Store and access up to 4TB of your files in a desktop computer, NAS device, or RAID array using the 4TB Blue SATA III 3.5″ Internal HDD Retail Kit from WD. 4TB will allow you to store movies, photos, music, documents, and much more. Compatible with computers running Windows and Mac OS, this hard drive connects to your system’s 3.5″ bay via the SATA III 6 Gb/s interface.
In terms of speed, this drive operates using WD’s IntelliPower rotational speed. This means that rpm speed of the drive depends on the operations being performed. If the drive is performing mostly sequential reads and writes, its speed will be increased as compared to if it were performing mostly random mode operations. This 4TB drive also features a 64MB cache to help ensure uninterrupted data transfers. Included with this hard drive are mounting screws.
Vernie Koelpin (verified owner) –
B&H had a great deal and Payboo took the sting out of sales tax. Lots of storage to offload video files from my laptop and my desktop SSD drives.
Roderick Larson (verified owner) –
I have used Western Digital Green disk drives in my 2 drobo drives for years. I never had a fail and they are very stable. I can not speak to speed since I have not compared them to high speed disks such as the WD Black but for backup they are fast enough.
Ward Farrell (verified owner) –
I’m using it for Application and Data storage, and for that it works fine. Nothing outstanding and nothind bad about it. It just works!
Greg Labadie (verified owner) –
Installed in a Linux PC, no problems. Check back in 5 years.
Adelia Zemlak (verified owner) –
I purchased 2 drives which work fine. However one of the USB3 cables that came with the drives failed to work. It would connect to a USB2 port but when connected to a USB3 port the drive failed to work. Very disappointed in WD.
Oren Haag (verified owner) –
I use this to store my archives and media. I use both XBMC and Plex to play the media and it works great. I plan on buying another one for more space.
Felipe Glover (verified owner) –
Not sure what else you can say about a hard drive. Here is to hoping we are on the right side of the Gaussian curve for mean time to failure.
Noelia Murazik (verified owner) –
The disk is a little slow, but the capacity was what I was looking for to store video. Installation was fairly easy. A good price all-in-all.
Malika Jacobi (verified owner) –
very useful
Madilyn Harris (verified owner) –
GREAT DRIVE..
Antonina Schowalter (verified owner) –
Needed to upgrade one of the drives in my NAS and this filled the bill with the size and price.
Drew Lynch (verified owner) –
easy to install, replacement for one that burned out a week ago, same drive. They seem to last about 5 years in the array which has recently been decommissioned but is going to storage now with a new drive (1 out of 4). Probably better not used for NAS drives but fine in a dedicated array.
Maya Tremblay (verified owner) –
Runs just like my other three 2TB drives. Have had good luck with Western Digital drives for a good number of years. I hope it continues. So far so good. Using this as a backup for images. Initially when I plugged it in I could see it in the bios and in the device manager but it would not show up as a valid drive in windows explorer. The reason was the drive did not contain a partition. Just popped in my Windows 7 CD booted off of that and acted like I was going to re-install windows. When I got to the drive setup I added a partition to the new drive and then exited out. Drive shows up and holds my data perfect now.
Gertrude Koch (verified owner) –
Good product. Delivered on time.
Luz Durgan (verified owner) –
We picked this drive because we wanted to start making back up copies on slightly larger and well priced drives. We use them in docking stations and they are working very well. Plan to buy more this week! Thank you B&H signed TravelingKaspersWorld
Joelle Trantow (verified owner) –
I was concerned my 5 year old hard drive would fail without warning. I cloned it to this drive using the SABRENT docking station. Cloned perfectly and I am very confidant I have avoided any problems with my system.
Clarissa Schuppe (verified owner) –
the drive works great so far.
Fredrick Connelly (verified owner) –
It was pretty easy to install as a second harddrive (after some googling) for me and seems to be working well. I didn’t know different harddrives are much faster and suitable for different computer things like gaming, but this is slower apparently. I think for my uses, it will be great. I probably would include a picture of the box if I worked for B & H as there is some essential information on there. I also would include a better piece of paper with better installation instructions or a link on where to see some if I worked for WD. I would include a SATA? cable or something. This comes with nothing and no pins to designate it as a master or slave like harddrives of old. Otherwise, everything is good.
Henry Gaylord (verified owner) –
The drives installed easily and are working fine.
Neha Hermiston (verified owner) –
I use this drive to back up my master drive on my edit bay. Works great as a secondary source that I can leave at another location in case the worst were to happen. Performance is reliable, however it you intend to transfer an entire 3TB allow for several hours. This is the best bang for the buck out there!