Western Digital 8TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5640 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD80EFPX

I hate to review components like these until I've had them a long time, but now is probably the time for harddrive buying in general. First of all, to those who are wondering, no the 5640 RPM is not a typo. The official specs sheet says that's what it runs at. I think this helps it find a better balance between 5400 RPM power efficiency and 7200 RPM responsiveness. It claims to run cool and it does seem to do so. One lucky surprise is that it's quiet. A lot of larger harddrives intended for NAS or other RAID systems don't really try to be that quiet. According to the spec sheet it's officially 24dBA idle, 28dBA access. That's insane. I can't measure it with digital precision, but I can say it's one of the least annoying sounding drives I have used in a long time. Even many 5400 RPM 2.5" harddrives bother my ears these days (SSDs have spoiled me!) It doesn't seem to have quite the same "whoosh" sound of the actual platters spinning that normally bothers me if a drive is at all close enough to hear. (How did I survive harddrives in the 90s??? I don't know!) This thing is almost whisper quiet and putting my ear right up to it can still make it hard to hear. I think maybe the 5640 RPM contributes to this — likely it strikes a better balance in regards to sonic properties. My best guess is vibrations don't interfere with each other as much or something to that effect. And even the "grinding" when it's accessing data is quieter than most. I went ahead and wrote this review now in part because I just really want to emphasize how much quieter this drive is compared to most. As another piece of good news, this entire series is made with CMR — that is classic magnetic recording — rather than SMR (shingled magnetic recording.) A lot of larger drives in this sort of range use SMR because it's cheaper, but it also is significantly slower on any writes bigger than the cache size — which is probably going to be any decent sized transfers at all. I also see a lot of claims that SMR drives last significantly less actual usage hours (which might make sense since they must rewrite every single block that changes for even a small write.) Right now I have more confidence in a CMR drive to hold up past the 1.5 year mark that seems to come up a lot in reviews and complaints for SMR drives. Speeds did dip down to something like 160MB/s for the final average (instead of the 215MB/s in the specs) for a huge transfer operation, but all in all this drive strikes a lot of great balances. Only time will tell on reliability, but this is a good line.

The 10tb works great in my nas system, no heat, but I keep my nas well vented, so I don't notice any extra heat. Easy to install, helps my growing business.

Solid, reliable hard drives for a NAS or PC, easy installation just plug it in, format and use!

I've bought a number of these Red Plus and Red Pro drives. One of them failed on September 30. It took until October 21 to get an RMA and shipping label from Western Digital. The drive was received back by WD on October 24, but after ten days they still had not officially received it and I had to send them proof of delivery. They officially acknowledged receipt on November 6. Today, November 11, they have not started a replacement shipping order. I called to ask what was happening and was eventually told that in a day or so a shipping order will be raised, and then in another day or two, a disk will be sent out. So, maybe sometime next week it will arrive, making it a month and a half from requesting an RMA to getting a replacement. I don't know about you, but I've a degraded RAID in a NAS while waiting for this replacement drive. This will be six weeks or more from start to finish, and I've had to go through multiple frustrating calls with support people to drive it forward at every step. Totally unsatisfactory. I'm not so much blaming WD for the drive failing; these things sometimes happen. But for sure, their RMA/exchange process is appalling, and the funniest part was having their support rep, in of course an Indian accent, explain about their desire to provide excellent service. Six weeks to replace a failed drive is not excellent.

Drives arrived earlier than first indicated at checkout which was great. Testing on arrival showed that the drives had excellent health. Very happy with this purchase.

I do not review drives until they have had time to prove themselves and this one has been running in my NAS for over a year without a single issue. Quiet operation, consistent performance, and no errors in the logs. The Red Plus line is designed for NAS use and it shows in the reliability. Good drive at a fair price for the capacity.

I bought two of these to install in my DAS enclosure. One worked great and the other was DOA. I've bought 3 Blacks, 1 Purple in the past and now these 2 Reds and of the 6 total only 1 was DOA. Amazon's return is the best and having a Whole Foods near by makes it is easy to send things back. I wanted a DAS to save important files and needed two drives to mirror everything. I always go with Western Digital when it comes to mechanical drives and they work great if not DOA. They sit silent in my DAS until I accesses a file on them and I can hear them spin up. I have used this brand for many years and I am confident they will last a long time.

Easy setup, good capacity. A bit pricey but better than the unknown names out there.

I bought a pair of 10 TB drives and have used them in my NAS for more than 3 years now. Touch wood it is been a great experience.

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Ho acquistato questo hard disk per archiviare film e giochi. Certo non è veloce come un SSD, ma rispetto agli altri dischi meccanici ha 256MB di cache che lo velocizza parecchio. Il rumore è contenuto e non scalda. Western Digital è una marca seria e affidabile. Anche se l'uso consigliato è come elemento di unità RAID, quindi situazioni dove c'è una lettura/scrittura continua, io preferisco usarlo per effettuare miei backup e per parcheggiare collezioni di dischi audio, film, concerti, insomma come memorizzazione dati a lungo termine. Quello che mi ha fatto scegliere questo disco? La possibilità di avere in un'unica unità tutto quello che mi serve a un prezzo per Giga molto conveniente. Ricordatevi che UN SOLO disco non e' un backup, dovrete avere almeno DUE copie di quello che non volete assolutamente perdere (e possibilmente non nello stesso posto fisico). Ne comprerò presto un altro. PRO: GRANDISSIMO, NON C'E' (ANCORA) UN SSD COSI' GRANDE, NON E' TROPPO LENTO, E' CONVENIENTE CONTRO: NON E' UN SSD, COME DISCO PRINCIPALE CONVIENE USARE UN PIU' PICCOLO SSD

Like most PC gamers I made the swap to SSD/NVME some years back, and considered HDDs to be an obsolete technology. It was only when I decided to digitise my media library that I needed to go beyond the 4tb in flash I had installed. I spent a very long time looking at the 20-24tb drives such as the Exos/WD Gold/Toshiba 11 ranges but was put off by reports of noise. I remember the constant chatter of the drives of yore with some weariness so I researched the most quiet option instead. That led me here. The WD Red Plus (NOT the Red Pro,) specifically the 12tb model, is the perfect sound sweet spot. At 12tb WD fills the drives with helium instead of air and it has less spinning drive platters inside. The 14tb model is only marginally louder but is more expensive for if you want to double up in the future. I mounted in directly in my PC on a rubber mounted bracket and it is SILENT. When I say silent I really mean it. The PC is liquid cooled so it is whisper quiet. I can hear the TINIEST chatter (nothing like the 20/40gb models of the previous century) if I press my ear against the PC case during huge transfers, but I didn't even bother to setup a spin-down timer once I realised how silent it is. The speed? Almost irrelevant. This is for long term media storage, so the slow write times annoy you rarely, and the read times are instant for media files and laugh at even UHD bitrates with no lag. My main drives are Samsung 9100 NVMEs running PCI5 (fastest commercial drives on the market at time of review) and the WD Red hangs with them with no shame. The stats say they are less than 10% the speed of the NVMEs, but who's buying this as a boot drive? It's either going in a NAS or as a cold storage (long term, infrequent access) drive to compliment a faster boot drive. I almost knocked a star off because it is not the best value, but being as niche as it is (most people aren't buying spinning rust anymore) I can forgive that.

Product delivered is not a working piece Kindly give the number of the customer service so that i can contact for warranty claims