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

I purchased this drive to replace a failing one on a relatives Windows-based system. I also used the Acronis True Image WD Edition Software, downloaded from the manufacturers site to clone the old drive. I was half-way through the installation when I thought, What if I were just a general consumer and not a computer geek? In other words, what if my relative had ordered this drive and tried to replace the old one without calling me? It probably would not have gone well, as it arrives as just a drive in a box, with no documentation or hints of what to do. The documentation on the manufacturers Web site is fair, but maybe not enough for an average person off the street. With that in mind ... The installation went very cleanly. I had a spare SATA cable handy, which I needed during the replacement, and a SATA power Y splitter, which I did not need in this case. Those items do not come with the drive: You will have to purchase those separately if you need them. You may also need to buy 4 drive screws, but I personally did not need them for this installation either. I was going to use different software to clone the failing drive, but decided to use the utility provided by the manufacturer on their Web site. I Read The Friendly Manual and it worked very efficiently. After cloning, I removed the old drive and rebooted with only the new one. Everything was fine. I did not run any extensive diagnostics, but this new drive is relatively fast and quiet with no obvious defects so far. That was just a day ago, so I will leave my rating at 5 stars for now. Other reviewers have had quality and return problems after a few months and have submitted lower ratings. Hopefully, years will go by and I wont hear about any problems. The manufacturer makes kits providing additional documentation, cables and such if you need them -- but for me this purchase was a good option.

Wonderful HDD. Holds plenty and is quite fast.

Excellent product. Fast shipping. One informational caveat: Did not initially work for me, due to a power requirement I had not noticed before. I installed this in a 10-year-old Linux-based DVR system, and initially it would not recognize the drive. Learned that my power supply (12V 3A) was under-powered for this drive, in this system. Upgraded to 5A P/S, and drive now works fine.

item is good !

Working for intended use, moved from 5tb to 8tb… drive is almost full… black line needs some larger sizes.

Ive had two WD Blue drives fail on me, one laptop HD within 11 months ciritically and losing everything. I really hate losing data and admittingly dont backup anymore, per se. I used to run DLT4 backups daily on all my systems, but now I just clone drives when a drive sounds like failure is setting in. I also use gSMARTcontrol to monitor my drives. Yup, I could also drop files to thumb drives to backup as well and do that with truly important files. Anyway, the whole point is, I have a somewhat blind trust in these WD Black drives. They have a 5-year warranty, so I know they are expected to live longer than Blue, so why not pay the few extra dollars to possibly get a far better drive which probably has a far lower failure rate? I currently have two WD Black 1TB drives, and the older one seems to run hotter. Mind you the system these are in is an antiquated and not well set up box. Also, my office is ridiculously hot in the Winter, currently 85 degrees, and stays that way for about 2 months out of the year, since here in the South, Winter is really short and freezing cold days are sandwiched between Summer like days. Here are the SMART figures on my old and new WD Black drives: Item: Old and New Raw Read Error Rate: 0 and 0 Spin-Up Time: 1291 and 1875 Start / Stop Count: 349 and 97 Reallocated Sectors: 0 and 0 Seek Error Rate: 0 and 0 Power-On Time: 45140 and 7466 (5 years, 54 days, 20 hours) and (311 days) Spin-Up Retry: 0 and 0 Calibration Retry: 0 and 0 Power Cycles: 347 and 97 Head Retract Cycles: 170 and 46 Load / Unload Cycle: 349 and 55 Temperature: 49C/120.2F and 37C/98.6F Reallocation Events: 0 and 0 Everything else: 0 and 0 So, basically, the old WD Black drive have been going for over 5 years and has never had a bad sector or read error, even though it has been on the edge of boiling up. It, for some reason, is always running hotter. Ive swapped where these drives are installed and the results were the same. The old drive runs hot, but it still is going. I have been noticing a bit of a whine from the drive occasionally, but currently it is sounding normal. The newer drive which is about a year old has consistently been running about 10 degrees cooler. Id suspect it is time to replace the old drive, so I might just order another one of these today. If not a WD Black, Ill probably go for an HGST (a WD company) which according to some public information from cloud service providers has some of the lowest failure rates. Im also cautious about getting larger size drives, worried about failure rates spiking due to pushing limits. But that doesnt seem to hold water, Ive seen reports of the 2TB having a far greater failure rate than the 3TB or 4TB.

Bought for storage in a new build. No complaints.

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

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.

Western Digital hard drives are my choice when I pick a new hard drive. I used to live near their California HQ and was a former head of a large PC user group and learned WD has good quality. This drive is more expensive than others because i researched which one was good for handling heavy graphic read and writes when using video editing software and the file was on an external drive. This is a SATA drive and runs the faster 7200 RPM with a large cache. You have to either install this an internal drive, or buy an external drive case for this, with cables, etc. This is a do it yourself product and not for novice users. This drive is NOT a consumer product. You have to go to the website to get the instructions on how to format this drive, etc. That is what they mean by Bulk/OEM labels - it lacks any extras included with consumer hard drives in a box. You have to order the cables you need, and download the configuration software from the WD website, which is fairly easy to do. If you dont want to configure a drive like this, find a consumer external drive with the CD, cable, etc. and buy it instead. You need to know if your PC will handle large partitions, ie. 2 TB, or you have to format it with several partitions due to older operating systems. I did not buy a separate external drive box, but bought an Anker external open case with power supply and capability to connect to both USB 3.0 AND eSata connections. I did that because using the eSata port on my old laptop was much faster than 2.0 USB. But, I can move the box and drive to my desktop which has a USB 3.0 add in card. Both eSata and USB 3.0 are much faster transfer speeds than USB 2.0 and this drive can handle it. I have included pictures of the drive working fine in the Anker case so you can see both in use. Note: Hard drives have standard connections to the case or internal slot for power and data transfer. The ability to provide USB 3.0 or eSata connections is built into the case, not the hard drive. Both USB 2.0 and eSata require special cables, so dont forget to get them if you do this. In my case, since I used the external open Anker docking station, I didnt need cables. I just slid the drive into the docking slot and the connection for data and power was made. The Anker unit also has an on off switch. Of course, if you use this drive internally in your system, that is a different process and involves other tasks if you make it your primary drive with an operating system. I did not do that, so mine is used primarily for a video data file drive and has not been setup with booting capability. You cant go wrong with Western Digital. (Unless they sell out to someone,then watch what changes in quality). You can get this drive in 1 TB, 2 TB or 3 TB versions. I got the 2 TB version and it cost about 30% more than WD drives with lower speeds and features.