WD Blue WD20EARZ - 2 TB 64 MB

Having been fed up with a 2TB pencil drive not being compatible with Windows 10 (don't you just love how Microsoft tries to control your life?!!!) or not working properly with the Mac, I decided to get another Western Digital 4TB drive. They continue to be the world leader in drives. Although this is an internal drive, I didn't want to pay the more expensive price for an external drive, plus my Mac is old (2008) and the connection is USBA, so the latest external drives would likely not connect. I therefore use this drive in a docking station and it works fine. - I play music live from this during my radio shows, loading to the playout app. For me the SSDs of this capacity and greater need to come down considerably in price before I will switch over to them. I therefore use great HDDs like this and they work fine.

Bought this for a computer upgrade. Nice amount of storage at a good price and it's a nice quiet hard drive.

I have bought a few Western Digital drives over the years, and never had any problems with any of them. This time I purchased 3 of the Western Digital Blue 6TB drives. Two are working fine, just as you would expect, but the other failed within 10 minutes of installation! I guess its just the luck of the draw! In general all my other WD drives have lasted for years, in fact I have a Western Digital My Book Live 3TB NAS that is still running after 9 years (24x7). The failed drive has been returned and refund issued without any questions, so I'll be ordering a replacement.

I now have more than 10 of these 6tb drives. Western Digital have never let me down. I used to buy 1tb until the price point of the 3tb and 6tb came down.

Upon acquiring a 4TB WD hard drive, I initially found its performance to be quite satisfactory, albeit accompanied by a noticeable level of operational noise. However, as the drive's capacity began to approach the 1.8TB threshold, I was confronted with an alarming development: the drive would inexplicably freeze for durations ranging from 10 to 20 seconds during read/write operations within the Windows 11 environment, with the Task Manager indicating a distressing 100% usage. Despite the absence of any glaring faults reported by CrystalDiskInfo and a similar lack of errors detected by Windows 11's scanning utility, the drive's tendency to freeze remained an unsettling and persistent issue. Moreover, this phenomenon appeared to be confined solely to the WD drive, with other hard disks and their associated files and applications mercifully spared from these bouts of unresponsiveness. It is worth noting that the drive's temperature hovered around a relatively mild 31 degrees Celsius throughout these episodes. In light of these vexing experiences, I must, in good conscience, caution prospective buyers against investing in this particular hard drive. As for myself, I had initially sought to replace a damaged 4TB Seagate Barracuda with this WD model; however, I now find myself inclined to eschew traditional hard disks in favor of the more reliable and efficient solid-state drives for my future storage needs.

If you value quiet go for the slower models Althea are way easier to deal with but if you are like me and only use these for storage or big games they only spin up now and then anyway :)

These drives provide excellent storage capacity in my Drobo NAS and are very quiet for use in the open office space (older retired drives were very noisy). Drobo reported that 2 of the 3 drives I purchased were "bad" when trying to add them to an operational array, but doing an 'initialize' on the array (which wiped it) got them working - then restored from backup.

Trusted name at a good price

Dependable Storage Workhorse That’s Perfect for Everyday Use The Western Digital 6TB WD Blue drive has been a quiet, steady performer in my desktop setup. I use it mainly for bulk storage—photos, documents, and archived project files—and it’s proven reliable and whisper-quiet. Installation is plug-and-play; my system recognized it instantly via SATA without the need for any driver setup. Using the free Acronis cloning software from WD made transferring files from my older 2TB drive a breeze. The 5400 RPM speed isn’t blazing fast compared to SSDs or 7200 RPM drives, but it’s perfectly adequate for everyday computing and backup purposes. I’ve tested read/write speeds hovering around 150 MB/s on large files, which is consistent with its specs. It runs cool and draws very little power, ideal for systems that stay on 24/7. Western Digital’s Blue line has always been their “reliable daily driver,” and this 6TB version fits that profile well. Build quality feels solid, and there’s minimal vibration once mounted. Over several years of using WD drives in both PCs and external enclosures, I’ve found them to age gracefully with low failure rates—as long as they’re used for storage or light media work rather than constant heavy writes. A few tips: format the drive as GPT to use the full 6TB capacity, and remember this model is best suited for file storage, backups, or media—not high-speed gaming or RAID arrays (WD Black or Red drives are better for that). Bottom line: A trustworthy, quiet, and efficient hard drive for expanding desktop storage or creating large backups. It’s not the fastest, but it’s built to last and does its job without fuss.

壊れたHDを交換するために購入しました。早い対応と丁寧な梱包で、申し分ありません。新しいHDもとても静穏です。

Şimdilik 4 yıldız verdim çünkü dün kullanma başladım. Taktım çalıştırdım çalışıyor sadece bunu söyleyebilirim şimdilik xd. Ama fiyatına göre 4TB boyut çok iyi, tavsiye ederim TR den al alcak kardeşlerime xd.

Sono più di 10 anni che utilizzo prodotti Western Digital, in particolare la linea Blue che è dedicata ai PC fissi e all-in-one. Ho scelto di cambiare il mio vecchio HD con un più capiente sempre della stella linea poiché li ritengo prodotti performanti, capienti e soprattutto affidabili. Il prodotto è arrivato avvolto da una pellicola in pluriball, all'interno di una scatola ben imballata, quindi il rischio che arrivi danneggiato o che prenda colpi accidentali durante il trasporto è davvero basso. Per la prima configurazione i passaggi sono pochi e semplici, basta collegarlo al PC tramite il cavo SATA (non fornito) e formattarlo direttamente dal programma di gestione dischi, di cui ogni sistema operativo è dotato. Il modello che ho acquistato è il WD40EZAZ che ha come caratteristiche: - Capacità: 4 TB - Interfaccia: SATA 6 Gb/s - Formato: 3.5 pollici - Dimensioni della cache: 256 MB - Velocità disco: 5400 rpm - Dimensioni (L x W x H): 147mm x 101.6mm x 26.1mm 🟢PRO: - Ottime prestazioni considerando che ha dischi meccanici da 5400 rpm - Silenzioso - Affidabile 🔴CONTRO: - Niente da segnalare

Livraison rapide HDD de qualité bon rapport qualité / Prix La qualité est au rendez-vous (comme toujours avec cette marque) Les débits semblent très correct Je recommande