WD Black HDD Spec and Price in Canada
WD Black is the desktop performance hard drive: 7200rpm mechanics, up to 256MB of cache on the 4TB and 6TB SKUs, and a five-year warranty — WD's longest on a consumer desktop drive, per the data sheet. It holds a two-platter design for lower latency than the Blue at the same capacity, but a 7200rpm HDD is still a 7200rpm HDD: the honest use case is bulk storage with heavy reads (game libraries, media) rather than anything a 2TB NVMe would do better. You are paying for the warranty and the sustained-transfer rating.
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- 4TB
- 6TB
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Specifications
- Capacity
- 1TB
- Interface
- SATA
- Sequential read
- 150 MB/s
- Sequential write
- 150 MB/s
- Rotation speed
- 7200 RPM
- Form factor
- 3.5-inch
- Cache
- 64 MB
- Warranty
- 5 years
Capacities
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What owners and reviewers say
Summarised from 1 source(s), reviewed September 13, 2026. A source is counted only where it names this model exactly. How we track prices
Commonly praised
- Topped most synthetic benchmarks by a clear margin, with a large capacity increase over the previous generation.
- A good blend of capacity, price and performance, under a five-year limited warranty.
Commonly criticised
- Ranked below a smaller sibling in a few workloads, with the worst peak latency of the compared drives.
- Trailed hybrid drives in real-world traces, with higher power draw and acoustics than slower drives.
Sources behind this summary
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Every spec above was pulled from one of these — a field a source didn't state was left off rather than estimated.