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

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.

The WDC hard drive this one replaced analyzed as okay though it kept blue screening on the Windows 10 Pro Core i5 computer it supported. Additionally the older 1TB WDC Black posted at 6 Gbps, but within the Windows environment was at 3 Gbps. No more !!, this 1TB WDC Black posts and presents in Windows with the WDC Dashbord Utiltiy at 6 Gbps and is teamed with a WDC Blue SA510 SSD. Both hard drives have breathed life back into my wifes computer.

At the moment its going great, just the noise, but personally it doesnt bother me, and Im getting used to it

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.

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.

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.

While looking for the best storage options I could shy away from western digital. Bye for the black series has proven time and time again that they are reliable in terms of your ability fast in terms of right speed and quiet. I use this storage device as a secondary Storage for my gaming set up. Although just 4 TB at least for now this is more than enough for my daily needs.

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.

Super fast shipping. Re-installed windows 10 on the new hard drive and my computer works sooooo much better. Amazinf what a difference this made.

Working good after 1500 hours so far: smartctrl -a /dev/sdd: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 175 174 021 Pre-fail Always - 2250 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 246 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1446 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 106 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 247 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 111 103 000 Old_age Always - 32 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 user:~# sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sdd /dev/sdd: Timing cached reads: 7414 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3708.38 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 514 MB in 3.01 seconds = 171.04 MB/sec user:~#