The 3.5-inch, 4TB, 7200 RPM WD Black (WD4001FAEX) is spec'ed with a sustained throughput of 154MB/s. The WD4001FAEX features a 6Gbps SATA connection and 64MB of cache, and also boasts of a 5-year warranty.
While price per GB is reasonable $340 is still a lot for a hard drive
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Overall we feel the WD Black 4TB presents a great balance of performance and capacity, and if the MSRP is met, price as well. With a massive 4TB capacity, consistently strong performance, quiet operating volume and a 5-year warranty we strongly recommend...
With a recommended retail price of around $429AUD (December 2012), the Western Digital 4TB also boasts a five year limited warranty which will give the user some additional piece of mind, considering the amount of data that you can store.
We have to be honest here. The Western Digital Caviar Black 4TB is a bit of a letdown. It came out more than 6 months after the Hitachi 7K4000 4TB , yet the Hitachi is faster, cheaper, quieter and more efficient. Granted, you get five years of warranty...
Western Digital has a new 4 TB flagship. Its WD4001FAEX is part of the company’s Black family of performance-oriented drives. Spinning at 7,200 RPM, it might seem at home in a high-end desktop, but our numbers suggest it might fare better in a...
It has been some time since we reviewed a hard drive and as we mentioned earlier that is partly because innovation in this industry has been almost at a standstill over the past year or so. However it is also largely because we have been focusing on...
For those needing to bulk up on storage for all those media files or other digital packrat behavior, 4TB hard drives are a welcome option. While in the market for some time as external hard drives, the 7,200 RPM options are finally becoming more...
After more than six months there are finally some more options among 4 TB disks. With the Western Digital WD RE 4TB, WD has created a high-performance 4TB for servers. This hard disk is not suitable for consumers. Not only because of the high price,...
Ever since its inception, the Western Digital Black lineup has been held in high regards by the storage enthusiast community. Getting to this level of respect wasnt easy. It took successive generations of drives which improved upon their...