FIrst I got WD 8TB Red NAS PRO internal, as I need to substitute my WD Blue 3TB Media storage. That drive temps easily got into high 40s Celsius during file transfer, too hot for my Desktop setup (I have 3 WD Gold Helium (2TB, 8TB and 10TB), a WD Green (3TB) and a WD Blue (3TB) and Samsung SSD as system drive). All my drives very seldom got close to 50 C, and only during hot Summer days.I needed new hard drive fast as something got corrupted on my Blue HDD and at that time I did not know yet what it was, HDD bad sectors or just files got corrupted (right now it seems like I got 5 corrupted media files, but planning to scan my Blue with HDScan just in case), so urgent rescue was necessary.WD Red PRO could stay somewhat cool only with household fan blowing directly ... MoreFIrst I got WD 8TB Red NAS PRO internal, as I need to substitute my WD Blue 3TB Media storage. That drive temps easily got into high 40s Celsius during file transfer, too hot for my Desktop setup (I have 3 WD Gold Helium (2TB, 8TB and 10TB), a WD Green (3TB) and a WD Blue (3TB) and Samsung SSD as system drive). All my drives very seldom got close to 50 C, and only during hot Summer days.I needed new hard drive fast as something got corrupted on my Blue HDD and at that time I did not know yet what it was, HDD bad sectors or just files got corrupted (right now it seems like I got 5 corrupted media files, but planning to scan my Blue with HDScan just in case), so urgent rescue was necessary.WD Red PRO could stay somewhat cool only with household fan blowing directly into HDD cage, not good. So I looked around and saw a comment that External Black has HGST HDD, that was a revelation, and that happened during Black Friday, price dropped to $199, so I returned my RED PRO and got this Black one.As of now, writing my review, my files are getting copied to External Black from Internal Blue. I tried to put Black vertically as it should be, but my temps went up to 48 C very fast (MAX temp allowed is 60C), so I decided not to get any chances, placed Black horizontally, put 2 external 80cm USB TermalTake fans full speed on one side - not as loud as household Vonado fan and temp is steady at 43 C during past 5 hours of file transfer. Idle temp after transfer is 41-42C, so it gets only 1-2 C up during hard work with adequate cooling, that is excellent. Good choice for my needs.So I investigated a bit to figure out what is really going on with temps, as my WD Gold Enterprise Class HDDs run much cooler.Apparently, WD is moving away from Helium filled HDDs (Gold, or anything what have HE in model name) to Air filled, cheaper to produce, but Air filled HDDs are in fact run 10-12 C warmer than Helium HDDs. So my previous experience with WD RED NAS PRO was in fact normal, but it has to be run in very good ventilated Server, not tight Desktop.So, what is really inside of this 8TB Black box? HGST hus728t8tale6l4/UltraStar DC HC320 (AIR filled), which is Enterprise Class HDD coming to replace WD Gold Helium filled WD8003FRYZ-01xxxxx, which are discontinued a few years ago, but still possible to find nowadays. And External enclosure comes with 3 years warranty, which I guess is limited by enclosure, as UltraStar DC HC320 comes with 5 year warranty, which is a winner compare to 3 years warranty for RED NAS PRO.I hope it will last as my Gold HDDs (almost 3 years now, and all perfect) and longer.So get it before WD will realize that consumer don't need Enterprise Class HDD enclosure and will substitute it with something cheaper as it done in past - I have 6-7 years old My Book External 8TB Helium HDD, one of the first ones, still working like new, not a single hiccup. Nowadays regular WD Externals come with either Green or RED HDDs, which are far inferior to my 7200 rpm Helium.If it is not DOA or produces loud clicking noise, it will last most likely forever in regular consumer applications, so strongly recommend.

I've used my D10 for something like 2 years since ordering off of Newegg early on in the pandemic, and was very satisfied with the actual performance of the drive when using it as a secondary SteamLibrary unit.Allocating disk space during Steam game installs can either be instantaneous, semi-fast, or agonizingly slow depending on the type of storage media you're installing your game onto, and most HDDs tend to err on the agonizining slow slide of things--even the 7,200 RPM drives (especially the external drives) unless you've got a proper SATA setup going on.Suffice it to say, the D10 is nothing like other HDDs insomuch as Steam library installations go. Every install that I've put on this drive has been on the instantaneous/very-fast side of things, and when ... MoreI've used my D10 for something like 2 years since ordering off of Newegg early on in the pandemic, and was very satisfied with the actual performance of the drive when using it as a secondary SteamLibrary unit.Allocating disk space during Steam game installs can either be instantaneous, semi-fast, or agonizingly slow depending on the type of storage media you're installing your game onto, and most HDDs tend to err on the agonizining slow slide of things--even the 7,200 RPM drives (especially the external drives) unless you've got a proper SATA setup going on.Suffice it to say, the D10 is nothing like other HDDs insomuch as Steam library installations go. Every install that I've put on this drive has been on the instantaneous/very-fast side of things, and when you're queueing up multiple games (especially if you've got several terabytes worth of titles you're interested in putting in your download queue) this seemingly simple difference in space allocation speed can literally shave as much as 30-60 minutes of waiting time off of your queueing process if you're lining up 30-40+ titles for download.Not to mention, faster write speeds and space allocation also means there's less of a hardware throttle/bottleneck on your download speeds; if you have 2.5GB fiber optic like me, this can mean the difference in as much as 50-100MB/s of download throughput per second. I have external SSDs (first generation, mind you) that are slower than my D10--this is one impressive HDD, and for the price its seriously hard considering buying anything else for the excellent performance. I got mine on sale during Black Friday for something like $79--that's a hair less than $10 per terabyte of storage. This is buy far the best price:performance ratio on any single piece of storage hardware (hell, maybe even just hardware in general) that I've ever paid for. The only disk better for my money that I've bought is my SK Hynix P41 2TB @ $139, and that's a Gen4 M2 clocking 7,000MBs both R/W that I was able to cop at a freakishly good Cyber Monday deal. So that's saying something.Unfortunately, I had to take off a star because I bought a brand new computer and with my new battlestation came a transition from Windows 10 to the new Windows 11. And now I can't get my new computer to read my D10 WD_Black drive at all, no matter which USB port I plug it into--I'm using an ASUS Crosshair VIII, so all my ports are 3.1 and 3.2. And it's not a Endpoints issue common with USB problems on Win 11; I've uninstalled all my other USB devices and left this the only one plugged in but it still won't be recognized by the explorer shell. If I plug it in to my Win 10 computer, however, it shows up just fine still. Talk about frustrating!! Sadly, I had to remove a star on the rating due to this serious compatibility issue, because I've downloaded all the suggested software and drivers/driver updates recommended in troubleshooting guides to zero avail.I'm keeping my fingers cross that it'll magically appear in explorer one day and I can once again enjoy this wonderful device. The performance difference while using these other spare external drives is massively noticeable when playing games, particularly when it comes to preloading textures and streaming cutscenes during gameplay. The D10 was smooth as butter and absolutely mellifluous, and now I'm having to deal with macro and microstuttering on the older external SSDs that I've been forced to replace my D10 with in the meantime, and it's an annoyingly disappointing nuisance. I just want my D10 back in action! :(

replaced 4tb wd external drive with this one for both ps4 and xbox. I didn't want to at first because the 4th drives don't require a separate power cable and things were nice and tidy, but I ran out of space on both with games. I purchased a 5tb wd black external first, but that was still not enough space. This was my final option and I am content. Don't like having a separate power cord for it, but it seems 5 tb is the highest for the usb powered ones so this has to do. Its 7.35tb as one would expect and it can hold plenty of games. over 119 ps4 games on it now, BUT I see a 12 tb wd black drive and I think i need that one. I have 90% of all my digital games for ps4 loaded and I am almost out of space again. I dont like to delete and download games over again, ... Morereplaced 4tb wd external drive with this one for both ps4 and xbox. I didn't want to at first because the 4th drives don't require a separate power cable and things were nice and tidy, but I ran out of space on both with games. I purchased a 5tb wd black external first, but that was still not enough space. This was my final option and I am content. Don't like having a separate power cord for it, but it seems 5 tb is the highest for the usb powered ones so this has to do. Its 7.35tb as one would expect and it can hold plenty of games. over 119 ps4 games on it now, BUT I see a 12 tb wd black drive and I think i need that one. I have 90% of all my digital games for ps4 loaded and I am almost out of space again. I dont like to delete and download games over again, rather just have them all on the drive to play at any time. Good drive, not loud.