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WD - BLACK 1TB Gaming Internal Hard Drive

Model: WD1003FZEX
SKU: 13017539
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Offer your customers the latest generation of the WD_BLACK Gaming Hard Drives to give them the capacity they need and the performance they want. With up to 64 MiB of DRAM cache and storage capacities of up to 10TB, the WD_BLACK Gaming Hard Drive maximizes drive and system performance, allowing your customers to spend more time playing the games they love most. Combine the WD_BLACK Gaming Hard Drive with a WD_BLACK SSD for a dual-drive configuration, enabling additional caching of the operating system onto the SSD for even greater PC gaming performance. All together, the WD_BLACK Gaming Hard Drive gives your customer performance, capacity, and an industry-leading 5-year limited warranty for an inspiring three-in-one storage solution.

Storage Capacity

1000GB

Features

  • Drive Your Game

    Perfect storage solution for your gaming rig, offering large cache sizes plus large capacities to store your favorite titles and their downloadable content (DLC). Paired with an SSD, the powerful drive delivers exceptional system performance and capacity.

  • Store More, Play More

    With capacities up to 6TB, WD_BLACK Gaming Hard Drives let you download the latest AAA titles while also keeping your ever-growing catalog of classics and favorites ready to play. Don't compromise on your game collection. Store more and game more with WD_BLACK.

  • Increased Reliability

    Equipped with StableTrac Technology. This secures the motor shaft inside of the hard drive to increase reliability and help reduce impact due to system-induced vibrations from other components such as additional gaming hardware. Stabilizing the platters inside the WD_BLACK drive results in more accurate tracking in a particular sector during read and write operations, optimizing performance and reliability.

  • Commanding Performance

    Drive delivers high-speed read rates and transfers of your games with impressive cache sizes of up to 64 MiB of DRAM on our high-capacity models. Western Digital’s Dynamic Cache Technology improves caching algorithms in real time to allocate and optimize cache between reads and writes. Spend less time loading and more time winning.

  • Battle-Tested Dual Processor

    When it comes to processing power, more is better for loading today's larger games. The WD_BLACK Gaming Hard Drive features a dual-core processor that offers twice the processing capability as a single-core processor to help maximize drive performance for geting into the game faster.

  • An Industry-Leading 5-Year Limited Warranty

    Compared to standard hard drives, our WD_BLACK Gaming Hard Drives pass more strenuous and aggressive internal testing over a longer period of time which is why the WD_BLACK drive is backed by an industry-leading 5-year limited warranty.

Specifications

  • Storage Capacity
    1000 gigabytes
    Storage Drive Type
    HDD
    Rotational Speed
    7200 revolutions per minute
    Maximum Read Speed
    150 megabytes per second
    Maximum Write Speed
    150 megabytes per second
    Form Factor
    3.5 in.
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  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Fastest and most reliable mechanical drive

    As always these are the best mechanical hard drives you can get. My opinion based on using WD drives for many years. I currently personally have over 20 WD Blacks in use. 6 of which are these 1003EFX. This one I bought a couple days ago. I have been using 5 of these in RAID 0 in an X99 workstation for over 3 years with no issue using a correct Intel hardware RAID in the X99 UEFI. I wanted to get a 6th to utilize all 6 ports available for RAID. So I purchased this last one at my Best Buy Store to complete my 6TB super fast drive array. more cost effective then any SSD, and NO worry of electronic discharge to data loss. The system has a total of 9 Western Digital Hard Drives and 3 SSDs. 6 WD Black 1TB (RAID 0) 1 WD RED 4TB 1 WD Black 2TB 1 WD Blue 640GB 1WD SN750 EK NVMe SSD 1 Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB 1 Samsung 850 PRO SATA SSD Approx: 15TB of storage. I will post some images below of benchmarks with 1 drive, vs 6 in raid 0.

    This review is from WD - BLACK 1TB Gaming Internal Hard Drive

    Posted by MrScary

  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    It was a very good quality drive it worked out rea

    It was a very good quality drive it worked out rea

    This review is from WD - BLACK 1TB Gaming Internal Hard Drive

    Posted by cwille

  • Rated 1 out of 5 stars

    My unluckiest hard drive ever

    This particular hard drive worked fine but literately stopped working 30 days after I purchased it. This hard drive literately stopped working last morning, tried to return it to the manufacturer only so I get a false message that the warranty has been void despite that it is still under a 5 year warranty, plus I have not opened the hard drive at all. I never came accross a brand new hard drive that came defective, and this is the first time I had to deal with such thing. Hard drive is no longer being detected by my computer's BIOS and I had to go as far as testing the same hard drive on other computers, both internally and externally with the help of an external SATA to USB cable, but hard drive both gets undetected by their BIOS or if using a Windows PC, it will detect it as a hard drive with 0 MB of space in it. Beware of this hard drive! If you want to buy this particular hard drive model, good luck with your hard drive because it seems to me that this model will likely come defective. I highly suggest you do your research and look for similar complaints for the same hard drive model before you even take my word. As far as I can remember, this is the unluckiest hard drive purchase I ever had.

    This review is from WD - BLACK 1TB Gaming Internal Hard Drive

    Posted by RenegadesFM

  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great performing desktop hard drive!

    I wanted a SATA hard drive for data storage in a new PC that came with a 256 GB solid state drive... This Western Digital is fast, includes a large cache, and comes with a good warranty... Installation and preparation was a breeze... great drive for the money... I'm very pleased with it so far.

    This review is from WD - BLACK 1TB Gaming Internal Hard Drive

    Posted by CC59

  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Very Fast and Reliable

    The fact that this drive is guaranteed for 5 years and is very quiet and fast, you can't beat this drive. Also, the price was reasonable.

    This review is from WD - BLACK 1TB Gaming Internal Hard Drive

    Posted by cspern

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Questions & Answers

  • Just wondering why this drive shows up as JMicron as the manufacture instead of WD in the windows drive properties? Purchased this brand new here online, factory sealed, but makes me wonder if it is a reconditioned drive. This is a 1TB black. Thanks.

    JMicron is a manufacturer of external hdd enclosure electronics. you are seeing the usb device not the hdd. Most USB ports do not provide enough power for the full size 3.5" hard drive so it will never initialize

    Answered by ThomasFi

  • This hard drive will work sata II desktop?

    Yes. It's actually comparable up to SATA III, so anything below that, it is also compatable with.

    Answered by Michael

  • Which is better for gaming? this as a main hard drive or the WD - Mainstream, which is half the cost and boast 6000 megabytes per second apposed to this ones 600. Seems the cheaper one is better I just wanted to make sure I was correct.

    The WD Black is a 6 Gb/s SATA hard drive. That would be 6000 Mb/s. It also spins at 7200 RPM. Some of the less expensive drives spin at 4800 RPM, so loading files will be slower on those (4800 RPM) drives. This drive also has 64 Mb of cache. Not sure about other WD drives, but I believe the 2.5" drives usually have less cache than the 3.5" drives. If you go for a 3.5" drive, make sure you have a 3.5" drive bay to put it in. One thing that makes the black drives more expensive is the longer warranty and longer estimated MTBF. That won't directly affect gaming, but adds to the cost.

    Answered by jtsstl

  • Windows 10 is not listed for this drive, why?

    The one I received says Windows 10 on the box. I actually used it for Linux. It was a 1 TB WD Black 3.5" form factor drive.

    Answered by jtsstl

  • Will this drive fit a HP P7-1235 Desk Top?

    Yes. It's a standard 3.5" hard drive, so it should fit any standard-sized desktop computer setup to read a SATA drive. The HP P7-1235 specs reflect that it will work,

    Answered by DRam
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