Western Digital hard drives make its presence felt by everyone, who is in need of a high capacity storage device. The world of multimedia and gaming is growing on and there is a huge demand for high storage hard drives in order to store huge set of files and folders.
Caviar Black WD 1001
This demand made Western Digital to launch its Caviar Black WD 1001 FALS hard drive with a capacity of 1tera byte [TB]. This Western Digital caviar black 1001 fals drives combines strong mechanical architecture and high performance electronic architecture to solve storage demands for gaming machines and completely loaded PC’s.
Unique caviar black series from Western Digital:
Western Digital’s caviar series of hard drives are available in three colours namely green, blue and black. The first two products mainly focus on eco-friendly measures and power saving features. Whereas the caviar black series of hard drives focus mainly on the performance of the drive in order to satisfy users needs.
The caviar black series is ranked next to the Velociraptor group of Western Digital drives. No-touch head technology, advanced vibration protection technology and low noise operation level makes this drive more reliable for data protection.
Some key features of Caviar Black WD 1001 FALS:
Under the electronic part, this drive has splendid dual processor, which enables the drive to operate with high processing power in order to obtain increased performance. The Colossal cache of 64MB leads to faster performance of the drive.
Strong mechanical architecture includes the following technologies. The dual actuator technology helps in achieving high positional accuracy with two actuators. In order to reduce the vibrations produced, a Stable Trac is provided to secure both the ends of the shaft during the read and write operations.
No-touch ramp load technology makes the head to stay out of contact with the disk media, which reduces the wear of recording head and as well as the media. Number of tests performed on the Caviar Black WD 1001 FALS drive ensures that it works safely in users systems. These key features enables the drive to suit complex applications like gaming computers, video and photo editing works, storage and retrieval of multimedia files and folders.
Specifications of caviar black wd 1001fals:
This 1TB drive has a standard industrial cache of 32MB. It contains three platters under the cover plate with a capacity of 333GB each. It rotates at 72,000rpm during operation. The sustained transfer rate of this drive is 106MB/s. It has two SATA’s Serial ATA I and SATA II. A connector of SATA style only supplies power to this drive.
The width of the drive is 3.5 inch and the thickness covers 1 inch. Total weight of the drive is 690 grams. In addition, this 1TB drive have a peak transfer rate of 3GB/s. Working temperature of this drive lies between 0 to 600 C. When it comes for service, Western Digital offers a wide range of service. This drives comes with a limited period warranty of 5 years. The drive can be replaced if any external and internal damage occurred or due to mishandling problems.
The advanced technologies that save data in this drive:
Western Digital Caviar Black WD 1001 FALS has three kinds of technologies that prevent drive and data in the drive. The Data Lifeguard is the most prominent features of all as it helps to protect the entire data present in it from any damages. It offers a protection system for environment and shock prevention. Along with this, a real time embedded error detector and repair technology speaks proves to be essential. The main function of this data lifeguard is that it automatically finds, separates and repairs all the problems that occur in the drive over period of use of the drive.
Next, we have the data lifeguard tools. This data lifeguard tool is a set of software utilities that was especially designed for Western Digital hard drives in order to install, diagnose and repair all sorts of problems automatically.
Finally, the Shock Guard technology helps the hard drive to protect itself from unwanted bumps or from regular vibrations when put to use. This shock prevention specification is rated the safest shock prevention technology in the industry.