Western Digital 4TB black disk is slightly inferior to Hitachi

The 4TB black disk that Western Digital announced today has begun distribution in various locations. The VR-Zone Taiwan sub-station got a piece of it, and it took the lead in actual testing, especially comparing Hitachi’s world’s first 4TB desktop hard drive.

Both the WD Black WD4001FAEX and the enterprise-class RE WD4000FYYZ are dual processor, 7200RPM speed, 64MB cache, SATA 6Gbps interface, the number of sectors are also 7814037168, the difference is that load / unload cycles, the former is 300,000, and then It has reached 600,000 times. In addition, there are SAS 6Gbps interfaces at the enterprise level.

As for the single-disc capacity, it has been confirmed that it is a single-disc 800GB and five-disc. It seems that the single-disc 1TB is still not mature enough.