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

This review is for the 6 TB black hard drive. I have owned several different brands of hard drives and several different versions of WD’s hard drives over the years, including the greens, reds and purples. I have only have had one failure in that time, which happened to be worked hard, operating on a security camera server for a few years before failing. This is my first black as I wanted a reliable drive for backing up my desktop. These hard drives have a great 5-year warranty, which is one of the big reasons, I purchased this. I connected this drive to my Windows 10 computer with no issues. It took less than a minute to get setup and going. It was pre-formatted, so it was quick to a drive letter and get going. File transfer speeds are fairly speedy for a large size drive. I do think the drives are a bit pricey, but have come down in price over the last couple years. Overall, other than being slightly pricey, these are great hard drives with good speeds and good warranty that I expect to be reliable over the long term. 4.5 stars

Had a 2G SSD and 2G SATA in my Dell XPS 8940. My second drive was constantly getting full from Backup. This is a nice drive pretty fast and good price. It is a bit loud when my Diskkeeper program is running on the drive but normal operation is fine.

For the price you get a ton of space....a fairly fast read and write time and WD reliability. Good to compliment a SSD drive for those programs that you dont use all the time but take up a bunch of space.

Western Digital Black - What Can You Say :-)

First one was defective and returned, second one works with no issues so far.

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

I have yet to make a full review of the drive. Keep that in mind. That may take another year or two of continuous use. The drive arrived in a timely fashion, and it was no different from installing any regular 3.5 inch HDD. I intend to use it for weekly backups of my computer. Its still expensive to do so with an SSD, but so long as Im not in helium-filled territory, I should be fine.

Ordered this drive to expand the storage of my computer. It wasnt prime shipping, but it arrived much faster than estimated (delivered in 2 days!). The shipping packaging was very good, they used proper hard drive packaging. The drive was in a special holder and inside a separate box as well. It also came with an SATA cable, which was very nice. Install was just plugging in the power and data and running disk management. Everything running great.

In Nov. 2009, I bought a 650GB WD Black series HDD to replace a crashed disk. I specifically bought the Black series because of the marketing claims of better construction and reliability. Unfortunately, that didnt turn out to be true for me, since I had to buy this 1TB disk as a replacement just over 4 years later. Maybe I have high expectations, but a 4 year lifetime seems pretty poor. Luckily, I had installed an SSD as the boot drive a few months earlier, so the computer would boot and I could get email and use the internet to order a new HDD. I first noted the failure while I was running a backup - an obscure file couldnt be read. I deleted that file and tried again and more files were listed as corrupt. I ran chkdsk and it reported no problems as did the SMART ap. By the next morning, the disk was unusable. I reseated the SATA cables, swapped in new ones and change to a different power plug with no effect. I think the problem must have been in the electronics and not in the disk itself. Amazon got the new drive here in 2 days and it was decently packed. Installation was easy and restoration from a week old backup went smoothly. Of course recreating the week of lost work required a lot of time. The new 1TB drive seem fine, but it is still slow compared to an SSD. If you really want to improve your computing experience, buy one of those. But remember SSDs wear out (really) so make sure you back up your data so you dont lose everything. Of course HDDs fail too, so back those up frequently. I gave the drive 4 stars because I was not happy with the reliability of a previous product. Maybe in 10 years I will update this review and report excellent performance.

This drive was basically DOA. As part of a new Win10 build it would not keep operating. After as few as 15 minutes the system would crash. It took two attempts to even load the OS. Going into the BIOS the drive was not shown, although the other storage drives were. Changing SATA slots and cables on the new ASUS Z10A mobo made no difference as did changing power cables and ports on the new EVGA 750 PSU. BIOS updates did nothing to improve the situation. I reinstalled the OS on an older spare Hitachi HDD [fortunately I bought a Retail Win10 Pro] and it ran flawlessly. After several weeks I decided to clone the system on to this HDD and see what happens. It lasted less than a day before a fatal crash and the BIOS once again reported it was not there. I hate problems like this because it takes sooo freaking long to figure out that something is terribly wrong and now, according to Amazon, after only a month I cannot return this POS. UPDATE***********12/1/16 FANTASTIC WESTERN DIGITAL CUSTOMER SERVICE! *************** Since Amazon would not accept a return I had to deal with the Western Digital RMA process. Talk about simple! I only had to register the product online and then request an RMA. I received no less than two emails and two telephone calls from an actual US Resident inquiring about the problems I had. In two days they sent an email with a PREPAID shipping label. I received a new HDD in three days [they had already shipped the return prior to receiving mine]. Surprise of all was that it was a 4TB version instead of the 2TB I purchased and returned. So far the new HDD is running without problems. I surmise that the original HDD had problems with the SATA interface, which wouldnt show up on a normal Diagnostic Test.