Western Digital WD Black
WD Black 2TB (WD2003FZEX) 7200 RPM 3.5-inch SATA HDD from 2013; a capacity-focused secondary drive for game libraries and mass storage, with StableTrac on 2TB+.
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Product overview
Western Digital’s WD Black 2TB (WD2003FZEX) debuted in October 2013 as part of the refreshed FZEX-generation Black desktop HDDs that replaced the earlier FAEX models. ([tomshardware.com](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-black-sequential-read-hard-drive-advanced-format-hrc%2C24641.html?utm_source=openai)) It’s a 3.5-inch SATA 6 Gb/s, 7200‑RPM drive with a 64 MB cache; WD rates sustained host transfer around 164 MB/s on this 2TB SKU. ([documents.westerndigital.com](https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/wd/product/wd-black-hdd/data-sheet-wd-black-pc-hd-series-2879-771434.pdf?utm_source=openai))
In today’s landscape it sits in the budget tier: a capacity-focused secondary drive that exists to offer large, inexpensive storage alongside an SSD boot disk. It’s well-suited for a big game library and general mass storage, and can serve as a basic video‑editing scratch disk for sequential media. Notable for this capacity, WD includes StableTrac spindle stabilization on 2TB-and-larger models. ([documents.westerndigital.com](https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/wd/product/internal-storage/wd_black/wd-black-desktop/data-sheet-wd-black-desktop.pdf?utm_source=openai))
- game library
- mass storage
- video-editing scratch
Product highlights
- Desktop performance gaming hard drive
- Performance storage available in up to 10TB* capacities | * As used for storage capacity, 1TB = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.
- Designed for gamers, system builders, and creative professionals.
- Western Digital’s StableTrac and Dynamic Cache Technology increase reliability and optimize performance
- An industry-leading 5-year limited warranty** | ** See official Western Digital website for warranty details.
Specifications
- Capacity
- 2 TB
- Type
- HDD
- Form factor
- 3.5
- Hardware Interface
- SATA
- Data Transfer Rate
- 600 MB
- Read speed
- 164 MB/s
- Tdp
- 9 W
