Western Digital 6 TB SATA 3.5 Hard Drive - Black

Just needed some more storage for Photo's and wanted a reliable drive to keep them safe.. All good.

The quality, speed, noise and packaging are all good with the one I received. However it only has 5.45TB of usable space. I know it's Windows' fault with how it measures storage, but maybe put on the packaging the windows number so people know what they're getting.

I have been using Western Digital Black Hard Drives now for many years. I am a Photographer and digital storage is critical to me. I have never had a Western Digital Black Hard Drive fail on me, whereas I have had several other Hard Drives fail over the years. I currently have 16 Terabytes of Master storage, with another 20 TB used for nightly backups (one critical Master disk is backed-up to two different back-up disks). I just purchased these two 6 TB Western Digital Black Hard Drives to increase my storage further.

large fast hard drive with WD reliability. expensive but you pay for what you get

I mean it. An order of magnitude over the rest of the storage on my PC, including another WD hybrid drive. It may not bother you, but when this thing goes, I can hear it across the room, way over the fans of my PC, even when they're going full blast.

Great

very nice

I bought this drive to replace a WD black 3TB disk I had which is starting to show signs it may fail. I started copying my data and about 1/2 day into the copy operation the drive developed 261 bad sectors which were then remapped. This was obviously a faulty drive, but the way in which is was packaged (bubble wrap in a cardboard envelope) well thats just not going to cut it. This drive was DOA. I have ordered another in a retail box this time, I have used WD drives for over 20 years with no issues but this was a disaster.

UPDATE: Nov 19 2019 - 3 months in, running great, still fast, zero problems. UPDATE 2: Nov 2020 - 15 months in and is still running perfect. No probs. This review is for the 6 TB WD Black WD6003FZBX-00K5WB0 I'm using several WD Blacks in my current system, including: 2 TB WD Black WD2003FZEX-00Z4SA0 3 TB WD Black WD3003FZEX-00Z4SA0 5 TB WD Black WD5001FZWX-00ZHUA0 and now this new 6 TB WD Black WD6003FZBX-00K5WB0 After installing the drive in my desktop PC, I initialized GPT and formatted NTFS in Win 10 Pro 1903. The binary / base 10 conversion left 5.45 TB usable, which is what I was expecting. I don't like to fill HDD's past 90 - 95 % capacity for overhead / drive optimization purposes, so I consider this roughly just over 5 TB's of usable drive. I knew this going in - no surprises there. I was concerned pre-purchase by several consumer complaints (mostly 2017 / 2018) about excessive noise and grinding. I'm really baffled by this. For me this 6 TB is the quietest and fastest of the WD Black drives I own, with the 3 TB WD Black WD3003FZEX-00Z4SA0 being easily the loudest, and the 5 TB WD Black WD5001FZWX-00ZHUA0 being the second loudest. I can only guess that WD may have previously had a bad batch ? or they have refined the manufacture process to eliminate previous problems? I say that because this 6 TB WD Black shows a manufacture date of Dec 6 2018, so it could be a newer manufacture process. And putting it through it's paces in benches and real world tests it is not as loud as my other black drives. In addition to the attached drive transfer speed pictures, the drive will reach burst transfer speeds in excess of 1 to 1.5 GB/s maintained for a few seconds, monitored in Win 10 Pro 1903. The average sustained transfer speed, now that the drive is 60 % full, tends to be anywhere form 155 - 170 MB/s. That's a rough average and is dependent on transfer source size, what else is being used, etc. Note the attached screenshots show benches at 0 % and 59 % full, showing some speed drop off - that's normal as the drive fills up, but it's still excellent performance for an HDD. These are not SSD speeds, but neither is this a 6TB SSD price. The price / performance here is a sweet spot for high capacity / performance uses like a video editing source content drive, or similar scenarios where this is a companion drive to an O/S and program SSD. As the drive is less than a month old I can't comment on longevity but I'll update and report back if I find any problems. This drive has the standard 5 yr warranty offered on all WD black drives. This drive runs a few degrees Celsius higher than my other WD Blacks but it's still well within spec. Under prolonged load it tends to run high 30's - while the others are mid 30's. This is in an airflow optimized Fractal Design R5 case with additional 140 mm Noctua fans cooling the well spaced drive stack. I do a considerable amount of editing and this drive holds a lot of my footage. I'm using Win 10 Pro and Sony Vegas installed on a 500 GB Samsung 970 EVO NVMe. I have 20 + TB of data spread across two desktop systems and archival backup boxes. That said I'm still a hobby editor and for me it's still just not feasible to spend the thousands of dollars it would cost to switch 20 TB over to SSD's. But I am seriously considering buying two more of these because the real world performance is excellent - better than I expected actually. I wish they were cheaper, but in Canada it tends to normally run within $10 - $20 of it's closest rival, the 6 TB Pro 7200 rpm offering from the other guys at ***gate. The system I'm testing with: i9 9900K 64 GB DDR4 Gigabyte Z390 Master mobo MSI GTX 1080 750 W Gold PSU 4 x 7200 rpm HDD's 1 x 5400 rpm HDD Win 10 Pro and programs on a 500 GB Samsung 970 EVO NVMe 10 / 10 would buy this drive again.

Excelente producto, me encantó el performance, lo utilizo para jugar con máquinas virtuales y almacenamiento de datos y la vdd no le pide nada a uno de estado sólido, el ruido que hace cuando está en máximo desempeño no es muy ruidoso le puse 4 estrellitas solo porque hay más silenciosos, en general es un excelente producto.

Hard disk costoso ma la differenza in velocità con prodotti simili si vede. I giochi anche molto ma molto pesanti si avviano piu velocemente. L hard disk arriva imballato bene. Una volta installato nel PC non risulta rumoroso. Il mio PC non lo ha riconosciuto. È possibile bastato inizializzarlo e tutto è andato a buon fine. 6 TB di velocità x gaming

Bien un bulk et non un EOM, donc la garantie 5 ans fonctionne 256Mo cache contrairement au descriptif (mais conformément à la description constructeur) En remplacement d'un green 7200 rpm également, la différence de vitesse est flagrante (de l'ordre du double) Seul bémols, sans surprise: - le disque doit être impérativement placé dans un boîtier ventilé (température mesurée en charge à 40°C juste derrière un ventilateur 120mm à 900rpm) - même monté sur supports silicone dans un boîtier insonorisé, le bruit de grattement est présent (mais pas obscène)

Used about a year now and it works perfectly. No bad sector so far. It was well protected with box and foams to absorb any shock.