WD Desktop Black 4TB HDD 7200RPM 6Gb/s Serial ATA SATA WD4005FZBX
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Western Digital 1 TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - WD1003FBYX
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Western Digital 256MB 6TB SATA3 Hard Drive, Black
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In the past, I have had mixed results with WD hard drives(black mainly), but with the WD4005F2BX I just installed, the performance and noise has been quite acceptable. By most standards, the speed and spin-up times are above average and thankfully I have had no clicking or thumbing noises during operations. That being said, I performed CrystalDiskMark tests and will remain vigilant as to any declining signs as I load my critical data onto this drive. My experience has taught me to always keep a data backup because some drives never provide a warning before crashing. I give an optimistic 4 stars reserving my full opinion for what lies ahead. Here are my CrystalDiskMark Test results: CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : ... MoreIn the past, I have had mixed results with WD hard drives(black mainly), but with the WD4005F2BX I just installed, the performance and noise has been quite acceptable. By most standards, the speed and spin-up times are above average and thankfully I have had no clicking or thumbing noises during operations. That being said, I performed CrystalDiskMark tests and will remain vigilant as to any declining signs as I load my critical data onto this drive. My experience has taught me to always keep a data backup because some drives never provide a warning before crashing. I give an optimistic 4 stars reserving my full opinion for what lies ahead. Here are my CrystalDiskMark Test results: CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 213.544 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 214.067 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 3.644 MB/s [ 889.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 5.367 MB/s [ 1310.3 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 4.200 MB/s [ 1025.4 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 5.108 MB/s [ 1247.1 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 3.190 MB/s [ 778.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 4.278 MB/s [ 1044.4 IOPS] Test : 4096 MiB [E: 79.8% (1558.9/1953.1 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2018/12/31 13:43:26 OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 17134] (x64) All Results WD-4TB,Volume 1(1.9TB), 12-30-2018 CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 205.045 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 205.552 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 3.447 MB/s [ 841.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 5.215 MB/s [ 1273.2 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 4.166 MB/s [ 1017.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 5.313 MB/s [ 1297.1 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 2.235 MB/s [ 545.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 4.313 MB/s [ 1053.0 IOPS] Test : 4096 MiB [F: 45.6% (808.8/1772.9 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2018/12/31 14:07:42 OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 17134] (x64) WD-4TB, VOLUME 2(2/2), 12-30-2018 Update: This WD4005FZBX(4TB) drive continues to perform flawlessly with very little noise. I re-partitioned it for two equal partitions, one for my TV Series and the other for my Documentaries and it is now more than .75 full on both partitions. To be safe, I am now beginning to backup all these media files onto two other 2TB drives on another PC. It is tedious but there is always the chance that the 4tB drive will die and all the data will be gone. In my world there is never a good excuse for not backing up. I give Western Digital the 5th star at this point, but I am still remaining cautious for the future. Note: Just recently purchased a 2nd 4TB drive and it has also been operating flawlessly with no unusual noises or vibrating sounds as reported by other customers. I hope to report back in a few months that this drive is continuing to perform as expected.
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The order process and delivery was excellent. I was in need of the extra disk space in my Windows 10 environment. This drive was installed externally with a USB 3 connection. Installation went without a hitch. I've only had the drive installed for about 3 weeks and it is performing like a champ. I am a retired network professional. Western Digital has been around for a long time and they produce a quality products. I had to do a little research on the internet price differences. If you go for the deals offered at lower prices, beware. You may get a used drive or one on which the warranty time has been all but used up. There is no free lunch and buying directly from Western Digital will insure the best quality and warranty terms (5 years). The 6 Tb Black (sata) drive ... MoreThe order process and delivery was excellent. I was in need of the extra disk space in my Windows 10 environment. This drive was installed externally with a USB 3 connection. Installation went without a hitch. I've only had the drive installed for about 3 weeks and it is performing like a champ. I am a retired network professional. Western Digital has been around for a long time and they produce a quality products. I had to do a little research on the internet price differences. If you go for the deals offered at lower prices, beware. You may get a used drive or one on which the warranty time has been all but used up. There is no free lunch and buying directly from Western Digital will insure the best quality and warranty terms (5 years). The 6 Tb Black (sata) drive is just another excellent choice in a long line of quality products from Western Digital.
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I bought this to convert movie files to folders of tif images. (tif images are basically bit maps that can hold movie color space. They're huge.) It is able to keep up with the image processing program I have that outputs to that. The other hard drive I was using could not keep up and would slow the whole thing down.I'm impressed with the capacity and ability of this drive compared to the price.I'm taking a star off because this drive disappears for about 15 seconds every hour or so. Everything that's using it freezes until it comes back. I doubt that's normal behavior, but since I'm only storing temporary data on it, and it always comes back, so I don't think it needs a replacement.I don't remember if this has RAM or what, but when writing to it, it can take ... MoreI bought this to convert movie files to folders of tif images. (tif images are basically bit maps that can hold movie color space. They're huge.) It is able to keep up with the image processing program I have that outputs to that. The other hard drive I was using could not keep up and would slow the whole thing down.I'm impressed with the capacity and ability of this drive compared to the price.I'm taking a star off because this drive disappears for about 15 seconds every hour or so. Everything that's using it freezes until it comes back. I doubt that's normal behavior, but since I'm only storing temporary data on it, and it always comes back, so I don't think it needs a replacement.I don't remember if this has RAM or what, but when writing to it, it can take about 5GB really fast. Then it slows down to about 160MB per second, plus or minus 10. For reference, gigabit ethernet caps at 115MB per second. (These are all numbers displayed by Windows OS.)
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 4 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
Western Digital 1 TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - WD1003FBYX
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Western Digital WD2003FZEX Black 2TB 3.5" HDD SATA 6gb/s 7200RPM 64MB Cache CMR Tech for Hi-Res Video Games 5yrs Wty
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Western Digital 256MB 6TB SATA3 Hard Drive, Black
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Western Digital WD1003FBYX WD RE4 1Tb SATA-3Gbps 7200Rpm 3.5-Inch Hard Drive
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In the past, I have had mixed results with WD hard drives(black mainly), but with the WD4005F2BX I just installed, the performance and noise has been quite acceptable. By most standards, the speed and spin-up times are above average and thankfully I have had no clicking or thumbing noises during operations. That being said, I performed CrystalDiskMark tests and will remain vigilant as to any declining signs as I load my critical data onto this drive. My experience has taught me to always keep a data backup because some drives never provide a warning before crashing. I give an optimistic 4 stars reserving my full opinion for what lies ahead. Here are my CrystalDiskMark Test results: CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : ... MoreIn the past, I have had mixed results with WD hard drives(black mainly), but with the WD4005F2BX I just installed, the performance and noise has been quite acceptable. By most standards, the speed and spin-up times are above average and thankfully I have had no clicking or thumbing noises during operations. That being said, I performed CrystalDiskMark tests and will remain vigilant as to any declining signs as I load my critical data onto this drive. My experience has taught me to always keep a data backup because some drives never provide a warning before crashing. I give an optimistic 4 stars reserving my full opinion for what lies ahead. Here are my CrystalDiskMark Test results: CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 213.544 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 214.067 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 3.644 MB/s [ 889.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 5.367 MB/s [ 1310.3 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 4.200 MB/s [ 1025.4 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 5.108 MB/s [ 1247.1 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 3.190 MB/s [ 778.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 4.278 MB/s [ 1044.4 IOPS] Test : 4096 MiB [E: 79.8% (1558.9/1953.1 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2018/12/31 13:43:26 OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 17134] (x64) All Results WD-4TB,Volume 1(1.9TB), 12-30-2018 CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 205.045 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 205.552 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 3.447 MB/s [ 841.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 5.215 MB/s [ 1273.2 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 4.166 MB/s [ 1017.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 5.313 MB/s [ 1297.1 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 2.235 MB/s [ 545.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 4.313 MB/s [ 1053.0 IOPS] Test : 4096 MiB [F: 45.6% (808.8/1772.9 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2018/12/31 14:07:42 OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 17134] (x64) WD-4TB, VOLUME 2(2/2), 12-30-2018 Update: This WD4005FZBX(4TB) drive continues to perform flawlessly with very little noise. I re-partitioned it for two equal partitions, one for my TV Series and the other for my Documentaries and it is now more than .75 full on both partitions. To be safe, I am now beginning to backup all these media files onto two other 2TB drives on another PC. It is tedious but there is always the chance that the 4tB drive will die and all the data will be gone. In my world there is never a good excuse for not backing up. I give Western Digital the 5th star at this point, but I am still remaining cautious for the future. Note: Just recently purchased a 2nd 4TB drive and it has also been operating flawlessly with no unusual noises or vibrating sounds as reported by other customers. I hope to report back in a few months that this drive is continuing to perform as expected.
The order process and delivery was excellent. I was in need of the extra disk space in my Windows 10 environment. This drive was installed externally with a USB 3 connection. Installation went without a hitch. I've only had the drive installed for about 3 weeks and it is performing like a champ. I am a retired network professional. Western Digital has been around for a long time and they produce a quality products. I had to do a little research on the internet price differences. If you go for the deals offered at lower prices, beware. You may get a used drive or one on which the warranty time has been all but used up. There is no free lunch and buying directly from Western Digital will insure the best quality and warranty terms (5 years). The 6 Tb Black (sata) drive ... MoreThe order process and delivery was excellent. I was in need of the extra disk space in my Windows 10 environment. This drive was installed externally with a USB 3 connection. Installation went without a hitch. I've only had the drive installed for about 3 weeks and it is performing like a champ. I am a retired network professional. Western Digital has been around for a long time and they produce a quality products. I had to do a little research on the internet price differences. If you go for the deals offered at lower prices, beware. You may get a used drive or one on which the warranty time has been all but used up. There is no free lunch and buying directly from Western Digital will insure the best quality and warranty terms (5 years). The 6 Tb Black (sata) drive is just another excellent choice in a long line of quality products from Western Digital.
I bought this to convert movie files to folders of tif images. (tif images are basically bit maps that can hold movie color space. They're huge.) It is able to keep up with the image processing program I have that outputs to that. The other hard drive I was using could not keep up and would slow the whole thing down.I'm impressed with the capacity and ability of this drive compared to the price.I'm taking a star off because this drive disappears for about 15 seconds every hour or so. Everything that's using it freezes until it comes back. I doubt that's normal behavior, but since I'm only storing temporary data on it, and it always comes back, so I don't think it needs a replacement.I don't remember if this has RAM or what, but when writing to it, it can take ... MoreI bought this to convert movie files to folders of tif images. (tif images are basically bit maps that can hold movie color space. They're huge.) It is able to keep up with the image processing program I have that outputs to that. The other hard drive I was using could not keep up and would slow the whole thing down.I'm impressed with the capacity and ability of this drive compared to the price.I'm taking a star off because this drive disappears for about 15 seconds every hour or so. Everything that's using it freezes until it comes back. I doubt that's normal behavior, but since I'm only storing temporary data on it, and it always comes back, so I don't think it needs a replacement.I don't remember if this has RAM or what, but when writing to it, it can take about 5GB really fast. Then it slows down to about 160MB per second, plus or minus 10. For reference, gigabit ethernet caps at 115MB per second. (These are all numbers displayed by Windows OS.)
Pros: I cant tell you much about this actual drive yet...Ask me again in seven yearsI bought this hoping for speed and reliability weighed against price and based on previous experience of three 1TB black drives one of which has run daily for about seven years, another as a clone for back up so not running very often and the third for a Linux distro. But I have to say it is mostly blind faith. You pay a bit more and get a five year warranty which is no real help if you lose all the data, and my very first 1TB Caviar Black expired in less than a year! One just hopes they will expire as it did, with advanced warning rather than suddenly like an ssd! This 4TB is intended to replace a WD Green 2TB files drive that is no longer big enough but has also been running for ... MorePros: I cant tell you much about this actual drive yet...Ask me again in seven yearsI bought this hoping for speed and reliability weighed against price and based on previous experience of three 1TB black drives one of which has run daily for about seven years, another as a clone for back up so not running very often and the third for a Linux distro. But I have to say it is mostly blind faith. You pay a bit more and get a five year warranty which is no real help if you lose all the data, and my very first 1TB Caviar Black expired in less than a year! One just hopes they will expire as it did, with advanced warning rather than suddenly like an ssd! This 4TB is intended to replace a WD Green 2TB files drive that is no longer big enough but has also been running for six odd years as well. The 4TB black is claimed to have a faster transfer rate at 202MBs than the older 1TB drive at 150MBs and twice as fast as the Green 2TB.
In this review, you will not find a bunch of bench tests and load tests. Just straight up real world feedback from your typical gamer. I was hoping to get 2 years out of this drive with regular gaming etc. I’ll update if it dies for any reason.I took this drive out, hooked it up in my PC (3060, 12400f, 16gb RAM) and did a quick format. Renamed it and started loading games. This was surprisingly quiet, I anticipated it to be a lot louder being a purpose-built gaming HDD. It’s really not much louder than the fans running at 70%. It’s an HDD so you’ll hear it spool up and click etc, but I’ve never had anyone say they can hear it through my mic or anything.Downloading/writing games was quick. I don’t believe server speed can beat out the write speed on this drive. ... MoreIn this review, you will not find a bunch of bench tests and load tests. Just straight up real world feedback from your typical gamer. I was hoping to get 2 years out of this drive with regular gaming etc. I’ll update if it dies for any reason.I took this drive out, hooked it up in my PC (3060, 12400f, 16gb RAM) and did a quick format. Renamed it and started loading games. This was surprisingly quiet, I anticipated it to be a lot louder being a purpose-built gaming HDD. It’s really not much louder than the fans running at 70%. It’s an HDD so you’ll hear it spool up and click etc, but I’ve never had anyone say they can hear it through my mic or anything.Downloading/writing games was quick. I don’t believe server speed can beat out the write speed on this drive. I’m running 1.2gbps up and down and I haven’t met a server that can get me a game at 10% of that. So no delays when downloading/writing.In use, it works extremely well. I’m using this for storage but I also play off the HDD. I keep my AAA titles on an SSD (WZ2 etc.) and really only have MSFS2020 as far as heavy load games on this. Honestly, it doesn’t load MSFS any slower than an SSD. Same goes for Snowrunner. They load right up and there are no issues playing through this HDD, and I play MSFS on very high/ultra. Sometimes the GPU struggles but the HDD does not.Overall, I would highly recommend this to any casual-intermediate PC gamer, ESPECIALLY if you plan to play through the HDD. If you’re running a 4090ti and 13900K, maybe put your games on an SSD (you can afford it) but this drive has done everything I’ve asked of it.Again, if anything changes I’ll update but for now, I’m glad I ponied up the extra coin for this drive over a lesser unit.
For Hard Drives, it's kind of difficult to rate until we've had them long term, to see if they're going to fail or not. I've only had mine a few months at the time of this review, but so far, so good!It's been very fast, and mostly quiet as far as these kind of drives go, and was a decent price for the amount of storage. It was easy to install and just what my new system was missing.I use the more expensive Solid State Drives for boot up and some of my main files, but I use this to hold all my general storage. That's worked out great so far, and the game performance on it is pretty nice.It gets very high marks on benchmarks for this type of drive. All will be well as long as it holds up. Only time will tell there.
I've only been using this drive for about 2 weeks, but it installed easily and and was recognized by Windows 10 immediately. The only thing I had to do was initialize it in Windows disk management. It's been working very well as an additional storage drive (not an OS drive), which I am using to run Steam games from, as well as storing other files on. It runs very quiet in my case, virtually silent (even when accessed). So far this has been another great WD hard drive and will hopefully last as all of the other many WD drives I've owned. One thing puzzled me was the appearance of the drive I received. It looked like any other WD drive I've used and not the black-colored drive pictured on the WD website. Also, this is a bare drive and not a boxed kit. I don't know if ... MoreI've only been using this drive for about 2 weeks, but it installed easily and and was recognized by Windows 10 immediately. The only thing I had to do was initialize it in Windows disk management. It's been working very well as an additional storage drive (not an OS drive), which I am using to run Steam games from, as well as storing other files on. It runs very quiet in my case, virtually silent (even when accessed). So far this has been another great WD hard drive and will hopefully last as all of the other many WD drives I've owned. One thing puzzled me was the appearance of the drive I received. It looked like any other WD drive I've used and not the black-colored drive pictured on the WD website. Also, this is a bare drive and not a boxed kit. I don't know if the boxed drives are even available anymore, but that's no big deal to me.
I bought 2 6TB Black 3.5 inch hard drives directly from WD on March 9 2022. The website tracking is broken, it never showed these shipping, but a week later a small, (flimsy, falling apart, partially broken open) box arrived containing my hard drives. The drives were packed with no cushioning on the top or bottom and the cheap bubble wrap surrounding the drives was popped open. This terrible packing was very disappointing, but I hoped for the best... bad sadly the drives were either defective to start with (and WD knew it which is why the shipped like this) or they were damaged during shipping. One drive would not initialize, the other started but made a loud clanking noise/defective. I do not understand why anyone would pack sensitive electronic equipment like hard ... MoreI bought 2 6TB Black 3.5 inch hard drives directly from WD on March 9 2022. The website tracking is broken, it never showed these shipping, but a week later a small, (flimsy, falling apart, partially broken open) box arrived containing my hard drives. The drives were packed with no cushioning on the top or bottom and the cheap bubble wrap surrounding the drives was popped open. This terrible packing was very disappointing, but I hoped for the best... bad sadly the drives were either defective to start with (and WD knew it which is why the shipped like this) or they were damaged during shipping. One drive would not initialize, the other started but made a loud clanking noise/defective. I do not understand why anyone would pack sensitive electronic equipment like hard drives with no protection, unless they knew they were defective to start with and hoped I would not test them, put them on a shelf for later. I contacted what turned out to be the worst customer service from a large corporation ever. I tried the phone and email and all they ever said was "give us 2-3 day to look in to this". I did that for a week... WD showed they do not care/know the drives were bad to start with forcing me to open a paypal dispute to get my money back. I was stunned when WD had 14 days to reply... but NEVER replied to the dispute. At the end of the time limit paypal closed the case and refunded my money. It took me almost a month to get my money back. WD should be ashamed. I have purchased 20-25 hard drives over time from WD, and I guess I got lucky and worked... but every relationship is good until there is an issue.... then we see what is real..... WD is not real. WD is a terrible company in every department. I am disgusted at WD and I will never do business with Western Digital again.
2 of these WD Black HDDs had I/O Device Errors from the beginning. One sounded different after 60 days, with a Current Pending Sector Count of 8, an Uncorrectable Sector Count of 1, and Error Code 7 the next day. The WD Black totally crumbled after 5 weeks, before it could finish erasing once. The physical device WD6003FZBX-00K5WB0 (not the filesystem) could not be recognized without being connected before starting Linux, but prevents booting beyond POST. It was connected while displaying the F12 boot menu (after POST and before Linux), and everything had Input/Output Errors except HDDSuperClone, which has been erasing the HDD at 1530 KB/s for 4 weeks. None of our other disks have ever fallen apart to that extent in under 10 years. Customer reviews strongly reflect ... More2 of these WD Black HDDs had I/O Device Errors from the beginning. One sounded different after 60 days, with a Current Pending Sector Count of 8, an Uncorrectable Sector Count of 1, and Error Code 7 the next day. The WD Black totally crumbled after 5 weeks, before it could finish erasing once. The physical device WD6003FZBX-00K5WB0 (not the filesystem) could not be recognized without being connected before starting Linux, but prevents booting beyond POST. It was connected while displaying the F12 boot menu (after POST and before Linux), and everything had Input/Output Errors except HDDSuperClone, which has been erasing the HDD at 1530 KB/s for 4 weeks. None of our other disks have ever fallen apart to that extent in under 10 years. Customer reviews strongly reflect the increase of I/O Device Errors with Western Digital products.The WD Support website blocks an RMA as "OUT OF REGION", despite being purchased from the official Western Digital Store and never crossing borders. "OUT OF REGION" means the product was originally sold in a different country. Western Digital used to provide Advanced RMAs for free, before requiring expensive deposits and a permanent $25 charge, which is never refunded even after returning the original. The $25 cannot be refunded even when an Advanced RMA is refused outside the customer's control. Western Digital has customers submit the $25 before knowing invasive identity verification is required to continue, with no option to cancel and refund the $25 by the time the customer gets to know.Western Digital uses Styrofoam instead of polyethylene foam because it's slightly cheaper. Styrofoam cushions much more poorly than polyethylene foam, and should never be used for an expensive HDD. Styrofoam is also toxic and nearly impossible to recycle. Polyethylene foam is not much to ask for, as it's also inexpensive plastic. The quality of the Styrofoam accurately represented the product. Western Digital previously used polyethylene foam before becoming a scam company.In August 2021, a bait & switch scam was uncovered with the SN550 Blue SSD. Western Digital neglects severe vulnerabilities in My Cloud OS 3, and says to buy a new WD My Cloud if your existing product cannot be upgraded to OS 5. Instead of providing updates, Western Digital will leave customers vulnerable until later in 2022, when networking functionality will be crippled, with a ransom to purchase a new device with OS 5. Western Digital claims to have determined it necessary to end support for OS 3, even though it is not fundamentally flawed, and the problem is the very lack of support itself. I have accurately recommended Western Digital hundreds of times over the years, and do not regret that, but the new CEO David Goeckeler has trashed the company.
I hadnt built a full system in 20 years but Ive been upgrading every possible component on used machines because it was much more cost effective. I get to my build and decide on a 4tb black from WD because its the right size and figure buying direct is going to give me any support I might need. Generally, hds are plug and play, easy peasy with a bios update. Nope, bios cant see it. MSI is offering service repair after the third ticket because they dont know why the mb can see my cd-rom, ssds, etc but not my wd hd. Turns out, a well known problem quietly swept under the rug is the #3 3.3v pin designed to allow mb control also prevents it from spinning and is therefore ' useless.Is it even conceivable than wd could offer a solution for customers prior to purchasing? ... MoreI hadnt built a full system in 20 years but Ive been upgrading every possible component on used machines because it was much more cost effective. I get to my build and decide on a 4tb black from WD because its the right size and figure buying direct is going to give me any support I might need. Generally, hds are plug and play, easy peasy with a bios update. Nope, bios cant see it. MSI is offering service repair after the third ticket because they dont know why the mb can see my cd-rom, ssds, etc but not my wd hd. Turns out, a well known problem quietly swept under the rug is the #3 3.3v pin designed to allow mb control also prevents it from spinning and is therefore ' useless.Is it even conceivable than wd could offer a solution for customers prior to purchasing? Absolutely. Do they? No. You get to spend hours of your precious time unplugging, plugging, booting, rebooting, reconfiguribg researching, reading only to stumble across guys putting kapton tape on the pins or modifing sata extenders to disable the pin. Hoping one of those solutions works. The topper is paying twice the price from a direct outlet rather than Newegg just so I can stare at it a little longer. Done shopping here. Why would any manufacturer do this?
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 4 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
