Purchased to replace an older 1 TB HDD drive, runs faster then the older drive, and stays mostly quiet. My only complaint is there is a mild clicking (like a soft thump sound) from the drive however this is not a malfunction but a feature of the drive that prevents excessive wearing on the drive.

If you have room in your PC case, this WD_BLACK HDD is great as a storage/backup/userdata/etc drive. Even though I use SSDs for boot/video editing/modern gaming, I use these high-quality cost-effective WD_BLACK HDDs for everything else.

A great additional storage for my Xbox series X and Ps5 consoles. Game are getting larger in file so storage is most important. I use it for extenal hard drive use. Even though its not an SSD, it is still useful for transferinf game and playing previous generation games.

Originally, I had purchased one of these from Amazon only to have it shipped as a bare naked drive in a plastic bag with no additional packaging whatsoever. Didn't even need to open it as it was clearly destroyed. After I returned that, I decided to buy it from a physical BestBuy store, eliminating the risk of shipping it to me. And yet, somehow even though it came in a box this time it was still dead on arrival when I actually tried to use it. At this point, I just gave up and bought an industrial hard drive twice this size from Target. It's got three read heads and is very loud so this 8tb WD Black is probably better for most people (assuming yours actually works).

Holds plenty of data for the price and is fast. However, it can run loud.