Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green and Black Hard Drives

HD Tune v3.50

HD Tune Pro 3.50 is an extended version of HD Tune which includes many new features such as write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting, folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file benchmark.

WD Caviar Green 2 TB SATA Hard Drive:

WD Caviar Black 2 TB SATA Hard Drive:

Benchmark Results: The WD Caviar Black hard drive beat out the WD Caviar Green hard drive in every test here in the HD Tune read benchmark except for one. It should be noted that the WD Caviar Green series drive was 5-6C cooler in the temperature department, which is important for those looking for a cool running system. This confirms that WD GreenPower Technology does indeed yield lower operating temperatures for increased reliability. It makes less drive noise, which was obvious from our testing by this, only our second benchmark. The WD Caviar Green series is aimed more for consumers looking for low acoustics levels for ultra-quiet PCs, HTPCs and external drives.

WD Caviar Black 2 TB SATA Hard Drive:

Benchmark Results: The WD Caviar Black hard drive beat out the WD Caviar Green hard drive again in the write benchmark suite. The WD Caviar Black had an average write speed that was 31MB/s than the Caviar Green hard drive, which makes it 39% faster!