Product Comparison: Seagate Constellation vs Western Digital Caviar Black
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General Specifications
Brand
Seagate
Western Digital
Model
Constellation
Caviar Black
Origin
China
China
About the Product
The fourth-generation, 3.5-inch Seagate Constellation ES drive for enterprise 7200-RPM environments enables cost-effective, highly efficient storage with the highest capacities, best-in-class reliability, leading 6Gb/s SAS performance.
WD Caviar Black high performance 3.5-inch SATA hard drives combine 7200 RPM spin speed, 32 MB or 64 MB cache, SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and up to 2 TB capacity with an integrated dual processor for lightning-fast performance in demanding desktop, workstation, and multi-drive systems.
Key Specs
Storage Drive Type
HDD
HDD
Cache
64 MB
64 MB
Capacity
2 TB
2 TB
Rotational Speed
7200 RPM
7200 RPM
What customers say about "Key Specs"
Seagate Constellation 2TB 3.5-Inch SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive
- No failures reported so the drive seems to be working fine at pretty high speed.
- I am very pleased with this purchase. Good drive and decent storage capacity.
- I'm really pleased to having the extra 2TB of internal drive space!
- After writing 1 TB of data, hard drive ticked over and started overwriting from the beginning.
- Slow transfer speeds and at times it puts itself to sleep in the middle of accessing a movie file over time.
Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA III Internal Hard Drive
- This wasn't a bad buy at all, it makes for great storage and active use.
- Very fast and love the storage.
- Well built, quiet, loads data quickly. It is faster than other WD drives in my machine.
- The WD Caviar black line is the best line of storage drives out there.
- Excellent hard drive and very fast. Good upgrade over the stock drive for the money.
Size & Weight
Height
1.03 in.
1.03 in.
Depth
5.79 in.
5.79 in.
Width
4 in.
4 in.
Weight
1.54 lbs.
1.32 lbs.
Seagate Constellation
Western Digital Caviar Black
Seagate Constellation
Western Digital Caviar Black
Seagate Constellation
Western Digital Caviar Black
Features
Form factor
3.5 in.
3.5 in.
Transfer Rate
140 MB/s
164 MB/s
Interfaces
SATA
SATA
OS Compatibility
Windows
Windows
Extras
High-capacity servers and external storage, Reliable and secure storage, Perfect drive for environments
StableTrac, NoTouch Ramp Load Technology, Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR)
What customers say about "Features"
Seagate Constellation 2TB 3.5-Inch SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive
- I bought two of these drives for a new QNAP NAS. They have been running non-stop for over a month now with no issues at all.
- It was literally plug and play without a single issue. My system detected it, formatted it and prepared it for use with no input needed by me.
- This drive worked immediately, no messing with jumpers required.
- This is a 2nd generation SATA drive and therefore not nearly as fast as current 3rd generation SATA drives.
- The drive can not deliver streaming to more than two HD devices not matter how I connect it - no matter what system it is installed in.
Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA III Internal Hard Drive
- The "Black" drives feature a longer, 5 year warranty, than the Red NAS, Blue, or Green models.
- I admit the smart features, and low power are attractive.
- Western Digital even provides some very well respected disk cloning software called Acronis True Image, for Windows users.
- Power cable and SATA cable snugly plugged in without a hitch.
- I have it connected in the 6 GB/s Sata interface in my Asus Sabertooth P67 mother board and rocks!
Power
Wattage
11.2 Watts
9.5 Watts
Warranty / Certifications
Manufacturer Warranty
3 year(s)
5 year(s)
Certifications
CE
CE
Other Information
Manual
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