Specification Sheet

WD Black
™
PC Hard Drives
WD Black performance storage is designed to enhance
your PC experience across heavier computing tasks
whether you are a digital artist, video editor, photog-
rapher, or gamer. Available with up to 128MB of DRAM
cache on higher capacity models, the WD Black drive
is optimized for drive performance so you can spend
more time experiencing the things you love most.
INTERFACE
SATA 6 Gb/s
FORM FACTOR
3.5-inch
PERFORMANCE CLASS
7200-RPM Class
CAPACITIES
500GB to 6TB
MODEL NUMBERS
WD6002FZWX
WD6001FZWX
WD2003FZEX
WD1003FZEX
WD5001FZWX WD5003AZEX
WD4004FZWX
WD3003FZEX
Product Features
Inspiring performance and
capacity
WD Black™ performance storage is
designed to enhance your PC experience
across heavier computing tasks whether
you are a digital artist, video editor,
photographer, or gamer. Available with
an impressive 128MB of DRAM cache on
higher capacity models, the WD Black PC
drive is optimized for drive performance
so you can spend more time experiencing
the things you love most. Enhance your
PC’s performance even further when you
combine a WD Black drive with an SSD for
a dual drive configuration, allowing you
to benefit from the additional caching of
your operating system onto the SSD for
increased performance. All together, the
WD Black drive gives you the hard drive
performance, capacity and an industry
leading 5-year limited warranty for an
inspiring three-in-one storage solution.
For Creative Professionals
When it comes to storing your creativity
and entire digital portfolio, look no further
than WD Black performance storage for
your best solution. Use the WD Black drive
for storing your large multimedia files of
photos, videos, games or applications and
programs because with a WD Black drive,
you get the best combination of speed,
capacity and large cache sizes.
For Gamers
The WD Black drive is the perfect storage
solution for your gaming machine by
offering large capacities to store your
game’s downloadable content (DLC),
large cache sizes, and it is the perfect
compliment for maximum system
performance when combined with an
SSD. The WD Black drive also includes
StableTrac
™
Technology (2TB and larger
models) for more accurate data tracking
and help to reduce any impact due to
vibrations from additional gaming hardware.
The WD Black drive also offers a 5-year
limited warranty to match or beat your
other gaming hardware warranties.
Increased Reliability
The WD Black drive is equipped with
StableTrac Technology (2TB and larger
models) by securing the motor shaft inside
to increase reliability and help reduce
impact due to system-induced vibrations
from other components. By 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.
Increased DRAM cache
The WD Black drive delivers high-speed
transfer speeds and read rates of your files
with impressive cache sizes of up to 128MB
of DRAM on our high capacity models.
WD’s Dynamic Cache Technology improves
caching algorithms in real time to allocate
and optimize cache between reads and
writes. This movement of cache for read
data helps to reduce congestion and
increase overall performance.
Applications
 Power computing applications such as video and photo editing, and maxed out gaming computers.
 Desktop / Consumer RAID Environments – WD Black PC Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications (RAID 0 and RAID 1).*
* Business Critical RAID Environments – WD Black PC Hard Drives are not recommended for and are not warranted for use in RAID environments utilizing Enterprise HBAs and/or expanders and
in multi-bay chassis as they are not designed for, nor tested in, these specific types of RAID applications. For all Business Critical RAID applications, please consider WD’s Enterprise Hard Drives
that are specifically designed with RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER), are tested extensively in 24×7 RAID applications, and include features for Enterprise-type applications.