Customer Ratings & Reviews

I added this 4TB to my computer so the Main Drive only had to worry about the Operating System and other Programs. This drive only works for storage and back ups.

Works great as a secondary storage drive, slower than you would want as a boot drive since it's 5400rpm, but the low noise and large volume is a plus

This was exactly what I was needing, and at a reasonable price as well. It's been working great since installation, and I m very pleased with it.

I use these hard disk drives for my NAS and other backup files, works great and I haven't had any issues with the drives in over a year now. The speeds are a bit slower than the 7200 RPM drives (these hard drives are 5400 RPM), but I don't have any issues with that in my own setup.

Held up quite nicely in my home server. It’s Western Digital. Enough said.

There's so little that can be said about mechanical drives anymore, unless they're pushing the limits of the format's capacity, so I'll keep it simple. It hasn't failed, and it is holding data without flipping bits randomly. It isn't noisy and hasn't eaten my dog. It's not particularly fast, but for the use it gets, it doesn't need to be. All in all, a good solution to bump up storage space a bit.

High capacity drive to store years of photos, videos, music, and other misc files. Works as advertised and a good value for the storage amount.

64MB cache is better than 256MB cache! Yes you read that right. Best Buy ships the WD40EZRZ variant of these drives, which is rather a rare find, given that other retailers Why is this smaller cache variant better? The cache size isn't the only difference here. the -EZRZ variant uses PMR instead of SMR writing technology found in -EZAZ variants. Without going much into the detail, SMR saves money for the HDD manufacturer, at the cost of more write activity for the reorganization of files, which simply doesn't exist with the PMR. Google is your friend if you want to learn more. Yes you heard me, this -EZRZ variant is better.

Hard drive works great, great size and value, using as a 2nd drive

Good value for storage expansion, cheap and easy to install.

Did what I needed a 4GB drive to do. Quick and easy installation into server, quickly configured new shares and started pumping gigs of data onto it. Liked it so much I bought a second so I could put one into my other server, configured DFS between the two and they are replicating. Might buy more soon as it's always good to have more space than you think you need.

Yes, it's a hard drive for a desktop computer, alright. Wanted to upgrade my 1 TB hard drive with something bigger, and I ended up getting this one. Hook it in with a SATA cable, go to your Drive Management, create a new simple volume, and, boom, new hard drive. Not much else to say. Seems to work great so far.

Good general purpose storage hard drive. Large capacity works well if you are working with a lot of video files or other files over 1GB each. Have bought this hard drive in the past and have not had one fail yet. (5 years)

This 4TB WD Blue worked fantastic in my new computer build. The price to performance is great and it's near whisper quiet during operation. My media library and games have plenty of room to grow now.

So far this hard drive has done what it is supposed to do. Store my data and havent had any malfunctions. I have several of these installed and have used them in the past on my other PCs.

Added much needed additional storage to our computer. Easy to install and set-up. Great option to economically expand your storage space

The drive was literally plug and play into my RAID array. Easy install and setup. Great value - buy with confidence.

Replaced my 8 year old 1tb blue with this drive. It’s louder than any other spinning drive i’ve had when spinning up but is fine once it’s settled in. A fine drive, ok for archive speeds, decent value!

Glad that they had some CMR drives in stock. Watch out for the slightly cheaper SMR drives. These ones are slower and overall worse. If you are using these in a NAS or NVR, make sure to get CMR drives. The model number correlates to the WD datasheet.

I bought this one for my essential desktop. It was perfect for my using. I got a larger space than SSD.