Expand your gaming library with ease thanks to the WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive. Armed with an 8TB capacity, you’ll have ample room for your favourite video games, photos, videos, music, and much more. All of which you can access near instantaneously thanks to powerful SATA connectivity and the 256MB cache. Support for data transfer rates of 6Gb/s means it's never been easier to view and edit your files. WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive at a Glance: 8TB capacity 3.5’’ form factor Max fan speed of 5640 RPM SATA connectivity – supporting data transfer speeds of 6Gb/s 256MB cache Ample Storage Level up your PC’s storage with ease thanks to the WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive. Harness the 8TB capacity to store your expanding gaming library, precious family memories, favourite music tracks, and much more. All of which you can access and edit whenever you wish thanks to data transfer speeds of up to 6Gb/s via powerful SATA connectivity. The 256MB cache streamlines your experience, acting as a temporary storage area for anything you frequently access. What’s more, the 3.5’’ form factor means the WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive can easily fit into most modern-day PC cases, from Micro-ATX to Full Towers.
Expand your gaming library with ease thanks to the WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive. Armed with an 8TB capacity, you’ll have ample room for your favourite video games, photos, videos, music, and much more. All of which you can access near instantaneously thanks to powerful SATA connectivity and the 256MB cache. Support for data transfer rates of 6Gb/s means it's never been easier to view and edit your files. WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive at a Glance: 8TB capacity 3.5’’ form factor Max fan speed of 5640 RPM SATA connectivity – supporting data transfer speeds of 6Gb/s 256MB cache Ample Storage Level up your PC’s storage with ease thanks to the WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive. Harness the 8TB capacity to store your expanding gaming library, precious family memories, favourite music tracks, and much more. All of which you can access and edit whenever you wish thanks to data transfer speeds of up to 6Gb/s via powerful SATA connectivity. The 256MB cache streamlines your experience, acting as a temporary storage area for anything you frequently access. What’s more, the 3.5’’ form factor means the WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive can easily fit into most modern-day PC cases, from Micro-ATX to Full Towers.
Expand your gaming library with ease thanks to the WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive. Armed with an 8TB capacity, you’ll have ample room for your favourite video games, photos, videos, music, and much more. All of which you can access near instantaneously thanks to powerful SATA connectivity and the 256MB cache. Support for data transfer rates of 6Gb/s means it's never been easier to view and edit your files. WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive at a Glance: 8TB capacity 3.5’’ form factor Max fan speed of 5640 RPM SATA connectivity – supporting data transfer speeds of 6Gb/s 256MB cache Ample Storage Level up your PC’s storage with ease thanks to the WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive. Harness the 8TB capacity to store your expanding gaming library, precious family memories, favourite music tracks, and much more. All of which you can access and edit whenever you wish thanks to data transfer speeds of up to 6Gb/s via powerful SATA connectivity. The 256MB cache streamlines your experience, acting as a temporary storage area for anything you frequently access. What’s more, the 3.5’’ form factor means the WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive can easily fit into most modern-day PC cases, from Micro-ATX to Full Towers.
Expand your gaming library with ease thanks to the WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive. Armed with an 8TB capacity, you’ll have ample room for your favourite video games, photos, videos, music, and much more. All of which you can access near instantaneously thanks to powerful SATA connectivity and the 256MB cache. Support for data transfer rates of 6Gb/s means it's never been easier to view and edit your files. WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive at a Glance: 8TB capacity 3.5’’ form factor Max fan speed of 5640 RPM SATA connectivity – supporting data transfer speeds of 6Gb/s 256MB cache Ample Storage Level up your PC’s storage with ease thanks to the WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive. Harness the 8TB capacity to store your expanding gaming library, precious family memories, favourite music tracks, and much more. All of which you can access and edit whenever you wish thanks to data transfer speeds of up to 6Gb/s via powerful SATA connectivity. The 256MB cache streamlines your experience, acting as a temporary storage area for anything you frequently access. What’s more, the 3.5’’ form factor means the WD Blue 8TB 3.5’’ Internal Hard Drive can easily fit into most modern-day PC cases, from Micro-ATX to Full Towers.
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The customer support was great although it was by far the most obtuse route I've ever seen (if you contact them they'll have you call a number that puts you on hold that sends you a text that hyperlinks to a website that eventually puts you in a chatroom. Don't remember the full detail just that it was badly indirect even by DMV or unemployment office standards but the person was helpful). I'd thought this was a failing drive with seemingly random stuttering trying to watch an old 900p video that would then play it fine trying again later, userbenchmark benched it at 6.3%--yeah seriously. It kept acting weird too which was a shame as it was half full by then. Detected no problems with the drive, crystaldisk showed poor read and very poor write speed, but every ... MoreThe customer support was great although it was by far the most obtuse route I've ever seen (if you contact them they'll have you call a number that puts you on hold that sends you a text that hyperlinks to a website that eventually puts you in a chatroom. Don't remember the full detail just that it was badly indirect even by DMV or unemployment office standards but the person was helpful). I'd thought this was a failing drive with seemingly random stuttering trying to watch an old 900p video that would then play it fine trying again later, userbenchmark benched it at 6.3%--yeah seriously. It kept acting weird too which was a shame as it was half full by then. Detected no problems with the drive, crystaldisk showed poor read and very poor write speed, but every diagnostic tool said was fine, not fragmented, optimized, not filled with disk errors etc. Finally after going to UBM again the disk flatly wasn't even being detected anymore or giving me stats on testing it. After having to pull the drive out to find drive info for the rep and plugging it back in I think a different order or cable or something it started working fine. This is not the first review and apologies for one egg. I will say though that I'm knocking an egg off because I tried unplugging/replugging before and to this day am not sure what the problem was, or if it was truly user error and the cable wasn't seated correctly (but then why was I able to use it and it would work fine then suddenly barely work with bad transfer rates as opposed to not working at all? Or consistently working poorly?) I've seen a lot of bad reviews after all this and think it's plausible that there's a lot of bad drives out there, refurbs, idk what, but as of this writing it works fine. I've not had 10fps trying to play lower quality videos since. I still am not sure if I would put it past the drive to start acting weird again but right now it's been working for a week or two as normal and had it running for under a month although other reviews make me leery after that experience. Recommend? Eh. I mean frankly it's cheap enough and on sale enough that if you get a genuinely failed drive or DOA it is Western Digital so while you can't RMA it through Newegg after a short while the company will try to help you even if you end up paying postage or partial cost of the drive or whatever and if they didn't it wouldn't be a big loss. Don't regret the purchase, happy now.
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Faster to start and stop than its 4TB predecessor and as silent as it gets (unlike 8TB+ counterparts). Despite being 5400rpm compared to 7200rpm for bigger disks, I didn't see a difference in term of use, most likely because your average computer won't take advantage on the additional speed which is apparently more important for supporting more storage in the same volume. Since it's 5400 it's also very silent compared to bigger disks and that's welcomed when used in a desktop computer sitting next to you all day. If I have to increase my storage I will not buy bigger disk but rather add an additional 6TB. Like its predecessor I'll probably have to replace it in a couple years when there are too many S.M.A.R.T error which you should occasionally check using WD ... MoreFaster to start and stop than its 4TB predecessor and as silent as it gets (unlike 8TB+ counterparts). Despite being 5400rpm compared to 7200rpm for bigger disks, I didn't see a difference in term of use, most likely because your average computer won't take advantage on the additional speed which is apparently more important for supporting more storage in the same volume. Since it's 5400 it's also very silent compared to bigger disks and that's welcomed when used in a desktop computer sitting next to you all day. If I have to increase my storage I will not buy bigger disk but rather add an additional 6TB. Like its predecessor I'll probably have to replace it in a couple years when there are too many S.M.A.R.T error which you should occasionally check using WD "Dashboard" software. Also you should frequently backup your data to another external disk or cloud with something like FreeFileSync as with time if you're using it alone (and not in mirroring RAID or 2+ disks) you will get corrupt files without noticing and there will be no way to recover it.
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I will be honest, I should really have a NAS drive for the application I am using these drives in. I have a small home PLEX media storage as well as standard file storage. I took the classic cheap home builder route and instead of putting these in a true NAS enclosure I stuffed them into my NZXT Phantom Case. I use four 4TB drives that are located in the forward bay closures. The air moving through my case is borderline absurd. Currently moves enough air to work as a desk fan. Everything was cool until I came home to an irregular hard drive noise. Disk manager said everything was online. I ran a few CMD commands and checked drive health without any errors. I shut it down so I could open the case without and inspect things without shoving my hands through powered ... MoreI will be honest, I should really have a NAS drive for the application I am using these drives in. I have a small home PLEX media storage as well as standard file storage. I took the classic cheap home builder route and instead of putting these in a true NAS enclosure I stuffed them into my NZXT Phantom Case. I use four 4TB drives that are located in the forward bay closures. The air moving through my case is borderline absurd. Currently moves enough air to work as a desk fan. Everything was cool until I came home to an irregular hard drive noise. Disk manager said everything was online. I ran a few CMD commands and checked drive health without any errors. I shut it down so I could open the case without and inspect things without shoving my hands through powered hardware and found nothing irregular. I turn it back on....poof...storage drive #3 wont spin up (not initialized, no drive data). Tried a few things to get it back online again, mostly port swapping and trying to read it with an USB to SATA adapter. Drive never came back...caput. I guess it cool to see it abused hard and make it slightly past warranty but I really should have just sucked it up and got NAS drives with vibration dampening and 5 year warranties. I do like my WD products, I just need to stop being stupid and buy the drives rated for the abuse I throw at them. After installation I maybe powered this machine down only about 10 times for maybe 2 days or more . It's a non-stop workhorse in my house. WD Blue drives, good for normal everyday PC use; not for continuous on-time and data transfer punishment. Don't make my mistake, get the right drives the first time. Buy once, cry once as they say!
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| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 8 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
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The customer support was great although it was by far the most obtuse route I've ever seen (if you contact them they'll have you call a number that puts you on hold that sends you a text that hyperlinks to a website that eventually puts you in a chatroom. Don't remember the full detail just that it was badly indirect even by DMV or unemployment office standards but the person was helpful). I'd thought this was a failing drive with seemingly random stuttering trying to watch an old 900p video that would then play it fine trying again later, userbenchmark benched it at 6.3%--yeah seriously. It kept acting weird too which was a shame as it was half full by then. Detected no problems with the drive, crystaldisk showed poor read and very poor write speed, but every ... MoreThe customer support was great although it was by far the most obtuse route I've ever seen (if you contact them they'll have you call a number that puts you on hold that sends you a text that hyperlinks to a website that eventually puts you in a chatroom. Don't remember the full detail just that it was badly indirect even by DMV or unemployment office standards but the person was helpful). I'd thought this was a failing drive with seemingly random stuttering trying to watch an old 900p video that would then play it fine trying again later, userbenchmark benched it at 6.3%--yeah seriously. It kept acting weird too which was a shame as it was half full by then. Detected no problems with the drive, crystaldisk showed poor read and very poor write speed, but every diagnostic tool said was fine, not fragmented, optimized, not filled with disk errors etc. Finally after going to UBM again the disk flatly wasn't even being detected anymore or giving me stats on testing it. After having to pull the drive out to find drive info for the rep and plugging it back in I think a different order or cable or something it started working fine. This is not the first review and apologies for one egg. I will say though that I'm knocking an egg off because I tried unplugging/replugging before and to this day am not sure what the problem was, or if it was truly user error and the cable wasn't seated correctly (but then why was I able to use it and it would work fine then suddenly barely work with bad transfer rates as opposed to not working at all? Or consistently working poorly?) I've seen a lot of bad reviews after all this and think it's plausible that there's a lot of bad drives out there, refurbs, idk what, but as of this writing it works fine. I've not had 10fps trying to play lower quality videos since. I still am not sure if I would put it past the drive to start acting weird again but right now it's been working for a week or two as normal and had it running for under a month although other reviews make me leery after that experience. Recommend? Eh. I mean frankly it's cheap enough and on sale enough that if you get a genuinely failed drive or DOA it is Western Digital so while you can't RMA it through Newegg after a short while the company will try to help you even if you end up paying postage or partial cost of the drive or whatever and if they didn't it wouldn't be a big loss. Don't regret the purchase, happy now.
Faster to start and stop than its 4TB predecessor and as silent as it gets (unlike 8TB+ counterparts). Despite being 5400rpm compared to 7200rpm for bigger disks, I didn't see a difference in term of use, most likely because your average computer won't take advantage on the additional speed which is apparently more important for supporting more storage in the same volume. Since it's 5400 it's also very silent compared to bigger disks and that's welcomed when used in a desktop computer sitting next to you all day. If I have to increase my storage I will not buy bigger disk but rather add an additional 6TB. Like its predecessor I'll probably have to replace it in a couple years when there are too many S.M.A.R.T error which you should occasionally check using WD ... MoreFaster to start and stop than its 4TB predecessor and as silent as it gets (unlike 8TB+ counterparts). Despite being 5400rpm compared to 7200rpm for bigger disks, I didn't see a difference in term of use, most likely because your average computer won't take advantage on the additional speed which is apparently more important for supporting more storage in the same volume. Since it's 5400 it's also very silent compared to bigger disks and that's welcomed when used in a desktop computer sitting next to you all day. If I have to increase my storage I will not buy bigger disk but rather add an additional 6TB. Like its predecessor I'll probably have to replace it in a couple years when there are too many S.M.A.R.T error which you should occasionally check using WD "Dashboard" software. Also you should frequently backup your data to another external disk or cloud with something like FreeFileSync as with time if you're using it alone (and not in mirroring RAID or 2+ disks) you will get corrupt files without noticing and there will be no way to recover it.
I will be honest, I should really have a NAS drive for the application I am using these drives in. I have a small home PLEX media storage as well as standard file storage. I took the classic cheap home builder route and instead of putting these in a true NAS enclosure I stuffed them into my NZXT Phantom Case. I use four 4TB drives that are located in the forward bay closures. The air moving through my case is borderline absurd. Currently moves enough air to work as a desk fan. Everything was cool until I came home to an irregular hard drive noise. Disk manager said everything was online. I ran a few CMD commands and checked drive health without any errors. I shut it down so I could open the case without and inspect things without shoving my hands through powered ... MoreI will be honest, I should really have a NAS drive for the application I am using these drives in. I have a small home PLEX media storage as well as standard file storage. I took the classic cheap home builder route and instead of putting these in a true NAS enclosure I stuffed them into my NZXT Phantom Case. I use four 4TB drives that are located in the forward bay closures. The air moving through my case is borderline absurd. Currently moves enough air to work as a desk fan. Everything was cool until I came home to an irregular hard drive noise. Disk manager said everything was online. I ran a few CMD commands and checked drive health without any errors. I shut it down so I could open the case without and inspect things without shoving my hands through powered hardware and found nothing irregular. I turn it back on....poof...storage drive #3 wont spin up (not initialized, no drive data). Tried a few things to get it back online again, mostly port swapping and trying to read it with an USB to SATA adapter. Drive never came back...caput. I guess it cool to see it abused hard and make it slightly past warranty but I really should have just sucked it up and got NAS drives with vibration dampening and 5 year warranties. I do like my WD products, I just need to stop being stupid and buy the drives rated for the abuse I throw at them. After installation I maybe powered this machine down only about 10 times for maybe 2 days or more . It's a non-stop workhorse in my house. WD Blue drives, good for normal everyday PC use; not for continuous on-time and data transfer punishment. Don't make my mistake, get the right drives the first time. Buy once, cry once as they say!
Shipped without an internal box. This is not a consumer drive with the standard packaging, this is thrown into an anti-static bag before being put in a cardboard box and shipped with UPS. The bubble wrap that covers the drive isn't even fully inflated, it has no protection on the bottom half of the drive. After a few years working in a warehouse I know how packages are treated If you're unlucky enough to pick Fedex, the packages are stepped on and thrown 30 feet into the back of a truck. Without the internal box and with how small the box is I would say don't order from here if you want a working hard drive. For SSDs it probably won't matter. This is disappointing because the impression is that I will be buying a new consumer product and not something that appears ... MoreShipped without an internal box. This is not a consumer drive with the standard packaging, this is thrown into an anti-static bag before being put in a cardboard box and shipped with UPS. The bubble wrap that covers the drive isn't even fully inflated, it has no protection on the bottom half of the drive. After a few years working in a warehouse I know how packages are treated If you're unlucky enough to pick Fedex, the packages are stepped on and thrown 30 feet into the back of a truck. Without the internal box and with how small the box is I would say don't order from here if you want a working hard drive. For SSDs it probably won't matter. This is disappointing because the impression is that I will be buying a new consumer product and not something that appears to be used. I will check the SMART readout and update the review after checking to see if the drive is used. The manufacture date is for September, 3 months before now, so it appears to be new.
I have purchased 8 of these 3.5” Blue 4TB drives, two at a time, since the beginning of June this year (so over the last five months). So far, I have been exceptionally pleased with their initial health and subsequent performance. Crystal Disk Info showed each of them at 1 Power On Count, 0 Hours, so they are indeed brand new. 7 of the 8 have been used as external/offline storage, and 1 of them has been put into an active system. I know that 5 months is not a very long time to decide durability – especially since most of these are offline storage – but let me just say this: what I’ve asked the drives to do, they’ve done to my satisfaction, so I’m a happy man. And it gives me confidence recommending them to others. Another reason I’m recommending them is because they ... MoreI have purchased 8 of these 3.5” Blue 4TB drives, two at a time, since the beginning of June this year (so over the last five months). So far, I have been exceptionally pleased with their initial health and subsequent performance. Crystal Disk Info showed each of them at 1 Power On Count, 0 Hours, so they are indeed brand new. 7 of the 8 have been used as external/offline storage, and 1 of them has been put into an active system. I know that 5 months is not a very long time to decide durability – especially since most of these are offline storage – but let me just say this: what I’ve asked the drives to do, they’ve done to my satisfaction, so I’m a happy man. And it gives me confidence recommending them to others. Another reason I’m recommending them is because they are PMR drives, NOT SMR. You probably know that ‘SMR’ stands for ‘Shingled Magnetic Recording’ - which basically means that every time the drive needs to write new data, it has to rip up nearby unrelated data to perform the new write because the tracks are so narrow and squished together. Not too hard to realize this is hazardous for a number of reasons, not the least of which being the longevity of your drive. Thankfully, the 4 TB Blue drives are not SMR. (Due note: the 3.5” 2 TB & 6 TB Blue drives are SMR, so steer clear of them. So are the 2.5” 1 & 2 TB Blues. ) A word of advice to Windows users also – these drives do NOT come pre-formatted! You HAVE to go into ‘Disk Management’ and format them yourself. When you first get to ‘Disk Management’, a dialog box will pop up, asking you to “Initialize the Disk”. Be SURE to select ‘GPT’, NOT ‘MBR’! I see reviews which complain about “I formatted the disk and only got 2TB”, this will happen if you pick ‘MBR’ when you initialize the disk. As always with data, never trust anything important to just one drive. I have owned 15+ WD Blue HDDs of various sizes (excluding the 8 in my review), and I’ve been blessed with only 1 hard failure and 2 soft failures in the past 6-7 years. It gives me confidence that these 4 TB drives will exhibit the same longevity and performance as their predecessors.
I might recommend the drive to someone not needing one with high speed performance. Since the AZ drive is an SMR drive it theoretically writes slower than the RZ model. As shown by my testing this is true (about 50% slower when writing-only was getting about 62 Mbps). Admittedly, this is an extreme test-most writes will be only a couple of files and less than a gigabyte for my use on the video server. I am hoping performance will be adequate in that usage. Note that I have used many WD drives over the years and hope to keep doing so but ... SMR recording is giving me some concern. I wish WD had not switched to this method of recording on the disk-I was quite happy with the CMR disks. Unfortunately NewEgg did not have any of the RZ 4 TBs in stock and they had a sale ... MoreI might recommend the drive to someone not needing one with high speed performance. Since the AZ drive is an SMR drive it theoretically writes slower than the RZ model. As shown by my testing this is true (about 50% slower when writing-only was getting about 62 Mbps). Admittedly, this is an extreme test-most writes will be only a couple of files and less than a gigabyte for my use on the video server. I am hoping performance will be adequate in that usage. Note that I have used many WD drives over the years and hope to keep doing so but ... SMR recording is giving me some concern. I wish WD had not switched to this method of recording on the disk-I was quite happy with the CMR disks. Unfortunately NewEgg did not have any of the RZ 4 TBs in stock and they had a sale on the AZ so I gave it a shot. FWIW, I usually have given WD drives a 4 or 5 egg rating - this one I dropped a couple of eggs due to it being slower.
WD Blue 2TB (WD20EZBX) is a fast drive.7200RPM, 256MB cache, you can easily get 200+ MBps read speeds. Fast enough to be a game drive (not as fast as an ssd but your only waiting 15 to 20 seconds at most for a game to load)It is a SMR drive however, so writing does suffer a bit there. Although if your focus on read applications (like gaming), this is a totally usable drive.As i told a family member this is a undercover WD Black HDD.
HP All in one never seemed up to speed and signing on just keep getting slower. Finally old hard drive gave in and produced a blue screen warning about the drive. I had previously removed my files that I wanted to keep and installed the drive. Couldn’t have been easier. Literally 1screw. Reloaded Windows 10 pro and it is new running perfectly again. Very good price on the new drive( just built in 10/22). Thanks WD this saved a lot!
Very nice HDD for "cold storage".I bought this 8TB in Nov-22 for $120.I already have a fast pc and fast storage. I have a 1TB of arguably the fastest PCIe4x4 nand SSD, a 960GB Optane SSD, and a cold storage 3TB Seagate HDD and they were getting filled with stuff I didn't actively use and didn't want to redo or redownload. My long term backup method to optical(or M-disc) takes too long for anything but the most valuable data, and an 8TB SSD costs too much to justify.This 8TB drive will give me a lot more space to keep what I want. It also does sequential R/W in Crystaldiskmark of over 200MB/s compared to the 140MB/s of the other smaller HDDs I have and 5x as fast as my 340Mb/s cable internet download speed when the internet is perfect.My drive came straight ... MoreVery nice HDD for "cold storage".I bought this 8TB in Nov-22 for $120.I already have a fast pc and fast storage. I have a 1TB of arguably the fastest PCIe4x4 nand SSD, a 960GB Optane SSD, and a cold storage 3TB Seagate HDD and they were getting filled with stuff I didn't actively use and didn't want to redo or redownload. My long term backup method to optical(or M-disc) takes too long for anything but the most valuable data, and an 8TB SSD costs too much to justify.This 8TB drive will give me a lot more space to keep what I want. It also does sequential R/W in Crystaldiskmark of over 200MB/s compared to the 140MB/s of the other smaller HDDs I have and 5x as fast as my 340Mb/s cable internet download speed when the internet is perfect.My drive came straight from WD and was manufactured in Oct-22.And like most that buy them it ran perfectly and I expect it to last as long as the still running WD Blue 1TB in my daughter's PC that I picked up in 2011.Also it is not clicky like the old Velociraptor HDD I have in the office.It is often slow for things like games, and isn't the best choice for continuous reading and writing, but that isn't what I got it for. If I store a modded game on it and I want to play it for more than a few hours I will likely drag that folder to a faster drive. If I want to backup my phone's photos/videos the WD can hold them until I save them permanently. If I have a video project that is taking too much space, to the WD it can go.Tons of space that is fast enough for cold storage.
PLEASE BE WARNED! 4 TB does NOT mean exactly 4 TB unless you know how to measure. Western Digital makes very good hardware, but they're a bit sneaky on advertising the drive sizes. Most drive manufacturers will market a drive saying that it is a specific size when in fact the actual usable size is smaller. Basically, they use byte sizes measured in steps of 1,000 when the computer will actually read them in steps of 1024. Thus, the ACTUAL readout will be approx. 3.6 TB, NOT 4 TB. Knowing this beforehand would have saved me some trouble planning on hardware upgrades. Still, this drive does well, and it has some nice built-in features that will keep it stable for years to come. WD is an excellent hardware brand, and they include features that no other hard drive brand ... MorePLEASE BE WARNED! 4 TB does NOT mean exactly 4 TB unless you know how to measure. Western Digital makes very good hardware, but they're a bit sneaky on advertising the drive sizes. Most drive manufacturers will market a drive saying that it is a specific size when in fact the actual usable size is smaller. Basically, they use byte sizes measured in steps of 1,000 when the computer will actually read them in steps of 1024. Thus, the ACTUAL readout will be approx. 3.6 TB, NOT 4 TB. Knowing this beforehand would have saved me some trouble planning on hardware upgrades. Still, this drive does well, and it has some nice built-in features that will keep it stable for years to come. WD is an excellent hardware brand, and they include features that no other hard drive brand has, but don't be fooled by size measurements!
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 8 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
