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WD Black
Desktop Hard Drives
Our all new next-generation WD Black drives deliver improved
performance that heightens the experience of your PC
playground. These performance drives offer enhanced
features over the previous generation to maximize system
performance, allowing you to have more fun creating while
spending less time waiting.
INTERFACE
SATA 6 Gb/s
MODEL NUMBERS
WD4003FZEX WD1003FZEX
WD4001FAEX WD1002FAEX
WD3003FZEX WD5003AZEX
WD3001FAEX
WD2003FZEX
Product Features
Inspiring performance and
capacity
For the creators, the gamers and
those that demand the best, we
delivered the next generation of hard
drives to enlarge your PC playground.
The latest WD Black desktop hard
drives offer enhanced features that
maximize system performance,
allowing you to spend more time
doing what you love most and less
time waiting. WD Black is designed
to intensify your PC experience with
generous capacity and incredible
performance, pushing the boundaries
of personalization.
High resolution for a high
denition world
Underlying its athletic stance of
performance and capacity, WD Black
features a new High Resolution
Controller (HRC) with an improved
architectural design, resulting in
increased data precision across the
hard drive. This translates to superior
responsiveness evolving your high
denition world to the next level.
FORM FACTOR
3.5-inch
Smarter than the average
drive
Performance and workstation PCs
equipped with high-end components
often emit vibrations and acoustics
that can reduce the precision and
performance of your hard drive. Even
the best chassis on the market can
not always compensate against this.
The new generation of WD Black
hard drives feature Vibration Control
Technology (VCT) which allows the
disks inside the drive to adapt to
any mounting problems or vibration
conditions that are inside your case,
resulting in increased data accuracy,
performance and reliability over time.
Put simply, this means you can game
harder, faster and longer.
Action meets stable traction
In addition to Vibration Control
Technology (VCT), WD Black is
also equipped with StableTrac™
Technology, which secures the motor
shaft inside the drive at both ends
to help reduce additional systeminduced vibrations. StableTrac
condently stabilizes the platters
inside, resulting in more accurate
tracking in a particular sector during
read and write operations and
delivers increased performance.
(2 TB models and above)
ROTATIONAL SPEED
7200 RPM
Protecting your moments
The worst thing that can happen
during a rendering process is losing
data due to power uctuation or
power failure. The new generation
of WD Black hard drives is
equipped with Corruption Protection
Technology (CPT), which helps
to protect and limit the potential
problem of data loss during power
failure or power loss to the hard
drive. Overall, Corruption Protection
Technology can save you time and
money on your project.
Efcient dual processing
When it comes to processing power,
more is always better. WD Black
features a dual core processor that
offers twice the processing power to
maximize drive performance. Adding
additional value, WD’s Dynamic
Cache Technology increases
performance by improving caching
algorithms in real time and optimizing
the cache allocation between reads
and writes. This results in the drive
automatically allocating more cache
for read data, which reduces data
congestion and increases overall
performance.
CAPACITIES
500 GB to 4 TB
Industry-leading 5-year
limited warranty
Our engineers have a relentless
dedication to keeping your data
safe. This passion is reected in
the industry-leading 5-year limited
warranty we stand behind on all
WD Black drives. The evidence for
our success lies in our capability to
continually deliver next-generation
technologies and in our ability to
stand behind these products with
industry-leading 5-year limited
warranty coverage. WD Black is
tested to a higher standard than
conventional hard drives with more
strenuous and aggressive testing
over a longer period of time. This is
our story of innovation, renement
and passion for performance hard
drives.
Applications
Power computing applications such as video and photo editing, and maxed out gaming computers.
WD Black hard drives are tested and recommended for use in PCs and high-performance workstations. Desktop drives are not recommended for use in RAID
environments. Please consider using WD Red™ hard drives for home and small ofce 1-5 bay NAS systems and WD enterprise hard drives for rackmount and
NAS systems with more than 5 bays.*
* WD hard drives are designed and tested for use in specic applications and environments. This ensures that your hard drive is compatible with and functions properly in your
application. Our hard drives are warranted against defects in materials and workmanship in the system for which they were designed. Use in systems other than for what the hard
drive was designed could result in compatibility problems that affect proper function, unrelated to material and/or workmanship defects. For best results, be sure to select the
appropriate product for your application by consulting our product spec sheets on our website at www.wd.com or by calling our customer support line where we would be happy to
help you through the selection process.
WD Black
™
Specications 4 TB 4 TB 3 TB 3 TB
Model number
Interface SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s SATA 6 Gb/s
Formatted capacity
1
2
Form factor 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch 3.5-inch
Advanced Format (AF) Yes No Ye s No
RoHS compliant
3
Performance
Data transfer rate (max)
Buffer to host
Host to/from drive (sustained)
Cache (MB) 64 64 64 64
Rotational speed (RPM) 7200 7200 7200 7200
Reliability/Data Integrity
Load/unload cycles
Non-recoverable read errors per bits
read
Limited warranty (years)
4
5
Power Management
Average power requirements (W)
Read/Write
Idle
Standby/Sleep
Environmental Specications
Temperature (°C)
Operating
Non-operating
Shock (Gs)
Operating (2 ms, write)
Operating (2 ms, read)
Non-operating (2 ms)
Acoustics (dBA)
Idle
Seek (average)
7
Physical Dimensions
Height (in./mm, max) 1.028/25.4 1.028/25.4 1.028/25.4 1.028/25.4
Length (in./mm, max) 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147
Width (in./mm, ± .01 in.) 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6
Weight (lb./kg, ± 10%) 1.50/0.68 1.50/0.68 1.40/0.64 1.40/0.64
WD4003FZEX WD4001FAEX WD3003FZEX WD3001FAEX
4 TB 4 TB 3 TB 3 TB
Yes Yes Yes Yes
6 Gb/s
171 MB/s
6 Gb/s
154 MB/s
6 Gb/s
168 MB/s
6 Gb/s
154 MB/s
300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000
<1 in 1014 <1 in 1014 <1 in 1014 <1 in 1014
5 5 5 5
6
9.5
8.1
1.3
5 to 55
-40 to 70
30
65
300
29
34
9.5
8.1
1.3
5 to 55
-40 to 70
30
65
300
29
34
9.5
8.1
1.3
5 to 55
-40 to 70
30
65
300
29
34
9.5
8.1
1.3
5 to 55
-40 to 70
30
65
300
29
34
1
Not all products may be available in all regions of the world.
2
As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer
rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second. Effective maximum SATA 3 Gb/s transfer rate calculated according to the Serial ATA specication published by the SATA-IO organization as of the date of this specication
sheet. Visit www.sata-io.org for details.
3
WD hard drive products manufactured and sold worldwide after June 8, 2011, meet or exceed Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance requirements as mandated by the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU.
4
Maximum burst rate running the Mode 5 Ultra ATA transfer mode.
5
Controlled unload at ambient condition.
6
The term of the limited warranty may vary by region. Visit support.wd.com/warranty for details.
7
No non-recoverable errors during operating tests or after non-operating tests.
8
Sound power level.
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