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Western Digital Black Gen. 2 (WD4003FZEX) 4 TB Hard Disk Drive

Desktop power users on a budget will often pair an SSD boot drive with a cheap, spacious 5400+ RPM desktop drive like the 3 TB Western Digital Green (WD30EZRX). However, while the latest 5400+ RPM hard disk drives can deliver very good throughputs, they are still much slower in random accesses. So, those who can afford it will still go for high-performance 7,200 RPM hard disk drives, like the new-generation Western Digital Black hard disk drives.

The new-generation Western Digital Black family differs from the previous generation by its use of Advanced Format Technology, which allows for greater capacity and throughput. The new Western Digital Black family now consists of five models, which differ only in their storage capacities.

Now, let's take a closer look at this new big daddy of the WD Black family of hard disk drives!

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Model

• WD4003FZEX

Formatted Capacity

• 4,000,787 MB

Guaranteed Sectors

• 7,814,037,168

Bytes Per Sector

• 512 bytes (Emulated)

Platters

• 5 Platters (800 GB per platter)

Read/Write Heads

• 10 Read/Write Heads

Spindle Speed

• 7,200 RPM

Cache

• 64 MB DDR2 SDRAM

Internal Data Transfer Rate

• 171 MB/s

Average Seek

• NA

Average Latency

• NA

Drive Ready Time

• NA

Interface

• Serial ATA 6 Gb/s

Supported SATA Data Transfer Mode

• 6.0 Gbits/s
• 3.0 Gbits/s
• 1.5 Gbits/s

SATA Hotplug Capability

• Yes

Native Command Queuing

• Yes

Advanced Format Technology

• Yes

Maximum Height

• 26.1 mm (1.028 inches)

Maximum Width

• 101.6 mm (4.00 inches)

Maximum Length

• 147.0 mm (5.787 inches)

Maximum Weight

• 780 g (1.72 lbs)

Power Requirements

• +12V DC ± 10 %
• +5V DC ± 5 %

Power Consumption

• 9.5 W (Read / Write)
• 8.1 W (Idle)
• 1.3 W (Standby / Sleep)

Ambient Temperature

• 5 °C to 55 °C (Operating)
• -40 °C to 70 °C (Non-Operating)

Maximum Shock

• 65 G / 30 G @ 2 ms (Read / Write)
• 300 G @ 2 ms (Non-Operating)

Drive Acoustics

• 29 dBA average (Idle Mode)
• 34 dBA average (Quiet Seek Mode)

Non-Recoverable Read Errors

• 1 error per 1014 bits read

Load/Unload Cycles

• 300,000 minimum

MTBF

• 1 million hours

Warranty

• 5 Years Limited Warranty

 

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