comparison on how little speed changes from antique 320GB drives to modern 1.5TB drives.

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