WD_BLACK 6TB Gaming Inside Onerous Drive HDD – 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 128 MB Cache, 3.5″ – WD6004FZWX

WD BLACK 500GB-1TB OR ANY STORAGE OPTION IS BY FAR THE #1 HDD w/ 64MB CACHE = AMAZING GAMING PERFORMANCE!
WD Is always my favorite HDD going back years!, this not only has amazing transfer speeds thanks to the SATA III (6 Gb/s Speeds) technology-but also the WD Cavier BLACK EDITION 500GB with an amazing super fast 64MB Cache makes this the BEST HDD (Leaving SSD’s Out Of This) in the market today! Coming in many ranges from the 500GB to the 1TB+ (BLUE & BLACK 64 MB CACHE DRIVES) his is by far the best choice for any PC ENTHUSIAST / GAMER for their Backup Storage & Installs of their GAMES in the market today! (( OF COURSE THIS IS ONLY BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE WITH WD PRODUCTS, & HOW I FEEL THE OVERALL QUALITY, DURABILITY & TECHNOLOGY THEY’VE IMPLIMENTED INTO THEIR HIGH LINE DRIVES OR ANY DRIVE I’VE OWNED FOR THAT MATTER AND TOO COMPARED TO THE MANY OTHER BRANDS, I.e SEAGATE, IVE NEVER HAD WD HDD FAIL DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF USE AND STRESS I PUT ON MY DRIVES DUE TO GAMING, ETC. IN THE LONG RUN THE FAIL RATE IS SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER THAN ALL OTHER BRANDS IVE USED IN TERMS OF THEIR LONGEVITY & LIFESPAN)) – Also keep in mind even the lower end 320GB 16MB Cache BLUE models, even GREEN are all just great products regardless., It simply depends on how you use your HDD’s (For me simply for Backing UP & Even INSTALL OF MY GAMES ON THE BLUE/BLACK 64 MB CACHE MODELS, But even the lower end models are still my choice for backup,,media, cloning, image backups and more.) – They come typically in a 8-16, 32,64MB Cache in this CAVIAR Models & in Many Ranges of DRIVE SIZES, the GREEN, BLUE & BLACK Models but yet all reliable and some!. So if your needing a DRIVE that’s highly dependable, easy to work with and has a whole lot of WD Programs then WD should be the @1 Choice / Consideration for your HDD Needs Overall! I typically get the 350-500 (NEW) GB Base Models like these for backups, but even better is the the amazing quality their BLUE/BLACK 64MB Cache Models I use that too are at GREAT Prices and just PERFECT for all your GAMING related needs in conjunction with a good SSD drive to install your OS too, Simply put for the quality, durability, and range of Drive options it simply boils down for me to the PRICE to PERFORMANCE Value FACTOR when going with my WD HDD’s.. Ill continue to be a loyal customer of WD Products for all my Drive needs (SSD is a different story) – I also must mention the expedited and fast shipping that AMAZON always delivers on. Thanx again and I hope this is helpful for anyone looking for Hard Drive options.Jason C (UTAH)

Great value in a 6TB hard drive
This drive replaces the older WD model: WD6002FZWX. I attempted to buy the older model as a brand new item on eBay, since that is the model I was replacing, and I wanted to replace it with the same make/model. However, the seller sent to me a used item instead. I had to do a return, and then wait around for a refund. Then I went to Amazon to buy the newer model WD6004FZWX – and I’m happy with this purchase. The drive from Amazon has zero hours of use, and only 1 turn-on – as checked by my hard disk diagnostic software – so the drive is definitely new. The one from Amazon is quiet, fast, and reliable – and comes with a five year factory warranty, which I verified by going to the Western Digital website, and checking the serial number of my drive with their warranty lookup service. This is a good hard drive for the money – and I should have gone to Amazon first – instead of wasting my time elsewhere, trying to find an older/discontinued drive model as a new item.

J’ai acheté ce disque dur de 8To pour faire du montage vidéo sur un nouveau PC. Dès que j’ai monté et allumé l’ordinateur, toute la caisse de la tour s’est mise à vibrer et à faire un bruit d’avion qui décolle insupportable. J’ai donc contacté le support Western Digital pour faire un échange standard. Je vous passe toute la procédure, les formulaires, l’envoi du disque… ils ont testé l’engin et ont conclu à la même chose que moi : il y avait un défaut d’équilibre des plateaux du disque et donc – même si le DD fonctionnait – il aurait à terme fini par défaillir. Donc, ils ont accepté l’échange standard. Seulement il n’y en avait pas en stock. La production asiatique n’arrive pas à fournir, à cause des arrêts intempestifs des usines à cause de la CoVid19, donc il fallait attendre… Et j’ai attendu 1 long mois et demi. Je les ai appelé dans le laps temps pour savoir où cela en était et ils m’ont à chaque fois répondu qu’ils attendaient aussi des livraisons.Le disque dur est enfin arrivé, je l’ai monté dans le PC et celui-là ne fait aucun bruit, à part un petit sifflement quand il démarre, ou un petit “cloc” quand les têtes se déverrouillent, mais rien que de très normal pour un 7000 tours. Depuis il fonctionne très bien et j’espère qu’il va durer car j’ai tous mes films de famille dessus. (J’ai des backups sur plusieurs BluRay tout de même et un NAS au cas où). J’en suis très content.

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-00K5WB0I’m using several WD Blacks in my current system, including:2 TB WD Black WD2003FZEX-00Z4SA03 TB WD Black WD3003FZEX-00Z4SA05 TB WD Black WD5001FZWX-00ZHUA0and now this new 6 TB WD Black WD6003FZBX-00K5WB0After 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 9900K64 GB DDR4Gigabyte Z390 Master moboMSI GTX 1080750 W Gold PSU4 x 7200 rpm HDD’s1 x 5400 rpm HDDWin 10 Pro and programs on a 500 GB Samsung 970 EVO NVMe10 / 10 would buy this drive again.