Western digital WD BLACK 8TB

Brand: Western digital
Model: WD BLACK 8TB

$527–$582estimated range · from catalog price Jun 22, 2026

WD_BLACK 8TB (WD8002FZWX) 7200‑RPM 3.5-inch SATA HDD for game libraries and mass storage, launched in 2022 with 5‑year warranty and 128MB cache.

Storage performance rankTop 63% of storage drives

TierBudget?

ReleasedMar 2022

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Capacity8 TB

TypeHDD

InterfaceSATA

Read speed238 MB/s

Form factor3.5

GixCore Editorial

Product overview

Western Digital’s WD_BLACK 3.5-inch Gaming HDD family includes the 8TB WD8002FZWX, seen in retail by March 28, 2022. It’s a 3.5-inch SATA 6 Gb/s, 7200‑RPM HDD with a 128 MB cache; sustained transfers are around 238 MB/s for this model and class.

Positioning: budget tier among storage—built to deliver lots of capacity at far lower cost than SSDs. It exists to hold large game libraries and media without paying NVMe prices. Best used as a secondary drive for a game library, mass storage, and budget upgrades; acceptable for light video‑editing scratch, but not as a boot drive. Notable: 5‑year limited warranty and WD features like StableTrac and Dynamic Cache. Not discontinued as of today.

Best for

game library
mass storage
budget upgrade
video-editing scratch

Official product specifications

Specifications

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Capacity8 TB