Western Digital's 4 TB WD4001FAEX Review: Back In Black

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Western Digital has a new 4 TB flagship. Its WD4001FAEX is part of the company’s Black family of performance-oriented drives. Spinning at 7,200 RPM, it might seem at home in a high-end desktop, but our numbers suggest it might fare better in a server.

Benchmark Results: PCMark Application Performance

In our Windows-based application benchmarks, Western Digital's WD4001FAEX shows up right where it left off on the previous page: in the middle of the field. A couple of the sub-tests do show it in a better-than-average light, but the overall Storage suite score puts it under two Hitachi and two Seagate disks.