Western Digital 10TB WD_Black Performance Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD102FZBX

I Purchased 2 Drives. 1 Worked and other had some manufacturing issue from the start. NO Return Policy, Lost Lots of Money on this.

Ninguna queja le tengo a este hdd. es todo lo que dice ser, para juegos va excelente, tengo instalado el resident evil 9 y me va de maravilla, simplemente muy recomendable!!

Based on other reviews here, I almost passed on buying this drive, but I'm glad I didn't. I already had a Seagate Barracuda 4TB 3.5" HDD in my other rig that I use to store games on an off my SSD's, saving me from redownloading them, and even thou it's a great drive for the price, read/write speed are not very fast and it was bugging me. So when this drive had a sale for black friday, with better specs and speed for only 35$ more, I wanted to try it, but reviews we're discouraging with people saying they got dead drives or used one in their order. Anyway I took a chance, figuring I would return it, worst case being, and I'm glad I did. Because I got a brand new unit in a sealed box/anti-static bag. It seems to work perfect and checked it in hard disk sentinel and it shows 0 days 0 hours and a 100% clean bill of health. From personnal experience, I've had Seagate drive quit on me after a couple of years of uses, but my Western Digital one never seems to quit, also it has 5yrs warranty, so I will see how it will turn out over time. It also is a 7200 RPM drive and is a little faster at transferring than the Seagate being a 5400 RPM drive, hitting close to 400 mbps over 250-280 mbps, which was an irritant for me. I'm also wondering if people leaving bad reviews on dead drives, weren't doing things wrong. These 3.5" drives need to be plug-in on power from a PSU or a proper usb enclosure with external power. They draw to much to be tested on a usb SATA adapter and will not work from usb port power alone. Also every new drive needs to be initialized in windows disk manager and formatted for it to then show in windows explorer, leaves me wondering if people just tried to hook them up to an usb adapter and open explorer to not be able to see the new drive there and then call it quits and leave a poor review. Anyway I'm happy with mine, crossing my fingers it will last! 🤞

Despite the negative reviews, I went ahead a bought this. There has not been any troubles at all. I initialized it and then it worked perfectly. I is quite a bit faster than any previous hard disk I have ever owned.

In my experience Western Digital Black hard drives are the fastest, most reliable drives I have ever owned. I don't look anywhere else anymore after trying a competitor brand and having it fail within a year. For many, many years they have outlasted their storage capacity and been replaced only for that reason. Regular Smart Checks show them always functioning at full efficiency. For audio production I highly recommend.

I worked in IT for more than 25 years and this is the noisiest HDD I've ever heard. 😅 But it performs well for a hard drive.