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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years
The Western Digital Caviar Black 750 GB Hard Drive is a top-of-the-line high-capacity drive for your PC, running at 7200 RPM. Its dual processors with breakthrough 32 MB cache makes this hard drive suitable for high-performance home and business computing, as it can handle high-end data-intensive and multimedia applications.
This hard drive incorporates WD’s Data Lifeguard, an exclusive set of data protection features, including shock protection, environmental protection, real-time embedded error detection and repair. Its mechanism ensures automatic discovery, isolation, and repair of problems which may develop in a hard drive.
Pros: I'm not going to repeat what others have said. I'll say that Newegg is amazing when it comes to shipping. I ordered 1/23/09 & got it 1/26/09. I would have had it sooner were it not for the weekend.
I can say from my professional standpoint that WD has the lowest failure rate of all P/SATA drives. I won't mention their SCSI drives ;-)
The innovations that are included in this drive aren't themselves revolutionary, but in the combinations that they are used in this one drive make it brilliant.
Cons: None, see "other comments"
Other Thoughts: Let's make this clear: OEM drives DO NOT come with mounting hardware or cables. This is not a con nor should that be considered a failing on Newegg or Western Digitals part. Make sure you have your own hardware. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.
This is a high performance drive. IT'S GOING TO BE WARM. you've been warned.
To those who give a rating of one "egg" because the drive was DOA need to re-rate the item when the RMA is resolved. A DOA can be for many reasons & should not reflect the drive series as a whole. Actually this applies to ANYTHING you review. Those 'bad' reviewers need to remember to go back & make a review based on the working units performance.
Hard drives are rated in Millionbytes, not MEGABYTES. Therefore a 750GB drive will format to less than 700GB 750GB/1.073=698GB minus the normal bit loses from formatting. This is NOT misrepresentation of hard drives. Stop complaining.
Finally, do your own homework to ensure compatibility BEFORE you buy.
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So far so good......
Reviewed By: on 8/5/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: HD Tune: Transfer Rate: Min= 56.9 MB/s Max= 113.3 MB/s Avg= 90.9 MB/s
Access Time: 11.9 ms
Burst Rate: 127.9 MB/s
CPU Usage: 3.8%
Pretty decent stats, just as good as the 640GB Black Edition. Drive is running solid, silent and cool. Weighs just as much as my old WD1600(160GB) SATA I Drive. Got this with the 10 off discount, plus UPS shipped it without any damage. ^_^
Cons: Would have been nice to be a 1 or 2 platter design. An updated version of the WD software could help.
Other Thoughts: Hopefully Newegg ships HDs more like this more often to have less complaints. WD should make a Raptor version of these drive or a SSD version.
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Pros: Cache size (32MB) improves the performance of this drive dramatically. Upgraded from my cheap-o Seagate 500 GB HDD (16MB) with this bad boy. I bought another so I could RAID them.
Cons: In another post a fix was found for supporting Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER): To find it just Google the file name "wdtler.zip" that Western Digital made themselves. It's also pretty easy to find instructions for using it by Googling, too. Just be sure to plug in ONLY the drives that you want to have TLER turned on/off for, since it modifies all connected drives when you run it." This way you can turn it on to support RAID arrays. ;)
Western Digital is nuts for not supporting RAID off the bat, but the simple fix above is worth the time and the money you save!
Other Thoughts: For read/write speed increase, at an affordable price, I just enabled TLER myself. I suggest you do the same.
If you're attempting to setup RAID anyway, your tech level should be high enough to accomplish turning on TLER.
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Failure after just 6 months
Reviewed By: h2m on 2/8/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Quiet drive, quick shipping and great price. 5 year warranty.
Cons: I bought a pair of these and configured them as a mirrored RAID set... Now one drive has failed and I'm nervous about the other one going out. I had been buying Seagate Barracudas until they dropped their warranty from 5 to 3 years, but now I am regretting that decision. The last Barracuda I bought is still going strong after 2+ years in the same box.
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Awesome
Reviewed By: on 2/6/2010
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Got a great deal for this HD on shell shocker deal.
Cons: none
Other Thoughts: Just note that the 750gb has almost all (if not all) the features of the 1 and 2TB Hard Drives. The 640gb has less features, (from when I remember reading). Though, look this up, because things may have changed.
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Model
Brand
Western Digital
Series
Caviar Black
Model
WD7501AALS
Packaging
Bare Drive
Performance
Interface
SATA 3.0Gb/s
Capacity
750GB
RPM
7200 RPM
Cache
32MB
Physical Spec
Form Factor
3.5"
Features
Features
High Performance Electronics Architecture Dual processor - Twice the processing power to maximize performance. 32 MB cache - Bigger, faster cache means faster performance.
Rock Solid Mechanical Architecture StableTrac - The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations. NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit. Compatible - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab™ and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems
Ideal For Power computing applications such as multimedia, video and photo editing, and maxed out gaming computers.
How this WD hard drive protects your data Data Lifeguard is an exclusive set of data protection features, including shock protection, an environmental protection system and real-time embedded error detection and repair. WD's Data Lifeguard technology automatically finds, isolates, and repairs problems that may develop over the life of a hard drive. Data Lifeguard Tools are software utilities designed for WD hard drives that work with the embedded Data Lifeguard features to make hard drive installation,diagnostics and repair both simple and worry-free. (Download Data Lifeguard Tools) ShockGuard instantaneously protects the hard drive against damage from bumps and vibrations while it is running. This technology enables WD Caviar drives to achieve industry-leading shock specifications.
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts
5 years limited
Labor
5 years limited
Introduction
The Western Digital Caviar Black 750 GB Hard Drive is a top-of-the-line high-capacity drive for your PC, running at 7200 RPM. Its dual processors with breakthrough 32 MB cache makes this hard drive suitable for high-performance home and business computing, as it can handle high-end data-intensive and multimedia applications.
This hard drive incorporates WD’s Data Lifeguard, an exclusive set of data protection features, including shock protection, environmental protection, real-time embedded error detection and repair. Its mechanism ensures automatic discovery, isolation, and repair of problems which may develop in a hard drive.
Highlights
High Performance Electronics Architecture The Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS boasts dual processors and 32MB cache to deliver ultra fast read/write performance.
SATA 3.0 Gb/s Interface The Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS features the SATA II interface supporting up to 3.0 Gb/s data transfer rates, Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and hot-pluggable point-to-point connections for optimum performance, efficiency, convenience and flexibility.
WD Data Lifeguard Technology Exclusive Data Lifeguard data protection features include shock protection, an environmental protection system and real-time embedded error detection and repair. WD's Data Lifeguard technology automatically finds, isolates and repairs problems that may develop over the life of a hard drive.
WD ShockGuard Technology ShockGuard technology instantaneously protects the hard drive against damage from bumps and vibrations during operation. This technology enables WD Caviar drives to achieve industry-leading shock specifications.
Reviewed By: Ursan. on 1/26/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
