WD Black 1TB Review

[Anthony10]

I am making this review because I personally highly do not recommend buying one of these, I have mine mounted with rubber grommets (or whatever you call 'em) and it is the loudest component in my build, I can easily pick it out of my other fans. If you are not silence oriented and you don't care, then this is a pretty good performing drive, here is a crystaldiskmark test with it.

 

NOTE: There are HDD silencing kits that I believe would help a lot with this.

 

 

Hard drives I can recommend instead of it:

WD Red, Seagate Barracuda

[Shd0w2]

BARRACUDA <3

[SJBijzitter]

Haha yeah I can hear mine too but since I've got my audio quite loud most of the times it doesn't bother me the slighest

[Commander_Z]

I've got one of these in my rig, no issue at all

[ericlee30]

 I personally highly do not recommend buying one of these, I have mine mounted with rubber grommets (or whatever you call 'em) and it is the loudest component in my build, I can easily pick it out of my other fans.

I hate to say this bro , but I completely disagree with you, I have 6 2TB black drives in my main rig and they are pretty much silent. I have every fan in my rig at 7V, they are dead silent.

 

[flibberdipper]

I hate my WD Blue. Sounds like my dad's 10 or so year old Barracuda 7200.7's (or 10's, forgot which).

[LorelynF]

I never had any issue with my WDC Black HDD so you probably received a defective unit.

[Paralectic]

I hate to say this bro , but I completely disagree with you, I have 6 2TB black drives in my main rig and they are pretty much silent. I have every fan in my rig at 7V, they are dead silent.

 

 

Dem sexy sleeves

[Scia]

Using a 1TB Black for games that don't benefit from my dedicated games SSD in terms of loading times or games that I don't play frequently. It's a nice drive, but quiet is something else.

[SuperShires]

My WD Black doesn't make a sound..

[Coollok100]

My WD Black does make quite a bit of noise, yes, but it's not unbearable. It does get quite loud when it's reading or writing large amounts of data though.

[Faa]

Honestly WD just fails with 7200 rpm drives, even with a single 1TB platter such as the WD10EZEX. Theyre twice as louder than a WD10EZRX (green drive) and theyre not performing any better.

Id suggest comparing the benchmark & acoustic results through hardware.info. I returned the WD10EZEX the first day was noisy as fuck for a WD10EZRX that was very quiet in the beginning and now it's like a lawn mower. I'm done with hard drives tbh, getting ssd's as storage instead.

[-rascal-]

I dunno, I've got a WD Caviar Black 1TB in my main rig as general storage and another on in my brother's PC as the main OS drive, and I don't really notice them in terms of operating noise...

The particular models I have are the WD1002FAEX, though. I don't know how all the different versions / models compare.