Western Digital 6Gbps Caviar Black 1TB hard drive

Western Digital's Caviar Black 1TB is the first two-platter, 7,200-RPM drive to use the company's latest 500GB platters. The new Black is also WD's first step into 6Gbps SATA territory, so let's see how it performs in a battery of performance, noise, and power consumption tests.

-- . Regardless, the terabyte Black still offers the sort of well-rounded performance we've come to expect from Western Digital drives—even when you're not taking advantage of the drive's support for 6Gbps SATA, which seems largely pointless.