Western Digital WD Black Storage

Western Digital WD Black

Brand
Western Digital
Model
WD Black
$266–$294estimated range · from catalog price Sep 1, 2026

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+.

Storage performance rankTop 63% of storage drives
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Released2013
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Capacity2 TB
TypeHDD
InterfaceSATA
Read speed164 MB/s
Form factor3.5
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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. 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.Sourcetomshardware.comSourcedocuments.westerndigital.com

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.Sourcedocuments.westerndigital.com

Best for
  • game library
  • mass storage
  • video-editing scratch
Official product specifications

Specifications

At a glance iEach dot represents a catalog model. Farther right means a higher measured value, not necessarily a better fit.Measured against the storage drives catalog
Current modelCatalog models
Capacity2 TB
Higher than 36% of storage drives
Read speed164 MB/s
Higher than 4% of storage drives
Capacity
2 TB
Type
HDD
Form factor
3.5
Hardware Interface
SATA III 6 Gb/s
Data Transfer Rate
600 MB
Interface
SATA
Read speed
164 MB/s
Tdp
9 W
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