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

Your typical, run of the mill, mechanical Hard Drive. This thing gives you a good amount of storage at an extremely reasonable price.

This drive replaces the older WD model: WD6002FZWX. Im satisfied with the performance and speed. Highly recommended for gamers

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.

This drive replaces the older WD model: WD6002FZWX. I attempted to buy the older model as a brand new item on eBay, since that is the model I was replacing, and I wanted to replace it with the same make/model. However, the seller sent to me a used item instead. I had to do a return, and then wait around for a refund. Then I went to Amazon to buy the newer model WD6004FZWX - and Im happy with this purchase. The drive from Amazon has zero hours of use, and only 1 turn-on - as checked by my hard disk diagnostic software - so the drive is definitely new. The one from Amazon is quiet, fast, and reliable - and comes with a five year factory warranty, which I verified by going to the Western Digital website, and checking the serial number of my drive with their warranty lookup service. This is a good hard drive for the money - and I should have gone to Amazon first - instead of wasting my time elsewhere, trying to find an older/discontinued drive model as a new item.

I have had good experiences with WD hard drives through the years. I dont have the money to purchase a large SSD so this drive was my comprimise. So far the experience has been really good. The drive is faster than the one it replaced. The new WD 3.5 6tb drive provides plenty of needed space over the WD 2.5 700gb it replaced. It did take me a while to divide into maximun partition sizes under Windows 10 which as far as I can tell is 3tb. So I divided it into two 3tb partitions one of which is the operating system. Someday I hope this limitation is overcome so that the entire 6tb can be one partition which is recognized as the system drive. Now durability is the only issue that remains unknown. The system runs 24/7 so it is burning in and in a year I will be comforted as to its future durability. This is why I only give it a 4 star rating. In time I hope I can give it a hearty 5 star.

A recurring problem. . . phantom behavior. Another customer review sums up my experience: Jeremy 1.0 out of 5 stars Be VERY cautious purchasing this item. Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2019 Verified Purchase I initially purchased this hard drive for my top of the line custom PC build. I had an expert put together my PC (i9 9900K, RTX 2080TI, Two 2 TB NVMe 970 EVO SSDs, MSI MEG Z390 ACE MB). Initially when I brought the PC home, everything was fine. This WD hard drive was storing a couple TB of my gaming clips and I had no complaints. After a week or so, I noticed my HDD was no longer listed in my drive list. I troubleshot the issue and wasnt able to figure out what was wrong. I gave up for a few days and noticed that all of the sudden, the hard drive was back in my list of drives. I hadnt done anything I know of to cause this. This off-an-on appearance of the drive happened several times until I contacted the professional who put together my PC - he told me that it was a defective drive and to return it for a replacement. I did this and received the same HDD as a replacement item. Almost immediately after installing the new HDD I noticed once again that it wasnt appearing in my list of available drives. Again it began to show up sporadically. At this point I figured it must be a problem with my setup or some other faulty component. I troubleshot this issue EXTENSIVELY. It finally came to the point where I completely uninstalled everything and installed a brand new motherboard myself. I was very excited to see that after I plugged everything in and booted up, my hard drive was listed in my drives. I had thought I fixed the issue, but then the next day the drive had disappeared again. I ordered a second, but am cancelling the second now, until I see more time with the first one. AUG 29, 2021 Update: I did cancel the second drive ordered. I have found no ASUS ROG Maximus with WiFi MB with i9 9000K EUFI changes corrects the problem, it remains a dynamic drive - sometimes visible, and sometimes not! Too much money for such an unreliable hard drive.

UPDATE 3/26/15: This drive will make audible noises when accessing the data on the drive, but it gives pretty good speed. Even with the third replacement, it makes noises, so Ill just have to deal with it. The speed is pretty great. I wish this wasnt as loud as it is now. It sometimes bothers to hear the drive making access noise whenever I launch Adobe After Effects, but I can live with it. ~Simon. UPDATE 3/17/15: I received the replacement drive to find out that it has a similar (ticking sound while accessing data) symptom. I resorted to calling the WD Customer Support. The customer service representative was really helpful. He told me that the problem might be the bad cable. I switched the older SATA cable with a newer SATA cable I happened to have on the computer to find the problem still existing, so I told him about it. The support said he will send me a third replacement drive since both of the hard drives are giving me the same problems. I was a little conflicted because that meant I will have to pay for an extra return label. I voiced my concerns to the support, and the support said he will make me prepaid shipping labels--two labels--for the two (maybe not-so defective) drives I have to return. Also, the some complicated and strict return instructions happened to be for the people returning hard drives in a bulk. Im just an end-user, so the support clarified that I can just return the hard drives in the original packaging. So, people, web replacement support may sound more convenient, but calling the tech support proved to be much better. At least for me and my situation. If any of you have some noisy drives, try switching the SATA cable to a newer one. Apparently, this drive works better and tolerably quieter with a newer SATA cable (thus, the two drives I have to return may not be defective). ~Simon End of update. Old review below. == Edit Start == Well, I think I gave a horrible rating at the beginning, but bad start is a bad start, I guess. At least the clicking drive worked. The shipping fee I have to pay for returning is around 7 dollars, which was what threw me off. Also, the billing address have to be the same as replacement shipping address. That also threw me off, deducting one whole star. Anyways, I hope no more problem exists with this new drive they sent me. == Edit End == This drive works, but its making abnormally loud clicking noises whenever it is reading off or writing on the disk. Its so much louder than my other (regular) hard drives I dont feel safe using Adobe After Effects with this drive. I submitted a replacement request through WDs website, but the steps there is just horribly laid out. Its not easy navigating through the website for support. Also, you have to pay the shipping fee for replacing the already defective product with WD. Also, WD is practicing some complicated and strict return instructions. I mean, come on! You shipped the clicking drive at the first place!

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.

If you need storage, this drive works well. Fastest sata drive out there. Not the best choice for newer games, you would want an ssd or m.2, but a lot of games will still run off this. Not to mention so much room to save movies, music, backups, etc. Very good addition to any pc.

This is a GREAT value if you get it on sale, the only problem with it is its only 7.27TB after windows 10 formatting