- General Information
- Manufacturer
- Western Digital Corporation
- Manufacturer Website Address
- http://www.wdc.com
- Brand Name
- WD
- Product Line
- Black
- Product Type
- Hard Drive
WD_BLACK™ 3.5-Inch Gaming Hard Drive | Gaming Performance And Capacity
WD_BLACK™ is purpose-built to enhance your PC gaming experience. Available with an impressive 256 MiB of DRAM cache on higher capacity models, the WD_BLACK HDD is performance-optimized so you can spend more time gaming and less time loading. Combine a WD_BLACK HDD with a WD_BLACK SSD for a dual-drive configuration that maximizes your gaming experience while letting you keep more of your favorite games. The WD_BLACK HDD gives you fast hard drive speeds, high capacity, and an industryleading 5-year limited warranty2 for an inspiring game storage solution.
Drive Your Game
The WD_BLACK™ HDD is the perfect storage solution for your gaming rig, offering large cache sizes plus large capacities to store your favorite titles and their downloadable content (DLC). Paired with an SSD, the powerful drive delivers exceptional system performance and capacity.
Store More, Play More
With capacities up to 10TB , WD_BLACK™ Gaming Hard Drives let you download the latest AAA titles while also keeping your ever-growing catalog of classics and favorites ready to play. Don't compromise on your game collection. Store more and game more with WD_BLACK.
Increased Reliability
The WD_BLACK™ Gaming Hard Drive is equipped with StableTrac™ Technology (2TB and larger models). This secures the motor shaft inside of the hard drive to increase reliability and help reduce impact due to system-induced vibrations from other components such as additional gaming hardware. Stabilizing the platters inside the WD_BLACK drive results in more accurate tracking in a particular sector during read and write operations, optimizing performance and reliability.
An Industry-Leading Warranty
Compared to standard hard drives, our WD_BLACK™ Gaming Hard Drives pass more strenuous and aggressive internal testing over a longer period of time which is why the WD_BLACK drive is backed by an industry-leading 5-year limited warranty.
- Warranty
- Limited Warranty
- 5 Year
- Technical Information
- Storage Capacity
- 8 TB
- Recording Technology
- Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR)
- Drive Performance
- Spindle Speed (rpm)
- 7200
- Buffer
- 128 MB
- Network & Communication
- Wireless LAN
- No
- Interfaces/Ports
- Drive Interface
- SATA
- Drive Interface Standard
- SATA/600
- Physical Characteristics
- Drive Type
- Internal
- Form Factor
- 3.5"
- Drive Carrier
- Yes
- Drive Carrier Width
- 3.5"
- Height
- 1"
- Width
- 4"
- Length
- 5.8"
- Weight (Approximate)
- 1.65 lb
- Miscellaneous
- Package Contents
- Gaming Hard Drive
- Acronis True Image WD Edition Software
- Quick Install Guide
- Device Supported
- Desktop PC
- MAC
- Environmentally Friendly
- Yes
- Environmental Compliance
- Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)