***** Delivery / packaging *****
Was carried out as always quickly and easily. Even after Austria (although that often does not work for hard drives from Amazon). The hard disk was really packed very well and safe! (This is important for me to mention that I had read many reports of bad disks packaged in advance)
***** Installation / mounting *****
Worked smoothly; the drive is recognized immediately, SATA cable is not in course.
***** ***** Speed
I have tested the speed with CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3. The results were impressive:
Read (MB / s) write (MB / S)
Seq 209.5 167.8
512K 79.69 137.1
4K 0.966 3.397
4K QD32 2,995 3,573
Compared to my old WD Black 1TB - 4 years old:
Read (MB / s) write (MB / S)
Seq 103.6 78.71
512K 44.83 67.76
4K 0,595 1,913
4K QD32 0.846 1.951
**** **** Reliability
I investigate the disk for errors can (with the WD own program) and found nothing
**** **** Negative aspects
The biggest negative aspect is the high price. Other, equally sized Western Digital drives do you get a lot cheaper. Whether the Black justified that remains to be seen. Therefore, there is of me only 4 stars.
Another issue is the development of heat. The panel produces definitely more heat than standard hard drives (can be read), the extent to which this adversely affects the durability remains to be seen. Maybe you should start thinking to make cooling (chassis fan / passive cooler)
**** Conclusion ****
All in all, quite an expensive plate, but also brings a lot of power.
