WD 6TB Ultrastar 7200 rpm SATA 3.5″ Internal Data Center HDD (Retail)
$134.99
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Description
The 6TB Ultrastar 7200 rpm SATA 3.5" Internal Data Center HDD from WD is an enterprise-grade drive designed for demanding 24×7 data storage solutions. Ultrastar drives are built to be durable, using CMR technology and featuring up to an error tolerance of <1 in 1015, a MTBF rating of 2 million hours, and an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.44%, depending on the model. Endurance aside, this drive offer fast 7200 rpm performance with 256 MB of cache and data transfer speeds of up to 233 MB/s.
Additional information
| Weight | 1.64 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 7.8 × 5 × 2.8 in |
| Storage Capacity | 6 TB |
| Non-Recoverable Read Errors per Bits Read | < 1 in 1014 |
| Dimensions (W x H x D) | 4 x 1 x 5.8" / 101.6 x 25.4 x 147.32 mm |
| Certifications | RoHS, as per Manufacturer |
| Storage Temperature | -40 to 158°F / -40 to 70°C |
| Operating Temperature | 41 to 140°F / 5 to 60°C |
| Storage Shock | 300 G / 2.0 ms |
| Operating Shock | 70 G / 2.0 ms |
| Supported Voltage | 5 VDC, 12 VDC |
| Power Draw | 7.0 W (Active)<br />5.9 W (Idle) |
| Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) | 2.0 Million Hours |
| Cache Memory | 256 MB |
| Load/Unload Cycles | 600, 000 |
| Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) | 0.44 % |
| Spindle Speed (RPM) | 7200 RPM |
| Noise Level | 29.0 dB (Idle)<br />36.0 dB (Active) |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Drive Type | HDD |
| Read Speed | Maximum: 233 MB/s |
| Interface | SATA III (6 Gb/s) |
| Warranty Length | Limited 5-Year Warranty |
Reviews (155)
155 reviews for WD 6TB Ultrastar 7200 rpm SATA 3.5″ Internal Data Center HDD (Retail)
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Jon Mueller (verified owner) –
I would not buy any other model or brand of drive. The Western Digital gold series has been proven to last longer than many other drives. I recommend using this drive in a RAID 5 or 6 configuration as you will have the benefit of redundancy just in case any drive should fail.
Maryse Nolan (verified owner) –
I just bought two of these drives. They arrived yesterday. One seems to be working fine. The other one never booted up on either of my computers. After multiple failed attempts, I am returning the dead one. I feel lucky that even one of the two drives worked. It’s a sad state of affairs when 50% is the new 100% here at B&H.
Mack McLaughlin (verified owner) –
It came on time and is quiet. It has a large cache. I am expecting a long life from this drive.
Evelyn Erdman (verified owner) –
Purchased these enterprise drives for RAID5 setup on my Synology DS1019 NAS. Drives are quiet and fast. 5 years limited warranty is a plus.
Destinee Frami (verified owner) –
Since I purchased a very high resulution digital camera I have been consiming hard disk space at an alarming rate. My Western Digital 12Tb UltraStar to the rescue. I used my StarTech docking station to handle all the disk activation and copying. Once I copied all files from my old 4Tb photo drive to the new 12Tb drive using Windows Explorer I just swapped drives and their power and signal plugs and my updated system was ready to go. Very simple, very quick, very nice.
Helen Rohan (verified owner) –
Use the Ultrastar 12TB with the OWC Drive Dock USB Type-C Dual Drive Bay Solution as my computer’s backup. No complaints. So far, so good.
Carter Thiel (verified owner) –
Bought this with recommendation of Marco at B&H. Works great with my synology NAS
Buddy Little (verified owner) –
Works great so far! Great way to increase the storage space on our NAS at an affordable price
Marie Rodriguez (verified owner) –
I bought a pair of these and a pair of 8TB Red drives around the same time. These drives are faster than reds but quite noisy. The seek noise is pretty loud. The other side of the coin is that my throughput is 20 to 30% higher than with the red drives on the same workload. Other than the noise, I have no complaints about these drives.
Rhea Schmeler (verified owner) –
I’ve used and enjoyed WD drives for years, and have always found them reliable. I recently bought 6 of these to put in a RAID enclosure. 1 of the 6 was DOA. Fine, I know these things can happen (and I’m pretty sure this was the first such occurrence with a WD drive for me). Bought as part of a 2-pack, so had to return 2 to B&H. They shipped 2 new ones, and both were DOA. Tried in multiple enclosures. Same clicking/buzzing sound on all 3 drives and the same error: Could not write to last block of device. So 3 out of 8 drives were bad. QC issues? Not sure; the original bad drive was manufactured in Jul 2020, and the 2 replacements were from Sept 2019. Can’t really evaluate their performance as I’m still waiting to use the working drives. Seems like other people have had better luck.
Rosa Bergnaum (verified owner) –
B&H Photo was great! Shipped quickly in retail package. Registered product with HGST (WD) for 5 years. Product would energize (spin up) but not be seen by 2 different eSATA ports (currently working with 1TB & 4TB WD harddrives) and external docking station (working fine with 1TB WD drive). Drive not found so unable to report on satisfaction. RMA’d drive with factory and has not been returned yet. Unfortunately, I will likely get refurbished drive (per their warranty policy) after purchasing new item.
Reyna Mohr (verified owner) –
I only buy to types 3.5 drives WD and Seagate in 3.5 size they just work
Shanna Witting (verified owner) –
I bought this HDD for speed, size, and warranty, having a good price (at the time I bought it). According to Xbench measurements, read and write speeds on the outer partition are 228 GB/s and 235 GB/s, respectively, which are the best of any HDD I have owned. I use that partition as boot partition for an 2015 iMac and am pleased with the drive overall performance.
Brenden Bartoletti (verified owner) –
I got this thing since my WD black and server grade drives have had a lot less issues over the years than anything else I have used, and in fact this drive is replacing a batch of air filled drives from 2009-2013 that haven’t died yet. Assuming you get the 12 TB Ultrastar (right now) you should be getting helium drives and they run considerably cooler than the air ones. Just wish that Ultrastars of different model were more widely available, if you buy from amazon for example most third parties will have to RMA thru them, only a few places like B&H have direct WD warranty. As such I had to get this 512e instead of 4Kn model, but I guess it would still be better for compatibility reasons if I ever decides to run say windows 7 and use that to read this thing…
Elfrieda Boehm (verified owner) –
Revising previous 4 star review. I had to return the hdd because after copying some files to it, it continued to spin continuously for hours…even though it wasn’t being accessed. It was impossible to stop the spinning, and the spinning noise was loud and intolerable. I’ve ordered a Seagate exos drive to try out as a replacement.
Ruby Wintheiser (verified owner) –
I wanted to combine a mishmash of HDDs in my PC that have accumulated over the years into a single, large capacity HDD to store files I don’t need on my system disk. This 4TB data center rated Ultrastar is perfect for that! Transfer speeds are good in my system with this disk outperforming both the 2 TB Hitachi and the 300GB WD VelociRapter it replaced.
Julien Gottlieb (verified owner) –
WD very good
Timmy Zboncak (verified owner) –
I have a giant stack of these. They are functional for all different purposes, especially nice in a raid.
Furman Kovacek (verified owner) –
The MTBF is even longer on these models. Prefer the enterprise grade drives even for personal data. Performance is stellar.
Samantha Kessler (verified owner) –
Exceptional quality.