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!

What Makes It Stand Out: Massive Capacity: 6TB is the "sweet spot" for heavy gamers. It easily holds dozens of AAA titles alongside 4K video captures and media libraries. Performance: For a HDD, it’s remarkably snappy. The 7200 RPM spindle speed and large cache ensure that load times are noticeably faster than standard 5400 RPM "blue" drives. Rock-Solid Reliability: WD_BLACK is known for its durability. It’s built to handle the heat and vibration of long gaming sessions, backed by an impressive 5-year limited warranty. Stable Gaming: While SSDs are faster for initial loads, this drive provides a consistent, stutter-free experience for running titles that don't require NVMe speeds. The Verdict It’s the perfect secondary drive. Use an SSD for your OS and most-played competitive games, and let the WD_BLACK 6TB handle everything else. It’s fast, quiet for its class, and incredibly dependable.

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.

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.

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

I got this at a good discount before the AI demand kicked in. It's has a good warranty, it's easy to register on Western Digital's webite, it's 7200 RPMs and has I believe 256mb of cache. This drive is great for storing music, pictures, videos, movies, program files, older games and can be used for transferring files reliability and as a scratch drive for video edit. Though it can be used as a boot drive I would recommend ot as you're better off getting a 1tb NVME drive for that and this wouldn't be all great modern games. The reliable enough to used in a RAID or ecen a server system though server drives tend to be cheaper for the tb per dollar. Of on a good sale this is a great drive. If not for the same money you can get an 8 yo 12tb Western Digital Blue HDD that will be CMR, spin at 7200 and have 128 up to 512mb of cache. The warranty and reliability is great, but IMO the Western Digital Blue is a better value and the Western Digital Red Plus is better for RAID and server system because they're reliable with a good warranty and a better tb to dollar ratio.

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

This was a great space upgrade so I could load many more games on my PC. I had to partition it out so my PC would recognize it. Running great so far.

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

Perfect! Literally 6tb of gaming you literally don’t need more than that plus it’s so easy to set up to ur pc and like i said it’s perfect wouldn’t want any other one and for the price 1000/10

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

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.

I got 4 of these hard drives for my Synology NAS system to replace the 4TB Seagate drives. They are fast, but extremely noisy. My Seagate hard drives were half as noisy as these. Deducted 1 star for that reason.