Review on 💾 WD Black Performance Internal Hard Drive HDD - 6TB, 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" Form Factor - WD6003FZBX by Tim Thomason

I have the OS on the SSD and files (media, documents, music) on the HDD. This solution offers fast boot times, lowers my costs, and allows me to work with the operating system and data separately—whether it's doing a clean reinstall of Windows every year or so, or replacing the hard drive with a larger one. There wasn't much space. on a Seagate 1.8TB and decided to upgrade to this WD Black 6TB. The exchange was relatively easy. I ran out of SATA cables/power cables in my setup. Opened connected to the DVD drive and stuck this drive. The first seemed to be DoA - it wasn't advertised. Revain was great as always and sent a replacement very quickly. The second worked great. Since it's over 2TB, Windows 10 didn't recognize it right away. I had to go to My Computer -> Manage -> Disk Management, set up the volume and put it online. I installed Clonezilla on USB, rebooted from USB and followed the instructions to clone my existing hard drive to a new one. After cloning with CloneZilla, it's important to unmount the old drive before reboot because it copies the same drive ID to the new drive and the operating system gets confused when it sees 2 drives with the same ID. It's done, the reboot is complete. Since CloneZilla clones as is, I could only see 1.8TB of the hard drive. Another visit to the same workstation -> Administrative Tools -> Disk Management, clicking Actions -> Rescan drives and I could see the remaining 6TB as unallocated. It was easy to expand the online volume to the entire drive to view the entire 6TB. The Crystal Disk Mark performance values are attached as a screenshot. Please note that I reduced the test to 100MB instead of 1GB.