WD Caviar Black drives combine a high performance electronics architecture with a rock solid mechanical architecture to deliver the perfect storage solution for your fully-loaded PC or maxed out gaming machine. Cool drive operation, no-touch head technology, and leading-edge vibration protection ensure enhanced reliability and sustained data throughput. And we back it all up with a 5-year limited warranty.

Features:

High Performance Electronics Architecture: - Dual processor: Twice the processing power to maximize performance. - 32 MB cache: Bigger, faster cache means faster performance. Rock Solid Mechanical Architecture: - StableTrac: The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations. - NoTouch ramp load technology: The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit. 5 Year Limited Warranty

Specifications:

Transfer Rates: - Buffer To Host (Serial ATA): 3 Gb/s (Max) - Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk): 145 Mbytes/s (Max) Physical Specifications: - Formatted Capacity: 1,000,236 MB - Capacity: 1 TB - Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s - User Sectors Per Drive: 1,953,525,168 Shock: - Operating Shock (Read): 30G, 2 ms - Non-operating Shock: 250G, 1 ms Current Requirements: - 12 VDC: Read/Write: 490 mA, Idle: 470 mA, Standby: 5 mA, Sleep: 5 mA - 5 VDC: Read/Write: 500 mA, Idle: 420 mA, Standby: 160 mA Sleep: 160 mA Power Dissipation: - Read/Write: 8.40 Watts - Idle: 7.8 Watts - Standby: 1.00 Watts - Sleep: 1.00 Watts.