Designed for digital artists, video editors, photographers, gamers, system builders, and more, the 8TB WD_BLACK Performance SATA III 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive from WD is optimized for drive performance so you can spend more time experiencing the things you love most. When paired with an SSD for a dual-drive configuration, you’ll further benefit from the caching of your OS onto the SSD for increased performance.
This 8TB drive operates using a SATA III 6 Gb/s interface, a 256MB cache, and a rotational speed of 7200 rpm, all of which help to ensure uninterrupted data transfers with a sustained rate of up to 263 MB/s. This drive also features high levels of reliability, with 300,000 load/unload cycles and <1 in 1014 non-recoverable read errors per bits read. Also built into this drive are WD’s StableTrac and Dynamic Cache Technology to help increase reliability and optimize performance.
Deangelo Weissnat (verified owner) –
I file my photo collection on bare hard drives. I also keep a second copy at an alternate location. These drives are perfect for both purposes.
Dexter Luettgen (verified owner) –
Installed it into a new build as my primary drive. I haven’t done a build in a number of years and there were no problems, I’ll probably buy a second drive shortly.
Ignacio Prohaska (verified owner) –
that is – faster than the WD I was replacing
Rahul Douglas (verified owner) –
These work great for our video editing. Rarely have issues.