Western digital WD BLACK 8TB
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.
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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.
- game library
- mass storage
- budget upgrade
- 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
- 8 TB
- Type
- HDD
- Form factor
- 3.5
- Hardware Interface
- SATA
- Data Transfer Rate
- 600 MB
- Read speed
- 238 MB/s
- Tdp
- 8 W
