Bought it for data security and reliability. Despite bad sectors, I was able to recover all my data.
This is a very noisy drive right out of the box - first time I heard one so loud, I thought it was defective! Bad sector issues. Not as quick as the Blue.
Drive starting to fail after 4 years into it's 5 year warranty. Too many bad sectors, though I was able to recover the most important things. Despite extreme slow performance and many bad sectors, it did not prevent me from backing up my data.
2022-05-26
Western Digital _ Everyone else For HDD
Reviewed by: Saum
Quick, never failed once for the over 5 years ive had this drive, I even got 2 more black and 2 gold drives.
The only weakness is people who don't know how to use it and say its a bad drive, in reality its a really good drive.
Its not noisy, its not slow, however if you are expecting SSD performance from this drive, you didn't read the specs before making the purchase. This is a performance storing drive, but better served for gamers IMO, not exclusively.
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