Hello,
I found the reason why this hard drive is slow.
This HDD, sold as a CAVIAR BLACK, has the “CAVIAR BLUE” specifications (Weight, aspect) instead of CAVIAR BLACK
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The weight of a real CAVIAR BLACK WD1003FZEX is 0.69KG ( http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771434.pdf))
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The weight of MY CAVIAR BLACK WD1003FZEX and also CAVIAR BLUE is 0.45Kg ( http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771436.pdf))
The case of a REAL CAVIAR BLACK:
The case of MY CAVIAR BLACK is as bellow (it is not my personnal one, but it is identical)
The case of the corresponding CAVIAR BLUE (identical except the color of the stamp!!!)
So it appears that Western Digital made “savage rename” on blues, and sold them as black. (weight is not in conformity with your specifications)
I am very disappointed, i bought this hard drive for high performance, and even in SATA 6GB, access time is 15.7ms on a Z77 with AHCI activated. This access time is “CAVIAR BLUE” compliant, not black.
I hope that WESTERN DIGITAL will react quickly and give us back the BLACK drives that we like, not a disguised BLUE!
