Customer Ratings & Reviews

I got the 2TB because I wanted to stick with MBR and not use GPT. I cloned my current drive with a hardware cloner, installed the drive and extended the partition. Easy as expected. No issues. If there is a con, it is that the black line of HD's are quite loud during operation. That's a small price for the performance boost you get with the black series drives.

I purchased this drive to use as an external for my xbox one. Its faster and cheaper than buying an external hard drive. I just bought a case to put it in and connected to the 3.0 usb port of my xbox. works great with no problems

I wanted a high quality SATA hard drive to give to my wife for her new DroBo running with Apple Time Machine. Plugged right in, started right up, no problems. The 5 year warranty is nice to have in case either of the two drives goes south.

I bought two of these drives to use in a RAID configuration, essentially writing the same data to two drives to ensure the data is safe in case of any unforeseen issues with either drive. The performance is really good. The difference is almost unnoticeable from the Solid State Drives I'm using for the operating systems on my desktop workstation. If you're looking for a cost-effective high-performance hard drive then definitely check this series of Western Digital drives out.

I've had the hard drive in the desktop for about 3 weeks now without issues. It is pretty fast and seems much quicker than my old 1TB HD that failed after 9 years. I hope this one lasts as long.

Fantastic storage capacity and great speed at 7200 rpm. I use it as my secondary drive for storing large programs, pictures and music. My primary drive is an SSD housing the OS and supporting software.

This is a great hard drive to store games, videos, music, etc. I use it as a 2nd hard drive in my CPU.

Always buy WD products. I bought other hard drives in the past and lived to regret it.

We use these drives in one of our three TeraStations and have had relatively few problems with them compared to other hd's we have had. The black one is supposed to be their workhorse but we have recently tried their red ones as well.

Very reliable- 5 year warranty- no brainer. Unless you go solid state these are great performers.

It works well with NetGear cloud storage system. However, I just checked the price from amazon. I bought three of these for my four disk NAS unit. Everything about them makes them a perfect drive. It works well with NetGear cloud storage system. I am curious whether this is the best price or not.

I bought two of these and they allowed me to extend the life of my server by 2 years, definitely worth the price.

Fast and super reliable. 5yr warranty is great. Western Digital makes phenomenal drives.

I have used Western Digital for all of my hard drive needs in the past (usually external drives) and have yet to have a problem. So as I was building my gaming computer, there was no company I would trust more.

I needed to get a HDD in addition to my SSD (for operating system only) This HDD does not disappoint, I have it almost 80% full already and it still benchmarks in the 99th percentile on UserBenchmark.

I have used these drives for years and they have always performed flawlessly. They are used in Insignia HDD enclosures and they are quickly recognized by the system. I have never had any failures of any kind with these drives. Nice job WD!

I would definitely recommend this product. My friends and I build our computers, and this hard drive works great. I have two in my computer, you can’t go wrong. I’ve never had an issue with this product, hands down my first and only choice. I wouldn’t purchase any other internal hard drive.

I got this drive to supplement my SSD boot drive. Large SSDs are becomming more readily available, but as of now there is no SSD with this type of storage anywhere near as cheap. So I would not recommend this drive as a primary, but as your secondary storage this will do just fine.

My 10 year old WD Black hard drive finally started to show signs of failure so I obtained this WD Black model to replace it. I trust the Black WD hard drives and I hope to get 10 years outta this one too!

WD Black has always been the go-to for my builds, which usually use an SSD for my OS drive, and this as my gaming drive. I like to keep my OS drive clean, the WD black is a great option when you want those quick loads. WD Blue is okay, but the standard 7200 RPMs can't really be beat. I believe WD has changed how the name their drives, so color coding has essentially gone away. Today, this would be a WD Performance Drive. save a few bucks and get this one OEM. Same difference.