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product_id: 48972010
title: "WD 1 TB Performance Hard Drive - Black"
brand: "western digital"
price: "AED 615"
currency: AED
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reviews_count: 10
category: "Western Digital"
url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/48972010-wd-1-tb-performance-hard-drive-black
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# 7200 RPM high-speed spin Corruption Protection Tech 5-year warranty peace-of-mind WD 1 TB Performance Hard Drive - Black

**Brand:** western digital
**Price:** AED 615
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> ⚡ Power your passion with WD Black — where speed meets reliability.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** WD 1 TB Performance Hard Drive - Black by western digital
- **How much does it cost?** AED 615 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/48972010-wd-1-tb-performance-hard-drive-black)

## Best For

- western digital enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted western digital brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Massive 1TB Capacity:** Store your entire creative portfolio, game library, and critical files without compromise.
- • **Advanced Data Integrity:** Corruption Protection Technology safeguards your work against unexpected power failures.
- • **Trusted 5-Year Warranty:** Confidence backed by Western Digital’s longest warranty, ensuring your investment is protected.
- • **Blazing Fast 7200 RPM Spin:** Experience lightning-quick load times and seamless multitasking for gaming and creative workflows.
- • **Vibration Control Technology:** Engineered for stability and durability, reducing noise and extending drive lifespan.

## Overview

The WD 1TB Performance Hard Drive Black series is designed for creative professionals and gamers demanding top-tier speed and reliability. Featuring a 7200 RPM spin rate, Vibration Control Technology, and Corruption Protection, it delivers fast, stable performance with a generous 1TB capacity. Backed by a 5-year warranty, this drive ensures your data stays safe while powering intensive tasks like photo editing, gaming, and design.

## Description

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Review: High performance at a competitive price point - This is a very good drive indeed, and is the best performing of the regular WD drive line. The 'Blue' series drives are the standard good drives for everyday use. (These are the only ones that come in both SATA 6 Gb/s and the older PATA 100 MB/s connection styles; all others are only SATA). The max. capacity for these is 1 TB. The 'Green' drives are focused on low energy consumption and therefore have lowest spin ratings (making them slower) but keep very cool & quiet. These go all the way up to 6 TB. The 'Purple' are designed for low spin use with ATA streaming & AllFrame technology designed with surveillance video footage recording in mind. These go up to 4 TB. The 'Red' series drives are designed for RAID array systems. These go all the way up to 6 TB. The 'Black' series are designed for the best performance for gamers and graphic artists with fast spin-rates, Vibration Control Technology (VCT) and Corruption Protection Technology (CPT) to prevent data loss in the case of power failure to the unit. These go up to 4 TB. The only drive that WD make faster and better than the Black series is the VelociRapter series with the fastest spin cycles and it's own custom vibration and cooling bracket. These are more triple the price on a GB-by-GB cost ratio. See Western Digital Velociraptor - 1TB Desktop SATA Hard Drive - OEM These "Black" drives are really the best of the regular series for high performance computing. I have mine installed as a bootable Windows OS main HDD, and it outperforms the previous drive, even though it was only a 200 GB drive. You'd think for so little space, verses a 1 TB drive, that the 200 GB drive would be faster as there's so much less space to have to scan. But the WD Black is as good with five times the capacity. It's very quiet and performs quickly with no read/write errors upon diagnostic scan tests. The packaging was satisfactory (not an original fancy box). It was in an anti-static bag, with plastic spacers on each end, that was in turn in a cardboard box that was then placed in another cardboard box with filler. One little tip: If your are replacing an old HDD that was MBR format, and intend to clone it to this drive, then format this new drive to MBR as well, not GPT (even though the latter is a better system) to prevent problems in the cloning. The 5 year warranty is a real bonus as well. Just go to the WD website and register the drive. Such a long warranty (the longest WD offer for a product; others being 2 or 3 years only) shows that they've really put a lot into making these units in a high quality manner giving peace-of-mind for your data. I would recommend these drives to anyone looking for the best drive, that's affordable, for high performance computing.
Review: Great gaming drive with Western Digital's usual reliability - These drives receive almost universally positive reviews, and my experience is no different. I'm using this as a games drive and it has given me many hours of happy gaming with zero issues. Installation is simple, using the standard 4 screw arrangement or whatever HDD mounting brackets may exist in your case. Plug in the SATA cable and it's ready to go. This replaced an old 5400rpm drive, and there is a noticeable performance improvement even though I have it connected to a SATA2 motherboard and can't experience the drive at full transfer speed (I'll upgrade eventually). Western Digital have a great reputation for reliability and a decent warranty so I'm expecting this drive to last for many years. I'll probably buy a couple more at some point, maybe for a RAID setup, or perhaps just to increase overall capacity.

## Features

- Performance hard drives: Maximum performance for power computing
- Target audience: Creative enthusiasts and gamers
- Ideal for: Editing photos, playing games, designing creative artwork or other instances where performance is a necessity
- Best WD PC hard drive performance

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B00FJRS6FU |
| Best Sellers Rank | 50,991 in Computers & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories ) 183 in Internal Hard Drives |
| Department | Default Category |
| Guaranteed software updates until | unknown |
| Item model number | WD1003FZEX-SPK3CA0 |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | Western Digital |
| Product Dimensions | 14.73 x 10.16 x 2.54 cm; 60 g |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Western Digital
- **Colour:** Black
- **Compatible devices:** Desktop, Laptop, Gaming Console
- **Connectivity technology:** SATA
- **Digital storage capacity:** 1 TB
- **Hard disk description:** Mechanical Hard Disk
- **Hard disk form factor:** 3.5 Inches
- **Hard disk interface:** Serial ATA-600
- **Installation type:** Internal Hard Drive
- **Special feature:** Operating temperature range:0 - 60 °C

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ High performance at a competitive price point
*by M***N on 21 October 2014*

This is a very good drive indeed, and is the best performing of the regular WD drive line. The 'Blue' series drives are the standard good drives for everyday use. (These are the only ones that come in both SATA 6 Gb/s and the older PATA 100 MB/s connection styles; all others are only SATA). The max. capacity for these is 1 TB. The 'Green' drives are focused on low energy consumption and therefore have lowest spin ratings (making them slower) but keep very cool & quiet. These go all the way up to 6 TB. The 'Purple' are designed for low spin use with ATA streaming & AllFrame technology designed with surveillance video footage recording in mind. These go up to 4 TB. The 'Red' series drives are designed for RAID array systems. These go all the way up to 6 TB. The 'Black' series are designed for the best performance for gamers and graphic artists with fast spin-rates, Vibration Control Technology (VCT) and Corruption Protection Technology (CPT) to prevent data loss in the case of power failure to the unit. These go up to 4 TB. The only drive that WD make faster and better than the Black series is the VelociRapter series with the fastest spin cycles and it's own custom vibration and cooling bracket. These are more triple the price on a GB-by-GB cost ratio. See Western Digital Velociraptor - 1TB Desktop SATA Hard Drive - OEM These "Black" drives are really the best of the regular series for high performance computing. I have mine installed as a bootable Windows OS main HDD, and it outperforms the previous drive, even though it was only a 200 GB drive. You'd think for so little space, verses a 1 TB drive, that the 200 GB drive would be faster as there's so much less space to have to scan. But the WD Black is as good with five times the capacity. It's very quiet and performs quickly with no read/write errors upon diagnostic scan tests. The packaging was satisfactory (not an original fancy box). It was in an anti-static bag, with plastic spacers on each end, that was in turn in a cardboard box that was then placed in another cardboard box with filler. One little tip: If your are replacing an old HDD that was MBR format, and intend to clone it to this drive, then format this new drive to MBR as well, not GPT (even though the latter is a better system) to prevent problems in the cloning. The 5 year warranty is a real bonus as well. Just go to the WD website and register the drive. Such a long warranty (the longest WD offer for a product; others being 2 or 3 years only) shows that they've really put a lot into making these units in a high quality manner giving peace-of-mind for your data. I would recommend these drives to anyone looking for the best drive, that's affordable, for high performance computing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great gaming drive with Western Digital's usual reliability
*by R***S on 19 April 2016*

These drives receive almost universally positive reviews, and my experience is no different. I'm using this as a games drive and it has given me many hours of happy gaming with zero issues. Installation is simple, using the standard 4 screw arrangement or whatever HDD mounting brackets may exist in your case. Plug in the SATA cable and it's ready to go. This replaced an old 5400rpm drive, and there is a noticeable performance improvement even though I have it connected to a SATA2 motherboard and can't experience the drive at full transfer speed (I'll upgrade eventually). Western Digital have a great reputation for reliability and a decent warranty so I'm expecting this drive to last for many years. I'll probably buy a couple more at some point, maybe for a RAID setup, or perhaps just to increase overall capacity.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A really fast and reliable drive.
*by K***X on 8 February 2026*

A really superb drive. I have the 1TB version. After 5 years of heavy use the drive is still in perfect working order. Not a sector out of place. The drive can hit nearly 200MB/s and that is plenty fast for me to write audio to it in real time in my DAW. It's CMR which helps. The later WD Blacks get mixed reviews - they are not all made equal, but this is a superstar and I'm confident to keep on using it in another system when I pull it to upgrade all my drives in this DAW.

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