Customer Ratings & Reviews

this is my 2nd blue WD purchased ,, since bestbuy put them on sale again ,, i wonder if these hdd are will be phased out in favor of ssd is the reason .. so getting some extra on sale seems logical to me .. also,, i been using the free acronis backup software making backups .. finally without having to buy it .. i used acronis to create a backups on the 1st blue ..and then created a bootable clone on the 2nd blue .. i also worked on creating a bootable clone on a usb WD passport drive too but not tested a boot with it yet .. however when the blue booted ,,, it took about 4 to 5 minutes where the motherboard ssd boots takes just a minute .. another thing which i liked was the boot ssd was 2TB and had 2 partitions of 1TB ,, and when the blue 4TB bootable was created ,, the acronis created 2 partitions of 2TB each .. .which make me even more happier .. my eventual plan is to use the bootable blue to now make a bootable 4TB ssd ,, and keep the 2TB ssd and boot blue as backup out of the desktop ..

I use this Hard drive is a NAS setup and so far I have no complaints other than it’s a 5.4K instead of a 7.2kRPM drive but that isn’t a terrible thing the life on this baby will be long! The speeds of transfer are really good especially if you combine multiple drives into a raid 0 and you’ll have no issues whatsoever besides no redundancy

I have so many of these WD drives. They always come in handle for backups or installing in my pcs. You can never have enough storage space. I convert all my Blurays and Dvds to computer files, so these hard drives are very necessary for backups and extra storage space. Sorry you are not able to see the drive, but I already had it install before this comment. I recommend these drives though. Been using them over 15 years.

I have purchased six of these drives for storage of pictures and videos and use them extensively. I have never experienced a failure and have developed confidence in them for reliability and value.

Getting both read and write speed above 200 MB/s which is in ideal situvation where disk is completly empty. But still i beleive it will manage 180 MB/s when its half or almost full.Dint hear and sound or noise yet although my usage is very less to keep only some files .

I paid $90. I have had good luck with WD hard drives for very many years. They have provided me with dependable service. I replaced a WD 4TB that had over 63,000 power-on hours. I use the drive for the storage of videos and music. It runs cool and I am happy.

Much needed storage for my pc and is really fast and snappy

Usually Getting around to buying hard drives is quite the unreaosnable gamble as its been inconsitent with the model numbers. Fortunately I got exactly what I was after: a 4TB CMR hard drive that ends with “EZAX”. As for the general review, its a simple plug-n-play setup for devices that can hold 3.5” hard drives. Included in the box are 4 mounting screws, as wall as general product documantion and warranty information.

Great hard drive that works very well with storage as well as gaming.

I wanted a separate drive (with lots of space) for directly recording and storing Nvidia shareplay game clips/highlights. I originally wanted the WD red version but it wasn't in stock. I settled for this and it has been perfect so far for my use case. It has no problem continuously recording a 10 minute loop of 1080p 60FPS gameplay footage at a 50k bitrate. And both of my 1TB SSD's are no longer almost full (which I learned is bad and slows them down) Don't forget to download the WD Dashboard app. It's not required but it's still pretty cool to have.

This drive is listed as a WDBH2D0040HNC-NRSN, but it's actually a WD40EZRZ. I believe the WDBH2D0040HNC-NRSN is an earlier model. This listing is a lower price than the listed WDBH2D0040HNC-NRSN, so that's a good thing. This is a 5400 RPM CMR drive. It is about twice as fast as the "green" WD20EADS 2TB it replaced. That drive hasn't failed, not bad for a 10 year old and well used hard drive.

The first one I bought was dead on arrival, but the second one is still going over a year later.

Got cheesed with an SMR drive instead of a CMR drive like a lot of the other reviewers got. This ones not as good as an CMR drive, but I have a SMR drive from Seagate that is terrible when updating games from my steam library, Its a shame I got the 256mb cache (SMR) drive when the 64mb (CRM) drive is what was advertised, but still a good drive for the price

Upon switching from my old Hard drive that was half a decade old to this one my computer sped up 2x and made my gaming life 10x better.

Great Price for hard drive, was looking for more storage.

Great Hard Drive I needed one for to store all my pictures, music, and more

Amazing product, works perfectly for my new gaming pc!

So worth the price and don't have to worry about running out of memory on your PS4 its worth the upgrade

good spinning disc for long term storage, does what it says

Work great. I like shopping at Best Buy. I would recommend this store and look forward to the renovations taking place