Western Digital 1TB SATA 6.0Gbps Hard Drives Seen For Sale – WD1002FAEX
It looks like Western Digital has announced SATA 6Gbps hard drives as a 1TB SATA 6.0Gbps hard drive with a part number of WD1002FAEX were spotted for sale in Japan by the site Akiba. We translated the article and found that the drive spins at 7200 RPM and has a massive 64MB cache. The maximum internal transfer rate is 126MB/s and the drive uses 6.8W of power during use and just 0.7W in a sleep state. The site states that the drive costs 10,000 yen, which is roughly $111.50. A WD Caviar Black 1TB hard drive (WD1001FALS) costs $94.99, so the SATA 6Gbps drive has a slight price premium.
The main specifications, disk rotation speed 7,200 rpm, cache size 64MB, maximum internal transfer rate of 126MB / s (cache – between disk), operating at average volume idle 28dB, “Seek Mode 0” at 33dB, “Seek Mode 3” At 29dB, the power lead / write 6.8W, Idle 6.1W, Standby / Sleep 0.7W.
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