Western Digital WD1000BB - Taking Grand Prize!

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Conclusion

Western Digital did an excellent job with their WD1000BB. On their website, they promote it as a drive that has both high capacity and high performance. And they were able to keep this promise! Maximum data transfer rates of approximately 45 MB/s and more than 30 MB/s over 3/4 of the medium are excellent. In addition, the drive is currently the best performer in the Highend WinBench 99 benchmarks.

The WD1000BB currently is the fastest IDE drive available with both acceptable noise and temperature levels. Taking into account its performance and capacity, it is not even expensive at all.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.