WD 8TB WD_BLACK Performance SATA III 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive
$199.99
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Description
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.
Additional information
| Weight | 1.82 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 7.6 × 5.1 × 2.5 in |
| Storage Capacity | 8 TB |
| Cache Memory | 256 MB |
| Interface | SATA III (6 Gb/s) |
| Write Speed | Maximum: 263 MB/s |
| Read Speed | Maximum: 263 MB/s |
| Drive Type | HDD |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Noise Level | 36.0 dB (Active)<br />29.0 dB (Idle) |
| Spindle Speed (RPM) | 7200 RPM |
| Load/Unload Cycles | 300, 000 |
| Non-Recoverable Read Errors per Bits Read | 1 in 1014 |
| Power Draw | 8.2 W (Active)<br />4.6 W (Idle)<br />0.5 W (Standby) |
| Operating Shock | 30 G / 2.0 ms |
| Storage Shock | 250 G / 2.0 ms |
| Dimensions (W x H x D) | 4 x 1 x 5.8" / 101.6 x 26.1 x 147 mm |
| Warranty Length | Limited 5-Year Warranty |
Reviews (324)
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Iva Christiansen (verified owner) –
I had a 1/2 TB second drive and filled it up so I decided to replace it with a 2TB drive. I’ve used Western Digital drives for years, mostly the Black series, and have been very pleased with them. I thought about getting a 3TB drive but there seem to be a lot of reviews that say they are noisy so I decided to just go with a 2TB drive. I found that prices of the 2TB Caviar Black varied and there are different model numbers as well. I went to the Western Digital site and looked at their model numbers to make sure what I was buying was on their list. They all seem to have the same specifications so I’m not sure why all the different model numbers. I found a retail packaged drive at B&H that was competitively priced in comparison to OEM drives elsewhere so I went ahead and ordered it. With a retail package you normally get at least a sealed box, whereas OEM drives sometimes arrive in just a plain box, wrapped in bubble wrap and placed in a unsealed anti-static envelope. I’ve ordered drives from various other online suppliers and now B&H. So far I’m very pleased with B&H. Shipping was very fast. The drive installed just fine and is no noisier than my primary drive which is a WD Caviar Black 1TB. I’ve used other drive manufacturers in the past, but I seem to have better luck with WD drives. I’m more into reliability than speed.
Carissa Auer (verified owner) –
Top of the line internal hard drive at a Very good price.
Alyson Will (verified owner) –
This is my second WD Black 7200 RPM drive that I’ve owned, and the first that I’ve bought from B&H. On this order, the drive was DOA. It would spin-up, but I could not initialize it and ultimately RMA’d it and used a WD Gold 7200 RPM drive for my backup prior to upgrading my OS. The Rona has slowed B&H down a bit, but they were fabulous in granting my RMA and sending out a second Black drive that works as expected. Thank you B&H. I use these as external drives for offline backups. I house these in external drive enclosures as single units and only bring them online to add files (remove from my RAID drive) or to pull from backups as we need them. We edit at least 30 GB of video files per week and including export files, need to move at least 50 GB of files offline per week. In the 7 years that we’ve been doing this, all of our WD drives have worked flawless. Transfer speed from my RAID 5 via USB3 to a single external WD Black is around 120 MB/sec on large sequential files.
Sallie Batz (verified owner) –
Main HD for a home made PC. Fast and reliable. 5 years warrenty
Aditya Senger (verified owner) –
Apparently Windows 10 has a size limitation when partitioning large Hard Drives into sizes larger than 2 TB – Originally it was to be split 50/50, eventually the Hard Drive was split roughly 30/30/30 with a loss of approx. 20% (when you partition you always lose some space). I dont know why this approx. 2 TB limit is so. However, the drive is quick and agile, performance is much better than a plug-in drive (USB) with faster response time. If you only have one choice for a new physical hard drive – A Western Digital is hard to surpass.
Kiana Metz (verified owner) –
The drive works flawlessly, the price was the lowest I could find, and it arrived quickly in perfect condition. Unfortunately, I could not use it to completely replace the existing 1TB hard drive. Due to the age of the machine, the largest drive it could support was a 2TB C drive. So I now have 5TB total storage. Not exactly the solution I wanted, but certainly not the drive’s fault.
Aileen Dibbert (verified owner) –
I have bought several drives from here. This WD Black 1TB is for a new PC gaming build, for file storage, applications, and OS image backup, etc. The boot drive is a Samsung SSD, which I also purchased from B&H, here. My experience has been, I find really good prices here for memory & storage, on brands like WD, and fast free shipping. Good – drive passed a 48hr stresstest with no errors. Stayed cool and quiet the entire stresstest. Registered it thru WD, it’s a retail kit, so it has 5 year warranty. Not so good – it’s never free. Reasonable, yes; free, no.
Lily Rice (verified owner) –
I’ve been pleased with the relative ease of installation of this product, though I haven’t had the opportunity to test its storage capacity. Windows does not immediately recognize this storage device, so it has to be formatted before it can be used. I can’t address the speed of the reading and writing of this drive, but I would recommend it thus far.
Janessa Stokes (verified owner) –
Seems great, but drive is noisy. Time will tell.
Jacques Rosenbaum (verified owner) –
Needed an extra internal drive to install new Mac OS X Elcapitan. This did the trick. B & H provided Great service , delivered on time, and a quick-easy install. Thank you.
Calista Raynor (verified owner) –
I buy only WD Black HDDs because of their high reliability (as opposed to other makes that didn’t). By now I have over a dozen, in 3 PCs and a couple of NAS boxes, with nary a problem. In addition, they offer good performance. This particular one turned in over 200MB/Sec in sequential read and write, using Parkdale.
Marion Cummings (verified owner) –
When I want a five year warranty and the security of file backups, this is the harddrive I depend upon. I have before, and that’s why I added this to my choices.
Abner Rolfson (verified owner) –
Have always used Caviar Black. Had only 2 failures in 10 years. Not sure they’re quite as robust as they used to be, but still the best out there.
Vince Renner (verified owner) –
I have many hard drives (nearly 70) both in service and retired on the shelf in archival cases. I have found WD Black drives are not only fast, but the most reliable in my application. Black drives employ a data structure amenable for both storage and RAID applications.
Hunter Ullrich (verified owner) –
I’m getting the apparently well-known PWL (Preemptive/Preventative Wear-Leveling) noise many people report with this drive. This is incredibly and constantly annoying to me, but this drive has far worse problems than that. After several months of wondering what’s wrong with my system or my Windows install or everything else under the sun, I’ve realized after a bunch of time-consuming web research that it’s actually this hard drive causing my problems: The drive constantly parks its head when not in use for a short amount of time, regularly causing work-stoppage-level File Explorer freezes/meltdowns. I purchased this drive specifically because of its reputation for speed and centered my in-workstation storage on it, so having this debilitating feature sneaked in is a real rug-pull for me. It will be difficult and time-consuming to transfer all of this data to a new drive of this size and set it up again, so I’m stuck with this awful performance for the time being until I can find the time to take on the task. Very frustrated, it may be a long time before I can bring myself to trust WD again.
Lincoln Brakus (verified owner) –
I bought 4 of them for a raid and Final Cut. They are fast, reliable, and the best without being ssd.
Katrine Pfeffer (verified owner) –
I had WD black drives in my previous build running for past 7 years, I hope I am lucky again. The drives are quiet and plenty zippy for my home PC
Francesco Pouros (verified owner) –
I purchased this drive to replace a similar (green) drive that I had purchased for use on a Drobo unit. The green drive did not seem to be able to handle the Drobo operations whereas the Black drive both installed without too many issues and seems to working fine. It seems the black drive is more up to the task of operating in the Drobo environment, at least this large of a drive.
Jeanne McGlynn (verified owner) –
4 Terabytes for an affordable price, and a 5 year warranty on top of that… I keep coming back for another one as my client needs grow.
Monte Crooks (verified owner) –
WD Black drives are the best mechanical drives available. I will go SSD at some point but not yet. I just put 4 in a new gigabyte Designare z390 build. 🙂