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Western Digital Caviar Blue VS Caviar Black

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Uploaded by on Oct 6, 2011

I finally got a Western Digital Caviar Black Hard drive for my gaming computer. I figured I should make a video on my thoughts on what I think about the two hard drive's. Both are good drives in my opinion. The Caviar Blue that I was using as a OS/game drive was the WD3200AAKS with 16mb of cache and SATA2. The Caviar Black is the WD1002FAEX with 64mb of cache and SATA3.

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  • Not trying to sound like an ass...but...HDD have nothing to do with FPS. Nothing. It only would effect loading times from menu's. Once it's loaded from your HDD to your RAM the hard drive only maintains background information and game saves.

  • @KronicKillaz I understand. But in one game I did actually see an improvement. Not in FPS but just in how the game ran. GTA IV would have its moments were it would suddenly slow down and then pick up again. But ever since I installed the caviar black the game does run smoother. Like you said load times are faster.

  • I'm gonna be doing this shortly, running OS+games off my Caviar Black and using my 500 Caviar Blue for storage for music, movies etc, if you're doing the same how has it worked for you in the long run?

  • @llEpidemicll Haven't had any issues. Though I now need a bigger media drive lol.

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  • @nineheads1 wait a year, it will

  • When will the price drop, anyone know?

  • @simcoe76 Oh so that's why. I was wondering why prices have gone up so much.

  • @MrCGangsta This video was made/posted just days before Thailand's massive flooding starting impacting their high-tech manufacturing industries, including a HDD manufactures. As a good proportion of the worlds HDD's are made in the flood affected areas of Thailand and this has resulted in a shortage of HDD's (for the time being), which has driven up prices.

  • also u know win7 uses ram for catch so if u open a program the 2nd time during a session its much faster

  • why is this drive 160€ in germany....

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