Western Digital storage, ranked by cost per terabyte
Seagate's great rival, with a colour-coded range covering every storage job from NAS to gaming. Compare every WD drive we track, sorted by real $/TB.
Western Digital organises its range by colour, which makes it unusually easy to navigate. WD Blue covers mainstream internal drives, Red, Red Plus and Red Pro target NAS (the Plus and Pro tiers use conventional CMR recording), Black is the performance and gaming line, Gold is enterprise, and Purple handles surveillance. On the flash side, WD_BLACK SN-series NVMe drives and Blue SATA SSDs cover solid-state, while My Passport and Elements externals are perennial favourites for shucking.
WD owns SanDisk, though we list that flash-focused brand separately. One thing worth knowing before you buy: some WD Red models historically shipped with SMR recording, which can stall RAID rebuilds — the Plus and Pro tiers are CMR and the safer NAS choice, and our CMR vs SMR guide explains how to tell them apart. WD Gold and recertified enterprise units are the value picks for bulk capacity. The catalog below is filtered to Western Digital and sorted by real cost per terabyte.
Every Western Digital product we track, by value
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