WD RE (Datacenter Storage) 1TB WD1003FBYZ drives combine up to 64 MB cache with SATA 6 Gb/s transfer rate for lightning-fast performance in demanding server and storage applications. Technologically advanced acoustics minimize noise. Cool drive operation and enhanced reliability features help protect the drive and the data stored on it.
WD RE (Datacenter Storage) 1TB WD1003FBYZ drives combine up to 64 MB cache with SATA 6 Gb/s transfer rate for lightning-fast performance in demanding server and storage applications. Technologically advanced acoustics minimize noise. Cool drive operation and enhanced reliability features help protect the drive and the data stored on it.
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WD Re WD1003FBYZ - Hard Drive - 1 TB - Internal - 3.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - 7200 RPM - Buffer: 64 MB
WD RE (Datacenter Storage) 1TB WD1003FBYZ drives combine up to 64 MB cache with SATA 6 Gb/s transfer rate for lightning-fast performance in demanding server and storage applications. Technologically advanced acoustics minimize noise. Cool drive operation and enhanced reliability features help protect the drive and the data stored on it.
WD RE (Datacenter Storage) 1TB WD1003FBYZ drives combine up to 64 MB cache with SATA 6 Gb/s transfer rate for lightning-fast performance in demanding server and storage applications. Technologically advanced acoustics minimize noise. Cool drive operation and enhanced reliability features help protect the drive and the data stored on it.
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I’ve purchase this one single hard drive for my pc and I have not had issues so far. It’s simple and easy to use, I just had to reset it to the necessary settings for my pc to begin reading and writing on it. I only need this to transfer all my files and videos, which allows me to save space on my main ssd. I have not throughly tested the speeds as I’m not too tech savvy so I am satisfied with it. However, I was bit confused when I recieve a “generic/no label” hard drive in my package but it was the same specs as the listing. Since I am a bit new in the PC community, I would have assumed the product would match exactly to the listing but there was no other issues. Product works well so I would consider this if you are in the market
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So my son who is an avid PC gamer. His PC prior to this purchase had a 1TB Intel 660P NVME drive for OS and apps/games and a 1TB WD Blue mechanical drive. Of course, he also installed games on the WD Blue drive and is always out of space. He wanted something with more storage and I cautiously recommended the WD Black 6TB drive base don name, hopefully quality and reliability associated with the WD brand and of course the performance that WD Black implies. Pricing wise, not sure if I got a good deal or not. I suspect these drives are drying up because I do not believe they are actively being manufactured anymore. All that being said, installation was straightforward. Was proud of myself for cloning the 1TB mechanical WD Blue drive to the WD Black and then using tools ... MoreSo my son who is an avid PC gamer. His PC prior to this purchase had a 1TB Intel 660P NVME drive for OS and apps/games and a 1TB WD Blue mechanical drive. Of course, he also installed games on the WD Blue drive and is always out of space. He wanted something with more storage and I cautiously recommended the WD Black 6TB drive base don name, hopefully quality and reliability associated with the WD brand and of course the performance that WD Black implies. Pricing wise, not sure if I got a good deal or not. I suspect these drives are drying up because I do not believe they are actively being manufactured anymore. All that being said, installation was straightforward. Was proud of myself for cloning the 1TB mechanical WD Blue drive to the WD Black and then using tools to convert the cloned image from MBR to GPT once it was laid back down on the Black drive and expand the partition to the full 5.35GB readable by Windows. After all said and done, everything just worked and all the game installs and other things on the new Black drive worked without incident. This drive does make a bit more "noise" than the Blue it replaced. I assume there are more platters in it and that they may be at a different spindle speed than the Blue drive it replaced. Anyway, drive noise just makes me nervous. Other reviews indicate that this drive runs warmer than other drives and while I cannot say one way or the other, I do worry about temperatures overall in the PC it is installed in. Paranoia aside that a spindle drive is doomed to fail out of the box, performance wise this drive does seem to perform well. Games that were installed on it, do launch quicker than when they were on the Blue. Another interesting observation. We are fortunate to have 1Gb FIOS internet. When downloading and installing games from Steam onto the Intel 660p, it doesn't take long for the write cache of the Intel 660p to saturate and write speeds drop to a crawl. However, when downloading games from Steam to the WD Black, the write speeds while downloading large games seems to be more consistent and maintain a higher median level. I suspect the write cache in the Black is larger and maybe managed better than the Intel 660p even though it is an NVME. Of course reviews for Intel 660p do suggest that it really does suffer when its write cache is saturated. Overall, my son is very happy with this drive. As long as it lasts and gives him good service, I am cautiously optimistic. I really do think that we need to get good quality consumer grade SSD/NVME drives at mechanical HDD prices if we want to drive PC storage forward. I would have loved to purchase a 2.5" form factor SSD of the same size but prices are just too high once you get beyond 2TB.
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I've been using WD Red drives in my 5 bay Drobo NAS appliance for many years. I recently decided to up my capacity by replacing a 2TB drive with a larger 4TB drive. I went to NewEgg and grabbed this item thinking it was the same as the 4TB drive I bought just over a year ago. I was unaware that, in early 2020, WD did a major redesign on this product by changing the data recording scheme from "CMR" (Conventional Magnetic Recording) to the more dense "SMR" (Shingled Magnetic Recording). That change gives WD the potential to produce the drive cheaper but it also introduces complications when writing data. The result is a drive that has slower write performance than the "CMR" version. WD added caching mechanisms to try to smooth the write performance, but that cache can ... MoreI've been using WD Red drives in my 5 bay Drobo NAS appliance for many years. I recently decided to up my capacity by replacing a 2TB drive with a larger 4TB drive. I went to NewEgg and grabbed this item thinking it was the same as the 4TB drive I bought just over a year ago. I was unaware that, in early 2020, WD did a major redesign on this product by changing the data recording scheme from "CMR" (Conventional Magnetic Recording) to the more dense "SMR" (Shingled Magnetic Recording). That change gives WD the potential to produce the drive cheaper but it also introduces complications when writing data. The result is a drive that has slower write performance than the "CMR" version. WD added caching mechanisms to try to smooth the write performance, but that cache can apparently be filled when writing large files or high volumes of data. All my crashes seem to have occurred when trying to perform a full system backup on one of my networked machines. After the third crash I went online and discovered numerous postings by others who have also had issues with the new "SMR" drives. It took some time before WD finally admitted they had made this change and published documents saying which drive models were affected. (If you've ever wondered what the difference is between the "WD Red" and "WD Red Plus" lines are; for drives between 2TB and 6TB, the "Red" line uses "SMR" and the "Red Plus" line retains the old "CMR". Now you have to pay the premium "Plus" price to get the same drive you used to get as standard!) Online discussions showed many others have had problems with these "SMR" drives in raid configurations. For some time, WD appeared to try to explain away these problems. They ultimately announced that they had made this change and indicated that they still stand behind this product for use in NAS arrays. This definitely shakes my confidence in WD as a reliable source. If I had known all this before I ordered, I would have purchased the "Red Plus" version of the drive. Better still, I would have bought a different brand that is more upfront about the way it treats customers. Meanwhile, I'm stuck with a 4TB doorstop. Maybe I can use it for archival storage?
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 1 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" x 1/3H |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
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Western WD1003FBYZ RE4 7.2K 3.5" Enterprise SATA Hard Disk Drive
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I’ve purchase this one single hard drive for my pc and I have not had issues so far. It’s simple and easy to use, I just had to reset it to the necessary settings for my pc to begin reading and writing on it. I only need this to transfer all my files and videos, which allows me to save space on my main ssd. I have not throughly tested the speeds as I’m not too tech savvy so I am satisfied with it. However, I was bit confused when I recieve a “generic/no label” hard drive in my package but it was the same specs as the listing. Since I am a bit new in the PC community, I would have assumed the product would match exactly to the listing but there was no other issues. Product works well so I would consider this if you are in the market
So my son who is an avid PC gamer. His PC prior to this purchase had a 1TB Intel 660P NVME drive for OS and apps/games and a 1TB WD Blue mechanical drive. Of course, he also installed games on the WD Blue drive and is always out of space. He wanted something with more storage and I cautiously recommended the WD Black 6TB drive base don name, hopefully quality and reliability associated with the WD brand and of course the performance that WD Black implies. Pricing wise, not sure if I got a good deal or not. I suspect these drives are drying up because I do not believe they are actively being manufactured anymore. All that being said, installation was straightforward. Was proud of myself for cloning the 1TB mechanical WD Blue drive to the WD Black and then using tools ... MoreSo my son who is an avid PC gamer. His PC prior to this purchase had a 1TB Intel 660P NVME drive for OS and apps/games and a 1TB WD Blue mechanical drive. Of course, he also installed games on the WD Blue drive and is always out of space. He wanted something with more storage and I cautiously recommended the WD Black 6TB drive base don name, hopefully quality and reliability associated with the WD brand and of course the performance that WD Black implies. Pricing wise, not sure if I got a good deal or not. I suspect these drives are drying up because I do not believe they are actively being manufactured anymore. All that being said, installation was straightforward. Was proud of myself for cloning the 1TB mechanical WD Blue drive to the WD Black and then using tools to convert the cloned image from MBR to GPT once it was laid back down on the Black drive and expand the partition to the full 5.35GB readable by Windows. After all said and done, everything just worked and all the game installs and other things on the new Black drive worked without incident. This drive does make a bit more "noise" than the Blue it replaced. I assume there are more platters in it and that they may be at a different spindle speed than the Blue drive it replaced. Anyway, drive noise just makes me nervous. Other reviews indicate that this drive runs warmer than other drives and while I cannot say one way or the other, I do worry about temperatures overall in the PC it is installed in. Paranoia aside that a spindle drive is doomed to fail out of the box, performance wise this drive does seem to perform well. Games that were installed on it, do launch quicker than when they were on the Blue. Another interesting observation. We are fortunate to have 1Gb FIOS internet. When downloading and installing games from Steam onto the Intel 660p, it doesn't take long for the write cache of the Intel 660p to saturate and write speeds drop to a crawl. However, when downloading games from Steam to the WD Black, the write speeds while downloading large games seems to be more consistent and maintain a higher median level. I suspect the write cache in the Black is larger and maybe managed better than the Intel 660p even though it is an NVME. Of course reviews for Intel 660p do suggest that it really does suffer when its write cache is saturated. Overall, my son is very happy with this drive. As long as it lasts and gives him good service, I am cautiously optimistic. I really do think that we need to get good quality consumer grade SSD/NVME drives at mechanical HDD prices if we want to drive PC storage forward. I would have loved to purchase a 2.5" form factor SSD of the same size but prices are just too high once you get beyond 2TB.
I've been using WD Red drives in my 5 bay Drobo NAS appliance for many years. I recently decided to up my capacity by replacing a 2TB drive with a larger 4TB drive. I went to NewEgg and grabbed this item thinking it was the same as the 4TB drive I bought just over a year ago. I was unaware that, in early 2020, WD did a major redesign on this product by changing the data recording scheme from "CMR" (Conventional Magnetic Recording) to the more dense "SMR" (Shingled Magnetic Recording). That change gives WD the potential to produce the drive cheaper but it also introduces complications when writing data. The result is a drive that has slower write performance than the "CMR" version. WD added caching mechanisms to try to smooth the write performance, but that cache can ... MoreI've been using WD Red drives in my 5 bay Drobo NAS appliance for many years. I recently decided to up my capacity by replacing a 2TB drive with a larger 4TB drive. I went to NewEgg and grabbed this item thinking it was the same as the 4TB drive I bought just over a year ago. I was unaware that, in early 2020, WD did a major redesign on this product by changing the data recording scheme from "CMR" (Conventional Magnetic Recording) to the more dense "SMR" (Shingled Magnetic Recording). That change gives WD the potential to produce the drive cheaper but it also introduces complications when writing data. The result is a drive that has slower write performance than the "CMR" version. WD added caching mechanisms to try to smooth the write performance, but that cache can apparently be filled when writing large files or high volumes of data. All my crashes seem to have occurred when trying to perform a full system backup on one of my networked machines. After the third crash I went online and discovered numerous postings by others who have also had issues with the new "SMR" drives. It took some time before WD finally admitted they had made this change and published documents saying which drive models were affected. (If you've ever wondered what the difference is between the "WD Red" and "WD Red Plus" lines are; for drives between 2TB and 6TB, the "Red" line uses "SMR" and the "Red Plus" line retains the old "CMR". Now you have to pay the premium "Plus" price to get the same drive you used to get as standard!) Online discussions showed many others have had problems with these "SMR" drives in raid configurations. For some time, WD appeared to try to explain away these problems. They ultimately announced that they had made this change and indicated that they still stand behind this product for use in NAS arrays. This definitely shakes my confidence in WD as a reliable source. If I had known all this before I ordered, I would have purchased the "Red Plus" version of the drive. Better still, I would have bought a different brand that is more upfront about the way it treats customers. Meanwhile, I'm stuck with a 4TB doorstop. Maybe I can use it for archival storage?
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.
It has a tendency to slow down the computer when running larger applications as soon as it starts up. I’ve also seen it cause a BSOD (blue screen of death) when immediately trying to run a very demanding game as soon as I start up the PC. I highly recommend their SSD over the HDD although the only problem I’ve noticed with an SSD is that games take 10X longer to download. When I downloaded mortal combat 1 on the HDD it took the game 3 hours while running 100mbps. I also do not recommend putting main games on the HDD or the operating system. Currently my OS is on the HDD and is fine for because my SSD is only 500 GB but I recommend using the HDD For games you may not play all that often cause games like valorant can take up to 5 minutes to load into the main menu. ... MoreIt has a tendency to slow down the computer when running larger applications as soon as it starts up. I’ve also seen it cause a BSOD (blue screen of death) when immediately trying to run a very demanding game as soon as I start up the PC. I highly recommend their SSD over the HDD although the only problem I’ve noticed with an SSD is that games take 10X longer to download. When I downloaded mortal combat 1 on the HDD it took the game 3 hours while running 100mbps. I also do not recommend putting main games on the HDD or the operating system. Currently my OS is on the HDD and is fine for because my SSD is only 500 GB but I recommend using the HDD For games you may not play all that often cause games like valorant can take up to 5 minutes to load into the main menu. This is very price efficient though and works great for starting setups and runs very well. I can download a 100gb game in 30 minutes or less with this. HIGHLY recommend for a backup storage but I don’t suggest using it as the main running storage.
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.
It does not work and I contacted customer support but haven't heard from them. The bios recognizes it but it doesn't budge. There's not even a peep coming from it. This is the 6TB 128 cache. D.O.A., Jim! The review is based on the model 128 cache. The 256, worked wonderfully. I wonder if I received a refurbished model, it had no WD Black serious looking sticker on the outside of the foil wrap bag, just a plain oem style, no markings. Disappointed.
I purchasd 2 hard drives (4 TB) in 2021 for the Open Media Vault NAS. One hard drive stopped working in 2023 (and NAS was not production, just waiting on a shelf). Then another hard drive degraded in 2024. The motor starts spinning and then stops every 8-10 seconds. As a result, ETC of resyncing 4 TB parralel RAID massive is 128 hours or 5 days! This is a disaster! Both hard drives were manufactured on August 2021). My older hard drives (the oldest one manifatured in 2007) are still alive.
I purchased the Red 6TB drive as a replacement drive for by 5-bay Drobo connected to our home Mac server, and used for storing Time Machine backups for our 5 computers. The Drobo has only WD Red drives purchased over the past years, gradually swapping in larger Red drives as old ones fail or I needed increased storage space. This is probably at least the 10th Red drive I have swapped in to our Drobo. As soon as I swapped in this drive I noticed it wasn't as usual. The Drobo would unmount and re-mount repeatedly during the RAID rebuild phase. When it was done rebuilding I tested it out by running a Time Machine backup, which should do an incremental change to a sparse bundle file. I noticed that the entire sparsebundle file (1.7TB) was reduced to zero bytes and the ... MoreI purchased the Red 6TB drive as a replacement drive for by 5-bay Drobo connected to our home Mac server, and used for storing Time Machine backups for our 5 computers. The Drobo has only WD Red drives purchased over the past years, gradually swapping in larger Red drives as old ones fail or I needed increased storage space. This is probably at least the 10th Red drive I have swapped in to our Drobo. As soon as I swapped in this drive I noticed it wasn't as usual. The Drobo would unmount and re-mount repeatedly during the RAID rebuild phase. When it was done rebuilding I tested it out by running a Time Machine backup, which should do an incremental change to a sparse bundle file. I noticed that the entire sparsebundle file (1.7TB) was reduced to zero bytes and the backup software prompted to perform a "first backup", i.e. the historical changes were lost. I then noticed that this was the case also for all backup sets for the four other computers in our home. I now realize that the Red drive I purchased uses SMR instead of CMR and that these new Red drives don't appear to be suitable at all for our purpose. I can see that this information is on the website but how can WD make such a significant change to a product line and keep its name? Apparently, the Red is now named Red Plus but that was not obvious at all. I cannot believe how the good people at WD could allow this to happen. This is probably a decent standalone drive but it should not have been allowed to drag the Red (NAS/RAID) product line in the dirt. I am devastated, sad and angry with myself for trusting the product name so deeply that I didn't do research. And I am angry with WD for betraying that trust.
I bought the Western Digital WD4006FZBX drive to install in a new Dell Windows 11 computer which comes with only 1/2 TB SSD. I will use the WD4006FZBX HDD to store large user files. Two TB would have been plenty, but I selected the WD4006FZBX because it has 256MB cache, making it 63% faster than those with only 64MB which are commonly sold. If you buy 4TB, look on line to find how to GPT format and partition it so your system can access the entire drive. Dell tech support says you can't, but it works fine.
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 1 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" x 1/3H |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
