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Revision as of 01:30, 29 June 2022

Western Digital Black, also formerly known as Western Digital Caviar Black and stylised as WD_BLACK since 2019, is a hard drive family created by Western Digital. Its 3.5" marketed towards high performance desktop PCs, whereas 2.5" models represent a 7,200 RPM alternative to most mobile drives. All are covered with a five-year warranty, only rivalled by the Red Pro, Gold and Ultrastar families.

History

Since 2016, most models higher than 2 TB are rebadged Ultrastar drives.

Current models

3.5"

Model Capacity Density Cache (MiB) Family Year released
WDC WD5003AZEX-xxKC3Ax 500 GB 1 TB 64 TresXLB2 2018?
WDC WD1003FZEX-xxKC3Ax 1 TB 1 TB 64 TresXLB2 2018?
WDC WD2003FZEX-xxSRLAx 2 TB 1 TB 64 Rainier 2015
WDC WD4005FZBX-xxK5WBx 4 TB 1.33 TB 256 HGST Vela 2015
WDC WD6003FZBX-xxK5WBx 6 TB 1.5 TB 256 HGST Vela 2015
WDC WD8001FZBX-xxASYAx 8 TB 1.6 TB 256 HGST Vela-AP 2020
WDC WD101FZBX-xxATAAx 10 TB 1.66 TB 256 HGST Vela-AX 2020

Former models

References

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