Customer Ratings & Reviews

Have three of these running as game drives so they fill up quickly as installs are frequent. They run very hot but I modified my case to allow for two small 80mm case fans to cool all three drives and keep them in the low 40's. Without the fans you're looking at temps in the high 50's.

So far this has been a great drive. I bought it to store all of my steam games. I moved them from an external HDD to this and it's been great so far

really great more then enough space at really good price

I can install all my games into this and never have to worry about installing it later on when friends decide to play something together

I love this product, I ordered one but it didn’t work so I brought it in and they ordered me a knew one. It works great and has so much storage!

It works good and now I can get whatever I want lol

i have no issue with that, already using the drive for Video and photo editing working fast.

It runs so hot even at idle. I felt the need to remove it since it was heating up my other drive so much I'm getting nervous about premature drive failures. I wanna figure out a place away from the other drives that can get lots of air to cool it

Great drive. Runs quiet and fast. I would recommend it.

At the sale price, a nice addition to the PC . I use it for VR gaming and I have had no issues.

WD is still doing it right. Great products! And Best Buy is still the place to go for the best prices, and friendly and knowledgeable staff. Thank you, again.

Hard drive came in and worked as intended. Used it for mostly video and some games

so far so good. It doesn't have any cables with it, we have to buy SATA cable separately.

Nice sale price for this amount of storage. Handy and speedy for your desktop.

Didn't get a chance to install during the return window. On installation, got the beeps of doom and failure to initialize. Know that the cables worked as the bay powered and worked fine before and after with a different drive. Drive also failed in an external docking station rated for up to 20 TB. Will try again, but make sure to test in the return window.

Normally I try to give a good/bad feature list about things, but this is a hard drive and really doesn't need one because it's not that complex. I'm not sure why manufacturers continue to market products at "gaming" when they really have no impact on actual game performance. This isn't a "gaming" hard drive, it's simply a high performance spindle drive. It won't improve your game's framerate or graphical quality. On the few games that can take advantage of faster storage, you will see slightly faster load times, but nothing like what a solid-state would give you. Of course a spindle drive gives you much more storage capacity for a much lower cost, so pick your tradeoff. This being a 3.5" drive, it's not hampered by laptop low power consumption concerns. The larger platters spin much faster, and the result is a much higher data rate. WD claims a maximum transfer rate of 263 MB/s. On my system, copying files to and from a NVMe drive, I saw 240 - 255 MB/s, so WD is telling the truth there ( you'll never see theoretical maximum speeds in real life ). It didn't matter if I was transferring one massive 40 GB file, or 10 GB of thousands of smaller files. Even using a USB 3.0 external enclosure it stayed at that 250 MB/s mark. No big slow downs or stutters. So whether in your desktop or as an external NAS, you'll get fantastic speed out of this. With this 10 TB model, you also get lots of storage space to go along with the speed. Back to the claimed "gaming" aspect of the drive, yes, many games are getting bigger and bigger, so being able to store them can be a concern if your internet service doesn't allow you to easily re-download them. Even assuming a whopping 200 GB per game, you can still fit roughly 50 on this drive. This capacity is also attractive to people running their own home media servers with their own movies. Raw digital movies can take 40 GB or more, and hi-res digital pictures can also eat up space. Some might say the drive is too expensive. Yes, it's pricey, but in terms of capacity per dollar, it's quite a bit cheaper than its smaller capacity stablemates. It's certainly cheaper than buying multiple smaller drives to build a NAS array of similar capacity. And if you use this in an external enclosure, it can serve as a great one-stop backup drive that's easy to grab and go in the event of a fire or flood. WD's Black drives are also built to a higher quality than regular consumer drives, which is why its warranty is five years instead of the normal three. WD also includes a copy of Acronis backup software with their drives, which is fantastic. You can schedule backup process and clone hard drives easily. Even better, the cloning process gives you fine control over the source and destination drives, so cloning a multi-OS system with many partitions isn't an issue.

I's a great drive I've been using these for years.

Pretty fast and doesnt run hot. It doesnt have any cables included so make sure you have them.

Nice gaming hard drive, very fast and quite. Grest value

Great for pc build..................................