Customer Ratings & Reviews

Every major drive manufacturer dives their drives into categories based on performance, usually colorized. It's partially a marketing gimmick to make it easier for the average consumer to pick a drive based upon their use case, but does give a little guidance. This is considered Western Digital's "top of the line" on the consumer side. When you need pure capacity, you still have to go with the traditional HDD if you don't want to break the bank. This drive delivers a good price-per-gigabyte ratio when you factor in its performance. It runs at 7200 RPM, so you get faster seek times, which shows in the sequential reads and writes. The random access is pretty dismal when compared to an SSD or NVMe drive, but that's just what happens when you have a physical arm that can only move so fast. All in all, I'm impressed with the overall performance of the drive. My previous drive that died was a ten year old Seagate drive, and it probably peaked around 130-140 MB/second. This drive is hitting 230 MB/second, which is pretty crazy for a single HDD. I've had some people comment about the drive's noise level, but perhaps those people are used to silent SSD drives and not the clickety-clack of an old school HDD. I wouldn't say it's much louder than a typical HDD. With a five year warranty instead of the typical three year, it gives you a little more peace of mind. Even so, always make sure you have backups of your important stuff!

So far so good the drive is fast and has a lot of storage space. However, it makes a loud "clunk" noise every few seconds which is apparently normal but very annoying. It also makes fairly loud clicking noises occasionally, ESPECIALLY during the short S.M.A.R.T. self-test, which is also supposedly normal. If you don't like loud HDDs then you'll want to avoid this.

The Western Digital Black series are marketed as performance gaming drives, but honestly I did not purchase this because of performance. I had a 2 TB hard drive used for file storage fail on me, and I needed to replace it. Speed was not a concern, but reliability and size were. The ED Black series has a longer warranty (5 years) than the Blue series, for not much more cost. 6 TB seems to be the sweet spot for capacity/price, and leaves lots of room to grow. So far the drive is running fine; relatively quiet, easy to format, no complaints. A bonus is you can access the WD version of Acronis True Image for backups.

Lots of cheap storage and decently fast for a HDD, although suuuper loud, like is shakes my whole desk when it's seeking.

A Great drive for game storage at a fair cost. Games today take up a huge amount of drive storage, and this is a great option at a fair cost.

6tb for gaming what more can you want? Works fine and recommend if you need storage for gaming.

This is an excellent HDD probably one of the fastest HDD you can get. I work amazing have had no problems setting it up.

The HD works great ! this is not my 1st WD large capacity HD. IMO: they are very good!

So far the drive is working with any issues. Easy install

I really needed the hard drive. It’s a good prudict

Product performs great, installation was easy. Staff at the store were polite and professional

Excellent upgrade from my ssd hard drive, plenty of room.

I bought the drive and it works well for its intended purpose.

Great main storage for a gaming PC, won't ever need more storage hopefully!

Very solid, great hard drive fast enough to edit photos or watch media.

Works great, quite easy to swap out and configure.

Works good so far. Fast transfer speeds and consistant.

Great hard drive ! Great features! Super quiet, cant even hear it running. Easy install, and super great performance!

Excellent value considering the capacity and price point and WD Black to boot

Really great item. Easy order and pickup. Great deal on pricing.