Western Digital 4TB WD Black Performance Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB Cache, 3.5 - WD4005FZBX

I needed a little more storage space for my gaming system and didnt want to reinstall the OS. I decided on this drive as Ive had good luck with them in the pass. This time I selected the 2 TB Black drive mainly due to the 7200 rpm speed and it would go well to replace a 160 gig drive I had a few things on. (Turned out I had more on there than I thought.) Anyway, installation was a matter of pulling the SATA Blue Ray burner out and then moving the old drive to the slot the Blue Ray had been in, which I did after taking the system into my work table in the kitchen where I do all my in case work. I did the switch as the old drive had stuff on it I wanted moved to the new drive. Once I got the new drive installed, I laid the old drive on top of the new drive after placing some cardboard in between to make sure the old drive wouldnt contact the old one and possibly cause a short. I then plugged up everything (KB, mouse, monitor, etc..), and cranked up Windows to activate the new drive and format it. These two things went off without a hitch and after changing the drive letter on the old drive to F, as I had four drive on of the system, and changing the new drives letter to E, as the old one had been, I proceeded to move all the folders one at a time from the old drive to the new drive. by using cut and paste. Since the old drive had a number of item that werent installed but merely copied to the drive this went fairly speedily until I got to the Program Files (x86) folder which turned out to be 101 gigs in size. An hour later, I had it all moved without a single error being reported. After checking the new drive by running a few things from it and making sure that all had copied off OK, I formatted the old drive and powered down the system and removed it and reinstalled the Blue Ray burner again and cranked things up again. The system came up running without a problem and the new 2 TB drive is now running as drive E on a three HD with burner system. I moved the system back into the Computer Room and hooked it up and so far alls well. I have gotten good results with WD drives and if I have to replace a drive or upgrade one to a larger capacity I usual get WDs. An increase in storage space and well worth the price.

This review is on the 8TB WD Gaming HDD. It is an OEM HDD, so no cables, no Acronis software, and no manuals when you purchase. The Amazon description should be adjusted to match this. You need mounting hardware if you dont already have it. You will also need a SATA data and SATA power cable. Other than that, great drive.

I added this to a ThinkStation P390 with ease. The SSD and the 4TB platter drive I got in the bundle have given me adequate storage for my 3D / Digital art content. That said, Ive trusted Western Digital/WD drives for years and am very happy with this purchase.

Well, my last WD Black drive only lasted 2 years, but thats the nice thing about the 5-year warranty. I got this one as a mirror. The old drive started chattering loudly at 100% utilization during virus scans and backups about halfway through its short 2-year lifespan. One day it finally failed - first disconnected itself, and then when I reconnected, it appeared as EMPTY. I first tried scandisk, and it fixed errors, but the disk now showed as full. I ran the free WD Diagnostics and it failed the short test, then on the long test, confirmed it had too many bad sectors to recover. I read online to run chkdsk and do the full surface scan. It took 2 days to chug through the drive, but I got almost everything back. I had a backup drive copy, too, but I had a couple of things from that day that werent backed-up...like my TurboTax file, which was almost complete (Murphys law). I got back the most important files, bought this newer version of the same drive (the free replacement is now its mirror), and restored everything else from backup. This drive (and the replacement for my F1002 model) are running perfectly well, and I cant hear them over the fans, which is a nice change. I have one piece of advice when buying drives: get the highest rated drive with the longest warranty possible that you can afford. I got this one on sale. I thought about the 2TB or even 3TB versions, but I already have a 240GB SSD boot drive, and another 1GB drive (a Seagate that was a replacement for one that lasted 2 weeks - this one is a lucky one...I can tell :). Not to mention, 5TB of external drives, and a 3TB NAS, so why risk a bigger drive? Bottom line: good drive - fast, and quiet, and I sleep better with a 5yr warranty and a good backup!

This will probably be my last old school hard drive till I build or buy another computer in a few years. Drive seems to perform pretty good but I probably would have been better off going with a little slower but more quiet drive. For the most part it isnt too loud but sometimes for no apparent reason it goes crazy. It went crazy when I decided to use a screen saver. Windows is on a small solid state drive so not sure why this hard drive was firing off when that was active. So I quickly went back to just blanking the screen out after so long. If its on sale and you rock headphones or play music/games pretty loud then you will probably be satisfied otherwise seek quieter options.

This hard drive runs very well, and noticeably faster than my older 2TB Western Digital Black hard drive, which this drive replaces. I think the performance increase is due to the larger cache. The new 6TB drive is my new Working install drive, and the 2TB is my new repurposed Storage drive. My OS is on a fast M.2 NVME drive. Physically, the drive installs just like any other drive in its class, and the BIOS recognized it without a hitch. My PC is six years old as a reference. After some planning, and the use of a couple of disk copy and partitioning software, the install completed beautifully. Note: you might need 3rd party software if you plan to copy an old drive and partition the new drive the way you want it. As for shipping, I was worried when it arrived. The packaged was a lightly padded bag which contained the hard drive box, which is little bigger than the drive itself. The bag was not even stamped Fragile as I thought it should. Good thing that the drive box was sturdy. The package arrived sound, and in good condition. My primary uses for this drive is for gaming and 3D art and animation. I am very pleased with the performance of this drive, and have not experienced any issues with it. Enjoy!

Its a WD Black. That should be enough said, but for the sake of clarity let me explain: Ive owned/recommended several WD black drives since around 2010 and never had ANY issues with them, even well past their warranty period. I still have two old 1TBs that work good as new. All WD black drives Ive dealt with have been rock solid reliable. Cant say the same about some competitors or even other WD product lines. Heres to hoping this (8TB) drive carries on the torch for many years to come! Ive read some complaints online about noise, and initially was concerned about it. I am happy to report that this thing is very quiet! No clicking, whirring, ticking or loud seeking noise when reading or writing to it. When backing stuff up to it all I heard was some faint seeking noise, and not much at that. Performance? Its reasonably fast. Its no SSD, but its no slouch either. Faster than some other HDDs I have lying around. To get a decent idea of its performance, see the attached screenshot. (Benchmark is from CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4 using Default profile). Would I recommend this over other drives? Absolutely. Would I buy more of this same drive? Of course! Overall 10/10 hard drive.

llego a tiempo, Producto tal como lo describen. y de buena calidad.

I bought this as a second hard drive. I got the black version because I use it for audio storage so I want extra reliability. Its been great. 9 months of daily use and no problems. Nothing to report - it seems fast enough as far as platters go, and it just works. Installation was a breeze. I did need a hard drive kit for a cable so make sure you have that. And make sure you have mounting brackets ready -- my case already had them, I just needed the cable.

I just opted for a refund today, as this drive failed in less than a year. It took me so long to return it because I needed the storage and I could sort of bypass errors and repair failures. Today the drive became completely unstable, I couldnt even open file explorer to transfer some of the files I needed to my other storage devices without my entire system crashing. Why do I ask if we are getting rejects, well I included pictures of why I think this. When I bought this product last June I dont think there were pictures of the faceplate and when I got the item with the exposed interface board, I just assumed that was part of the design; after all, there are plenty of exposed components in a PC. Plus I needed the storage and it worked fine for a while, so I still just believed everything was fine. However, a few months later I started having problems. I got errors in BIOS, startup was generally slower and sometimes wouldnt ever stop loading. Eventually, the drive would no longer show up in the middle of using it causing crashes, and most commonly disk write errors on steam. Obviously it completely failed today, losing me about 3.5TB of data. Now, I give this a 3 star rating because of Amazons return policy. Because I was able to process a refund so quickly and with no hassle, technically the issue was resolved, but the item itself is still either defective, or the manufacturers are supplying Amazon with their QA failures. My latter hypothesis stems from other products Ive returned and gotten replacements directly from the manufacturer. Typically, the defects I get from Amazon fail rather quickly, and when they are replaced by the supplier, they are of noticeably higher quality and last longer. In this case, I was apparently missing face plate (the now first product picture that has WD_Black and 3.5 gaming HDD stylized and engraved on it. Thats kind of an obvious discrepancy. I digress. The drive worked great when it worked, very fast and high capacity. I never noticed any noise either, but I also have my fans on full blast (I live in Phoenix, things already get hot for just existing here), so I dont mind noise as long as performance and safety are excelling. Maybe Ill give this item another go since the Barracudas are apparently SMR and not actually 7200RPM but 5400RPM, which is outwardly deceitful, and I think 4k sectors are better.