Western Digital WD_BLACK 8TB Performance Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD8002FZBX

Does not work. Not detected by the computer. Disk management unable ti initialize the disk gives error. So disappointed..

Sometimes you gotta sacrifice silence for performance. This being a spinning disk it makes a bit of noise when reading/writing, however it's okay and fully functional. Great speed and useful for new builds.

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! 🤞

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.

Robusto, rápido en transferencias,

To be honest I read lots of negative comments about this hard drive that it makes loud noise and isn’t reliable , but all are wrong . I receive it in good condition and it works fine without noise but it need’s to initialize the hard disk first and make it online on disk management after that you format it and it’s ready .