The 6TB WD Black SATA 6Gb/s 3.5 Internal Hard Drive is designed to enhance your PC experience across heavier computing tasks whether you are a digital artist, video editor, photographer, or gamer. Available with up to 128 MB of DRAM cache, the WD Black drive is optimized for drive performance so you can spend more time experiencing the things you love most.
The 6TB WD Black SATA 6Gb/s 3.5 Internal Hard Drive is designed to enhance your PC experience across heavier computing tasks whether you are a digital artist, video editor, photographer, or gamer. Available with up to 128 MB of DRAM cache, the WD Black drive is optimized for drive performance so you can spend more time experiencing the things you love most.
The 6TB WD Black SATA 6Gb/s 3.5 Internal Hard Drive is designed to enhance your PC experience across heavier computing tasks whether you are a digital artist, video editor, photographer, or gamer. Available with up to 128 MB of DRAM cache, the WD Black drive is optimized for drive performance so you can spend more time experiencing the things you love most.
The 6TB WD Black SATA 6Gb/s 3.5 Internal Hard Drive is designed to enhance your PC experience across heavier computing tasks whether you are a digital artist, video editor, photographer, or gamer. Available with up to 128 MB of DRAM cache, the WD Black drive is optimized for drive performance so you can spend more time experiencing the things you love most.
Last updated at 03/21/2026 15:48:15
Western Digital WD6002FZWX 6TB SATA Hard Drive
originally posted on westerndigital.com
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
originally posted on neweggbusiness.com
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.
originally posted on westerndigital.com
I was very happy when the new WD BLACK 6TB HDD was delivered to my house ahead of the promised date.But after I spent 2 hours desperately trying to initialize it or otherwise format it using various tools, including WD toolset, I became very disappointed.Some tools reported me internal HDD error and some tools do not see this drive connected to begin with. Which is basically the same. Drive came to me damaged.
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Capacity | 6 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
Western Digital WD6002FZWX 6TB SATA Hard Drive
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 was very happy when the new WD BLACK 6TB HDD was delivered to my house ahead of the promised date.But after I spent 2 hours desperately trying to initialize it or otherwise format it using various tools, including WD toolset, I became very disappointed.Some tools reported me internal HDD error and some tools do not see this drive connected to begin with. Which is basically the same. Drive came to me damaged.
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 bought 2 6TB Black 3.5 inch hard drives directly from WD on March 9 2022. The website tracking is broken, it never showed these shipping, but a week later a small, (flimsy, falling apart, partially broken open) box arrived containing my hard drives. The drives were packed with no cushioning on the top or bottom and the cheap bubble wrap surrounding the drives was popped open. This terrible packing was very disappointing, but I hoped for the best... bad sadly the drives were either defective to start with (and WD knew it which is why the shipped like this) or they were damaged during shipping. One drive would not initialize, the other started but made a loud clanking noise/defective. I do not understand why anyone would pack sensitive electronic equipment like hard ... MoreI bought 2 6TB Black 3.5 inch hard drives directly from WD on March 9 2022. The website tracking is broken, it never showed these shipping, but a week later a small, (flimsy, falling apart, partially broken open) box arrived containing my hard drives. The drives were packed with no cushioning on the top or bottom and the cheap bubble wrap surrounding the drives was popped open. This terrible packing was very disappointing, but I hoped for the best... bad sadly the drives were either defective to start with (and WD knew it which is why the shipped like this) or they were damaged during shipping. One drive would not initialize, the other started but made a loud clanking noise/defective. I do not understand why anyone would pack sensitive electronic equipment like hard drives with no protection, unless they knew they were defective to start with and hoped I would not test them, put them on a shelf for later. I contacted what turned out to be the worst customer service from a large corporation ever. I tried the phone and email and all they ever said was "give us 2-3 day to look in to this". I did that for a week... WD showed they do not care/know the drives were bad to start with forcing me to open a paypal dispute to get my money back. I was stunned when WD had 14 days to reply... but NEVER replied to the dispute. At the end of the time limit paypal closed the case and refunded my money. It took me almost a month to get my money back. WD should be ashamed. I have purchased 20-25 hard drives over time from WD, and I guess I got lucky and worked... but every relationship is good until there is an issue.... then we see what is real..... WD is not real. WD is a terrible company in every department. I am disgusted at WD and I will never do business with Western Digital again.
I bought one of these to replace boot drive in aging HP desktop. The transition went well even after I realized I could not use more than 2TB because of my ancient motherboard. After a couple of days I realized that boot up was faster and that response for virtually everything was faster- did not expect that. So I ordered another. It arrived promptly; but was dead out of box. WD gave me a return form and refunded it promptly after receipt. I bought another and put it in the case. I added another fan to increase ventilation and everything is humming along nicely. WD has always been my favorite storage source.
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 | 6 TB |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
