
I chose WD for they have never failed me as other drives have failed. I hope to update this review in a couple of years and report on the status of this drive.

Working great after about a week. Sure seems like it's faster than my old one.

No Problem with these drives. Plug them in, initialize, format and you're off and running. Great 5 year warranty and high duty cycle are the draws here.

Large Size Works Great Stable Have ordered 100s of WD Gold none have failed so far

By MB, the cheapest and reliable HD in the market Will last many years of constant use

- performance at least 50% better than comparable home-application hard drives - excellent (theoretical) MTBF specs, so reliability should be top-line - built for RAID performance - with a good backup system, a striped setup with two Datacenter Gold drives (RAID 0) achieved performance within 75%-80% of the speed of my Samsung SSD EVO 500GB (the OS drive).


Price was good and the drives have performed as anticipated in a mirror configuration.

-Transfer rates are good - average a little over 200MB/s, drive to drive on the same LSI HBA on Unraid if it matters. -Temperature is good - average 30C in a 20C room during continuous transfer of files, about the same as a 6TB (WD6003FFBX), and about 5C lower than a 10TB (WD102KFBX). Idle temp is ~26C. This drive and comparables are in the same server/array. - Noise is relatively low, about the same as a 6TB and noticeably more quiet than the 10TB. - Cost per TB is good when on sale, very close to the largest 18-22TB rate.

This is a great hard drive. Its fast and quiet, and I have a lot of confidence in Western Digital drives. Ive been using them fo many years, and have never had an issue with a single one of them.

Just what I wanted.

WD BLACK SERIES WD1003FZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Pros: Buy this one if you want a trouble free hard drive. Great warranty, great reliability, and the speed needed!

Large capacity - 2TB Fast enough - 6.0GB SATA3

WD Blues are great drives, same basic thing as the black and cost less


Lots of storage

Loaded Win 10 first try, no failures.


- Ample storage- Adequate data transfer speeds- Large 256MB cache

Huge capacity, very fast