Test: Einzeltest: Western Digital RE3 1TB Hard Drives
Zitat: Pros: + Large Capacity
+ Extremely Fast
+ Fairly Cool
+ Low Power Consumpsion
Cons: - Noise Level is Noticable
- Price
While the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives showed better performance in some applications, the WD RE3 1TB hard drives surpassed the WD Caviar Blue 640GB hard drive without a problem. The RE3 performed much better in smaller file transfers that required smaller amounts of data to be read and written quickly. This was shown through the XP startup tests, where the RE3 had about 5-6MB/s faster reading speed. The RE3 also had a whopping 35.4MB/s increase over the 7200.11 drives in average read/write applications. This hard drive is an excellent product. Through thorough testing, there is no doubt that the Western Digital RE3 was the fastest of the tested hard drives. One of the comments I got from a friend when I was showing him how fast the RE3 hard drives were was “Oh My God, that´s Fast!” This was during the Crysis loading screen. It only took a few seconds to load a level, while on other single non-RAID hard drives it takes a minute or longer to load the same level on the same hardware. The overall noise level of the hard drives is alright. I have the Cooler Master Stacker case right next to a wall which reflects noise like an amplified speaker. Compared to the obnoxious reading noises of the Seagate hard drive, the WD RE3 was relatively quiet. It was quite louder than the WD Caviar 640GB hard drive, though. Tests in Video Editing applications were astonishing as well. Though this review used projects that were filmed in full HD (AVCHD) format, scrubbing through the video was a snap. The RE3 hard drives did not lag at all, but the Seagate hard drive (operating on a RAID0 setup) did show some slight lagging. Part of the reason for this is the tedious and computer-intensive nature of AVCHD editing, which is very slow on a single non-RAID setup. For large companies and businesses looking for high unparalleled reliability, extremely fast speeds approaching those of Solid State Drives, and best-in-class performance for servers, storage arrays, video surveillances, and other write-intensive applications, look no further than the Western Digital RAID Edition 3 hard drives.
