In our home computers we often need more storage space for saving our precious photos, watching HI-Def movies or for installing the latest games, which are becoming larger and larger. If the drive is also speedy, we will see small speed boosts when loading applications. In the performed tests, the Caviar Black 2TB was trading punches with the Hitachi 3TB 7200RPM drive, which we think that is impressive.

The Caviar Black is supplied with a 5-year warranty, which is a very good thing since we have seen that a lot of manufacturers have decreased theirs to a 3-year period.

While the HDD motor is silent during IDLE, we should not expect quietness during seek; if we are planning to build a silent system, we would then recommend Caviar Blue or Green series, while sacrificing the read/write performance.

Overall, we would recommend this drive in gaming computers along with a speedy SSD to be used as a boot drive, or we can also save pennies by purchasing a smaller SSD, used for caching.

The Caviar Black 2TB can be found online for about 145 Euros.

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I would like to thank again to Western Digital for making this review possible!