WD Blue 3.5-inch HDD Spec and Price in the United States
WD's Blue line is the value 3.5-inch drive: the 1TB SKU spins at 7200rpm with a 64MB cache while the larger capacities drop to 5400rpm with a 256MB cache to trade throughput for capacity and quieter operation, per the WD product brief. The 2-6TB SKUs tracked here (WD*EZAZ) use device-managed SMR — WD sells CMR twins (WD*EZAX) at the same capacities — so for sustained random writes a CMR drive is the safer pick. It carries a two-year warranty and is the default bulk-storage upgrade for desktop builds that just need space.
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- 4TB
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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
- 2 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
- Costs less than an equivalent solid-state drive while offering high desktop capacity.
- Delivered excellent real-world media-centre performance, ahead of the competing drive.
Commonly criticised
- Synthetic benchmark results were mixed and generally weaker than the direct competitor.
- Trailed in the read-intensive gaming trace.
Sources behind this summary
Sources
Every spec above was pulled from one of these — a field a source didn't state was left off rather than estimated.